Herbertstown

89 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Herbertstown, from 25 m² to 406,021 m² (40.6 ha, 100.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 128 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 18 Aug 2026N/a

  the development consists of the retention of existing stables and office and yard and permission for the construction of a story and a half dwelling and new wastewater treatment system and percolation area to the rear of the property and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 26194

• 9 Jan 2026Conditional

  The construction of an agricultural shed to include dairy, milking facilities, straw bedded area, cubicles, feeding area, underground slatted slurry and soiled water tanks, erection of silage pit and meal bin, septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2660047

• 30 Oct 2025N/a

  The construction of an agricultural shed to include dairy, milking facilities, straw bedded area, cubicles, feeding area, underground slatted slurry and soiled water tanks, erection of silage pit and meal bin, septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works within existing farm yard and using existing farm yard entrance.

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2561167

• 20 Oct 2025Conditional

  the retention of the existing vehicular access, gates, entrance piers, & driveway to the northwest corner of the existing family home

  Retention · Meath County Council, 2561123

• 29 Sept 2025N/a

  the retention of the existing vehicular access, gates, entrance piers, & driveway to the northwest corner of the existing family home

  Retention · Meath County Council, 2561037

• 31 Mar 2025Conditional

  (i) Retention Permission is sought for a septic tank and associated percolation area; (ii) Permission is sought for the demolition of the existing roof, chimney, 1no gate pier, rear attached outbuilding and rear detached outbuilding, (iii) 2no. proposed rooflights to the existing rear roof, (iv) Single storey rear extension, (v) New electric sliding vehicular gate, widened vehicular entrance and new gate pier, (vi) New roof to replace existing and all associated site works

  Retention · Meath County Council, 2560320

• 23 Oct 2023Conditional

  the re-contouring of agricultural land and associates site works using imported clean inert soil and stones within a farm holding for the consequential benefit to agriculture. A 5 year planning permission is requested and during this period 74,863 tonnes of inert soil and stones will be imported for the purposes of land reclamation. Planning permission was previously granted under planning ref no AA/200461 for a similar project on lands adjacent to the subject site. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, 23997

• 6 Jul 2023Refused

  retention of existing vehicular access, gates & driveway to northwest corner of existing family home

  Retention · Meath County Council, 2360147

• 14 Apr 2023N/a

  a detached outbuilding to side of existing dwelling to provide a car port, home office & games room ancillary to the dwelling

  Permission · Meath County Council, 23410

• 23 Mar 2023Conditional

  new agricultural entrance gate, close existing agricultural entrance gate and all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 23313

• 2 Nov 2022Refused

  the re-contouring of agricultural land and associates site works using imported clean inert soil and stones within a farm holding for the consequential benefit to agriculture. A 5-year planning permission is requested, and during this period 74,863 tonnes of inert soil and stones will be imported for the purposes of land reclamation. Planning permission was previously granted under planning ref. no. AA/200461 for a similar project on lands adjacent to the subject site. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, 221431

• 4 Oct 2022N/a

  the re-contouring of agricultural land and associates site works using imported clean inert soil and stones within a farm holding for the consequential benefit to agriculture. A 5-year planning permission is requested, and during this period 74,863 tonnes of inert soil and stones will be imported for the purposes of land reclamation. Planning permission was previously granted under planning ref. no. AA/200461 for a similar project on lands adjacent to the subject site

  Permission · Meath County Council, 221304

• 26 Jan 2022Conditional

  an extension to rear of existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2284

• 27 Oct 2021Refused

  a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, vehicular entrance onto laneway via existing field gate, waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 212070

• 19 Aug 2021Refused

  agricultural entrance gate and all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 211607

• 23 Jun 2021N/a

  permission sought for dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, access to site via agricultural entrance gate, granted ref. no: AA/180237 and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211218

• 19 Nov 2020Conditional

  a dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, AA201741

• 11 Nov 2020Refused

  dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, access to site via agricultural entrance gate, granted ref no: AA/180237 and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, AA201678

• 15 Apr 2020Conditional

  permission sought for dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, detached domestic Garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, AA200520

• 3 Apr 2020Conditional

  the re-contouring of agricultural land and associated site works using imported clean inert soil and stones within a farmholding for the consequential benefit to agriculture. A 3 year planning permission is requested and during this period 24,690 tonnes of inert soil and stones will be imported for the purpose of land reclamation

  Permission · Meath County Council, AA200461

• 26 Jun 2019Refused

  re-contouring of agricultural land and associates site works using imported clean inert soil and stones within a farm holding for the consequential benefit to agriculture. A 3-year planning permission is requested, and during this period 24,690 tonnes of inert soil and stones will be imported for the purposes of land reclamation

  Permission · Meath County Council, AA190842

• 7 Jun 2019N/a

  re-contouring of agricultural land and associates site works using imported clean insert soil and stones within a farm holding for the consequential benefit to agriculture. A 3-year planning permission is requested, and during this period 24,690 tonnes of inert soil and stones will be imported for the purposes of land reclamation

  Permission · Meath County Council, AA190721

• 18 Jan 2019Conditional

  an agricultural shelter housing forestry equipment. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Retention · Meath County Council, AA190036

• 11 Jan 2019N/a

  an agricultural shelter housing forestry eguipment

  Retention · Meath County Council, AA190010

• 23 Oct 2018Refused

  A. Detached two storey dormer bungalow, B. Waste water treatment system, C. All associated site works on site. Significant Further informaiton / Revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, AA181252

The 25 most recent of 31 applications.

