Ardcath

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardcath, from 77 m² to 321,023 m² (32.1 ha, 79.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 41 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 26 Jun 2026N/a

  a) Demolition of the existing sub-standard, G-BER rated, detached and derelict 1 and 2-storey dwelling. b) The construction of a replacement A-BER rated, detached, 1 and 2-storey dwelling and garage, with the dwelling offset by 2m from the existing dwelling’s roadside building line, within the same site. c) The continued use of the two existing vehicular entrances. d) An EPA compliant Waste Water Treatment System to replace the existing septic tank system. e) All associated site-works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2660796

• 6 Nov 2025Conditional

  Planning permission for installation of new waste water treatment system and percolation area, decommissioning of existing septic tank and associated site works. Retention permission for single storey extensions to side and rear of existing single storey dwelling and as-built alterations to original Planning Permission granted (Ref: 70/286).

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2561205

• 5 Aug 2025Conditional

  the development consists of construction of a part two storey, part single storey detached dwelling, detached single storey domestic garage, new vehicular entrance onto public roadway, driveway, waste water treatment system, percolation area, landscaping and associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2560821

• 2 Sept 2024Conditional

  the development will consist of construction of farmyard complex to include slatted cattle shed, cattle handling area and crush, dry cattle shed, straw storage area, feed / machinery store, silage and maize pit, effluent tanks and concrete yard area. The development also includes new internal access roadway to connect with the existing access road and entrance to Boyne Valley Meats and all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460698

• 16 Aug 2024N/a

  the development will consist of construction of farmyard complex to include slatted cattle shed, cattle handling area and crush, dry cattle shed, straw storage area, feed / machinery store, silage and maize pit, effluent tanks and concrete yard area. The development also includes new internal access roadway to connect with the existing access road and entrance to Boyne Valley Meats and all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460653

• 8 Dec 2023Conditional

  the construction of a double ESB MV Sub Station

  Permission · Meath County Council, 231114

• 10 Nov 2023N/a

  the construction of a double ESB MV Sub Station

  Permission · Meath County Council, 231047

• 11 Oct 2023N/a

  EXTENSION OF DURATION OF PLANNING PERMISSION AA/191516 - Re-contouring of agricultural land and associated site works using imported clean inert soil and stones within a farm holding of 2.626 hectares (plus the additional access roadway of 0.211 hectares) for the consequent6ial benefit to agriculture. A 2 year planning permission is requested, and during this period 24,773 tonnes of inert soil and stones will be imported for the purposes of land reclamation

  Extension of duration · Meath County Council, 23968

• 10 Feb 2023Refused

  construction of farm yard complex including cattle slatted shed, cattle handling area and crush, dry cattle shed, straw storage, feed store, machinery store, silage and maize pit, effluent tanks and concrete yard. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, 23126

• 8 Sept 2020Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, a new waste water treatment plant and percolation area including all associated site works and new site entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, AA201238

• 28 May 2020Conditional

  a storey and a half style dwelling, advanced waste water treatment system and percolation area, new entrance walls and piers and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, AA200663

• 20 Jul 2017Conditional

  construction of a detached single storey dwelling with habitable attic accommodation, a detached single storey storage shed, new site entrance, proprietary waste water treatment system & all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, AA170847

• 27 Mar 2017Conditional

  the development will consist of the construction of a detached 1 1/2 storey dwelling, new site entrance, proprietary waste water treatment system & all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, AA170309

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 the townland of Ardcath.

Recorded monuments

• ME033-009 Church
  Description

  Situated at the crest of a N-facing slope. A church at Ardcath is listed in the ecclesiastical taxation (1302-06) of Pope Nicholas IV (Cal. doc. Ire. 5, 253). There was a chantry attached, and the names of some of the clergy are known (Cogan 1862-70, 1, 333-5). Ussher (1622) describes the church as repaired and the chancel as ruined (Erlington 1847-64, 1, lxv). According to the Dopping (1682-5) and the Royal visitations (1693) the church was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The church and chancel were roofless at that time, although the graveyard was well fenced (Ellison 1971, 35). The parish church of Ardcath is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 90m ENE-WSW; c. 50m NNW-SSE) defined by masonry walls, with a low bank inside the perimeter at N, and headstones dating from c. 1750 to the present. This is a divided nave (ext. dims 21.05m; E-W; 7.8m N-S; int. dims 19.6m E-W; 6m N-S) and chancel (ext. dims 15.15m E-W; 7m N-S; int. dims 13.35m E-W; 5.24m N-S) structure which survives almost complete with good quoins and putlog-holes in the walls. There are opposing pointed limestone doorways in the N (Wth 1.18m; H 2.2m) and S (Wth 1.4m; H 1.77m plus) walls, which are probably inserted, with external hollow chamfers. The doorways are situated just W of the centre of the long nave walls. The W wall has a single blocked embrasure which preserves a large window (H c. 1.5m) with external chamfers. The church had no belfry but one is inserted in the W gable over the blocked window and its bell is thought to pre-date the Reformation (Cogan 1, 334-5). There is a round-headed light (Wth 0.23m; H 0.8m) in a lintelled embrasure just W of the S doorway and a destroyed window towards the E end of the S wall. The N wall has a small trefoil-headed light (Wth 0.23m; H 0.95m) towards the E end with a small light over it, which are the only indication of a rood screen. The pointed chancel arch (Wth 3.53m) has plain piers (Wth 1.07m) and voussoirs. The N wall of the chancel has a single tall but destroyed window towards the W end and an aumbry at the E end. The S wall has three tall sandstone windows with evidence of glazing grooves and bars surviving only on the most westerly (Wth 0.5m), and a round-headed doorway (Wth 0.85m; H 1.75m) in limestone between the second and third windows from the E. The large E window (Wth 2.27m) was probably of three lights but its tracery is missing. Nevertheless, it has been dated to the 14th century (Leask 1960, 2, 145) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 9 February 2015

• ME033-009001 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated at the crest of a N-facing slope. The parish church of Ardcath (ME033-009----) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 90m ENE-WSW; c. 50m NNW-SSE) defined by masonry walls, with a low bank inside the perimeter at N. The headstones date from c. 1750 to the present. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 February, 2015

• ME033-050 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Located in a field known as the Castle field (http://www.meathfieldnames.com/index.php/database-and-mapping) on the broad summit of Ardcath Hill. There is no record of a castle at Ardcath, but according to the Civil Survey (1654-6) Roger ffinglass of Ardcath and Thomas Dillon of Balgeeth owned 180 acres there and the premises inclueded ‘a farme house and a church’ (Simington 1940, 27). Fragments of the building were uncovered in the 1920s during quarrying activity which is described in the Schools Manuscript Collection (1938). The Castle field is marked on a map of Ardcath, by Thomas Farrell (1899) (pers. comm. Mr Colin Byrne, Briarleas, County Meath), but at present its precise location is not known. Compiled by Geradine Stout Date of upload: 13/03/2012

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardcath.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Ardcath, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ardcath.

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.

No address of the register names Ardcath with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Ardcath · Ard Cath

Area

1,158,757 m² (115.88 ha, 286.34 acres)

Civil parish

Ardcath, and its townlands

Barony

Duleek Upper

Electoral division

Ardcath, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,119 people lived in 721 households in the Ardcath electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balgeeth, Cloghan, Coolfore, Fennor, Irishtown, Maryland, Micknanstown, Porterstown, Rath

Placenames

Ardcath 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.