Stokestown
Stokestown is a townland in the civil parish of Dunboyne, barony of Dunboyne, Co. Meath.
Parcel 148005
- Area
- 46,864 m² (4.69 ha, 11.58 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- P5 RA - Rural Area (Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied)) The objective
- Townland
- Stokestown
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2998 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 85.6 ha
- 212 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 3,363 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Stokestown, from 193 m² to 284,981 m² (28.5 ha, 70.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 50 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1E2/E3 - General Enterprise and Employment/ Warehousing and Distribution (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
1 Dec 2025Conditional
the development will consist of recessing and reconstructing the existing timber vehicular entrance in stone with metal gates to the front of the property along with all site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2561296
17 Nov 2025N/a
the development will consist of recessing and reconstructing the existing timber vehicular entrance in stone with metal gates to the front of the property along with all site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2561235
16 Jan 2025Conditional
(REF 22175) a detached two-storey dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, new vehicular entrance gateway, setting back of the existing hedgerows to the public road as necessary, access and internal link roads, along with all associated services, service connections, landscaping and site development works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2560052
13 Sept 2024Conditional
the proposed development will consist of an application for a 10-year planning permission for the construction of, and a 40 year operation and subsequent decommissioning of, a development consisting of a 215 hectare solar farm (red line boundary). The solar farm comprises of two separate land parcels divided by local roads. The proposed solar farm will consist of a series of ground mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, mounted on steel support structures and in some areas on concrete shoes to protect possible underground archaeological features, together with 28 electrical transformation enclosures, underground cabling, 2 no. temporary construction compounds, the use of existing farm access tracks and existing site entrances, inverters, CCTV poles and cameras, deer type security/boundary fencing with some areas of boundary development on concrete shoes to further protect possible underground archaeological features, landscaping and biodiversity measures and all associated ancillary development works, for the purpose of generating renewable energy electricity and transmitting it in the townlands of Ballymacoll Little, Boolies, Nuttstown, Ballintry, Belgree, Rowan and Kinoristown, Co. Meath. A Natura Impact Statement will also be submitted to the Planning Authority with this application. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission · Meath County Council, 2460742
11 Jul 2023Conditional
to construct a part storey and a half, part single storey dwelling house, detached garage, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 23699
11 Feb 2022Conditional
for a detached two storey dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, new vehicular entrance gateway, setting back of the existing hedgerows to the public road as necessary, access and internal link roads, along with all associate services, service connections, landscape and site development works. If successful this application will revoke permission RA 191117 previously granted to the applicant at Whitesland, Dunboyne, Co. Meath.
Outline permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22175
10 Jun 2020Refused
a detached two storey dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment unit and percolation area, new vehicular entrance gateway, setting back of the existing hedgerow to the public road as necessary, access road, along with all associated services, service connections, landscape and site development works. If successful this application will revoke permission RA191117 previously granted to the applicant at Whitesland, Dunboyne. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Outline permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, RA200721
19 Jul 2019Refused
to construct proposed single storey private residence and detached domestic garage, install proposed wastewater treatment system and percolation area, construct new entrance onto main road, including all ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, RA190958
15 Sept 2017Conditional
two storey dwelling, domestic garage, internal entrance off existing entrance and driveway previously granted permission under planning reference no DA/110798. The development also includes the installation of a proprietary waste water treatment system and polishing filter, internal access to agricultural lands and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, RA171082
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Stokestown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Stokestown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Stokestown.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Stokestown, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2998 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Stokestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Stokestown
- Area
- 856,175 m² (85.62 ha, 211.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dunboyne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunboyne
- Electoral division
- Dunboyne, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 10,698 people lived in 3,434 households in the Dunboyne electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymagillin, Caulstown, Kinoristown, Normansgrove, Nuttstown, Pace, Portmanna, Rowan, Whitesland
- Placenames
- Stokestown on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.