Woodpole

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Woodpole, from 14 m² to 389,064 m² (38.91 ha, 96.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 · 78 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 18 Nov 2022Conditional

  development will consist of the following (1) To construct a part single storied, part one and a half storied type dwelling house (2) To convert an existing derelict vernacular type dwelling on the site for use as a home office, gym and domestic garage. This will include additional door opes and revision to an exisitng one (3) To close up 2 no. existing entrances to the site and to modify an existing entrance to form a combined entrance to serve the proposed development and also an adjacent site and development which is the subject of a seperate planning application (4) To install a properietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area (5) and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 221506

• 18 Nov 2022Conditional

  development will consist of the following (1) To construct a part single, part two storied type dwelling house and a detached domestic garage (2) To close up an existing entrance to the site and to modify and existing entrance to form a combined entrance to serve the proposed development and also an adjacent site and development which is the subject of a seperate planning application (3) To install a proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area (5) and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 221507

• 6 Jul 2021Conditional

  the proposed development will consist of; construct a storey and a half dwelling and detached domestic garage, form new entrance from public road, install waste water treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated site works. Significant Further information/Revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211294

• 4 Jun 2021N/a

  the proposed development will consist of; construct a storey and a half dwelling and detached domestic garage, form new entrance from public road, install waste water treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, 211094

• 1 Apr 2020Conditional

  provision of a two storey house with proprietary effluent treatment system & percolation area, a stand alone domestic garage, a vehicular entrance to the site and associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA200447

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
• Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232

Recorded monuments

• ME010-037 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in a col between slightly higher ground c. 100m to the N and c. 50m to the SW with lower ground to the NW and SE. It is depicted as a small embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a D-shaped hachured feature (dims c. 45m N-S; c. 25m E-W) truncated by a N-S field bank at E on the 1912 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It was recorded in 1968 (SMR file) as a subcircular overgrown area (dims c. 30m N-S; c. 23m E-W) defined by a scarp (at W: Wth 1.8m; H 0.5m). The visible monument had been removed by 2000 (OSAP). 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 revision: 22 February 2019

• ME010-043 Cist
  Description

  A short cist was discovered in October 1997 while landscaping a garden. The cist was disturbed but the original structure (dims c. 66m x c. 64m; H 0.3m) was constructed of at least four side-slabs with an oval capstone (dims 0.75m x 0.45m; T 0.1m), and it had a hard pebble clay floor. The contents of the cist had been disturbed and only a small quantity of cremated bone representing an adult female and a neonatal were recovered in addition to 15 fragments of a shouldered bowl with poorly executed comb-impressed decoration. (Cahill 2011) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 22 February 2019

• ME010-057 Burnt mound
  Description

  Situated on an E-facing slope with the NW-SE Blackwater River c. 200m to the E. Archaeological testing (E003641) by S. Rathbone (2007) of about 3 hectares required for the M3 development identified a burnt mound (excavations.ie 2007:1419) together with a pit and a gully which are within c. 30m of it. The mound (diam. c. 8m; T 0.2m) consisted of a spread of broken and burnt stone in a matrix of black clay and appeared in only one trench. About 30m to the S a single pit (diam. 1.1m) was filled with broken and burnt stone, and c. 10m further S a section of an E-W gully (L 10m; Wth 0.3m; D 0.07m) came to light which was also filled with broken and burnt stone. All the features are preserved in situ by being excluded from the works. (Rathbone 2007) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 January 2023 Rathbone, S. 2007 M3 Clonee – North of Kills Motorway Scheme. Proposed Borrow pit at Woodpole. Licence: E003641. Unpublished report, Archaeological Consultancy Services

Architectural heritage

• Jack's Bridge, bridge, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch railway bridge, built c.1863, now disused. Snecked rock-faced limestone ashlar walls and parapet. Segmental-arch opening with ashlar limestone voussoirs.

• Woodpole National School, school, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey former national school, built c.1850, now derelict. Roughcast rendered walls. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystack. Timber sash windows with stone sills. Projecting porch with timber battened door, timber barge boards and timber plaque. Some interior features remain. Bounded by roughcast rendered boundary walls with limestone copings.

• Woodpole National School, teacher's house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey former teacher's house, with attic accommodation, built c.1860, now derelict. Rendered walls. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystack and carved timber bargeboards to gable ends. Timber sash windows with render surrounds and stone sills. Projecting porch with cornice and timber panelled door flanked by sidelights. Some interior features remain. Stone outbuilding to site. Bounded by rendered walls having stone gate piers with cast-iron gates.

• Woodpole National School, school, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey former national school, built c.1860, now derelict. Rendered rubble limestone walls, with some ashlar quoins visible. Pitched slate roof with timber eaves board and carved timber bargeboards to gable ends. Square-headed opening with stone lintels and sills. Timber sheet door with ashlar limestone surround.

• Woodpole Bridge, bridge, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch railway bridge, built c.1863, now disused. Snecked rock-faced limestone walls and parapet. Segmental-arch with ashlar limestone to arch ring.

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 Woodpole, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Woodpole with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Woodpole

Area

1,384,504 m² (138.45 ha, 342.12 acres)

Civil parish

Loughan or Castlekeeran, and its townlands

Barony

Kells Upper

Electoral division

Castlekeeran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

513 people lived in 169 households in the Castlekeeran electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carnaross, Castlekeeran, Killaconin or Jonesborough, Meenlagh, Pottlebane, Rahendrick

Placenames

Woodpole 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.