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 Herbertstown.

Recorded monuments

• ME033-036 Mound
  Description

  The following 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. Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007 Natural rock outcrop to which earthen mantle has been added creating flat-topped mound with a flat-bottomed fosse at its base SE-WSW and accommodated by road W-E (diam. of top 12m, diam. of base c. 24m, H c. 4m).

• ME033-054 Enclosure
  Description

  A roughly circular enclosure visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Compiled by: David O’Connor

• ME033-055 Enclosure
  Description

  A circular enclosure with an outer ring visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Adjacent to square shaped enclosure ME033-056----. Both sites are within a much larger oval enclosure (ME033-057----). Compiled by: David O’Connor Date of upload: 1 November 2013

• ME033-056 Enclosure
  Description

  A square shaped enclosure visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Adjacent to circular enclosure ME033-055----, located to the west. Both sites are within a much larger oval enclosure (ME033-057----). Compiled by: David O’Connor Date of upload: 1 November 2013

• ME033-057 Enclosure
  Description

  Large oval shaped enclosure, partially extant to the east but principally visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Contains enclosures ME033-055---- & ME033-056--- within. Compiled by: David O’Connor Date of upload: 1 November 2013

• ME034-002 Souterrain
  Description

  The following 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. Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007 Entered through passage going S. After 2m passage turns E for 10m and S for 25m, terminating in beehive chamber. Hearth found near entrance. (NMI file)

• ME034-004 Mound
  Description

  Situated on the summit of the ENE-WSW Fourknocks ridge. This is a circular grass-covered earthen mound (diam. of top 8m N-S; diam. of base 37m N-S; H 5.4-5.6m) surrounded by a berm (Wth 14-20m) defined by a stone-faced scarp (H 1.1-1.2m) or a ditch (at S: Wth of top 2.5m; ext. D 0.4m). The mound probably encloses a passage tomb, but the berm and ditch are a haha that was constructed in the eighteenth century to keep cattle away from the gazebo on top of the mound. The gazebo was built by the Caddells of Herbertstown House, pronounced locally as ‘Harbourstown’, when the House was built c. 1740-1780 at the N foot of the hill. The Caddells had been living at the White Castle (ME034-010----) in the Naul until they lost much of their property during the Cromwellian period. However, they managed to retain or regain some of it including Herbertstown, even though they remained Roman Catholics. The gazebo, known locally as Caddell’s Folly, is said to have been built by a Richard Caddell so that he could see the races at Bellewstown c. 5km to the N after he fell out with the race organisers. The gazebo is a hexagonal structure (ext. diam. 6.7m) that was built of dressed limestone walls (T c. 0.7m; H 7.3m) with brick around the internal embrasures. There is a lintelled doorway with a fanlight overhead at ENE but each of the other facets has a large round-headed window opening (H 3m) that permitted wide views over the countryside. The roof is now gone but there is a balustrade above that according to photographs in the Irish Architectural Archive once had urns mounted on it at the angles. The gazebo was brought to attention by Ian Lennon. (Reilly 1999) 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: 10 July 2007 Amended: 25 May 2023 Reilly, N. 1999 Herbertstown House. Drogheda Independent, 29/10/1999

• ME034-005 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  The following 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. Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007 Circular mound (diam. 21m, H 1.8m). (PRIA 1957, 265, No. 12)

• ME034-023 Ring-ditch
  Description

  A circular ring-ditch visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Compiled by: David O’Connor Date of upload: 1 November 2013

• ME034-024 Field system
  Description

  An extensive field system visible as crop marks on an aerial photograph (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Compiled by: David O’Connor Date of upload: 1 November 2013

• ME034-025 Enclosure
  Description

  An irregular shaped enclosure visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Compiled by: David O’Connor Date of upload: 1 November 2013

• ME034-030001 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Located towards the top of a N-facing summit at the E end of the ENE-WSW Fourknocks ridge. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 5m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on Google Earth (24/06/2018). It is also visible on Digital Globe. The ring-ditch (ME034-030002-) is c. 10m to the E. It was first reported to the National Monuments Service by Anthony Murphy. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 February 2019

• ME034-030002 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Located towards the top of a N-facing summit at the E end of the ENE-WSW Fourknocks ridge. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 3-4m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on Google Earth (24/06/2018). The ring-ditch (ME034-030002-) is c. 10m to the W. It was first reported to the National Monuments Service by Anthony Murphy. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 20 February 2019

• ME034-034 Enclosure
  Description

  Located at the crest of the S-facing slope of the ENE-WSW Fourknocks ridge. An oval enclosure (dims c. 70m NE-SW; c. 45m NW-SE) defined by a wide fosse (Wth c. 4-5m) is visible on Google Earth (17/10/2017; 25/06/2018). It is also visible on Digital Globe c. 2013 and Apple Maps, and it may have been an ornamental wood on the demesne of Herbertstown House. It was first reported by Ian Lennon. See the attached views from Google Earth _1 (25/06/2018); _3 (17/10/2017) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 December 2020

• ME034-035 Architectural fragment
  Description

  Located towards the top of the SE-facing slope of Snowtown Hill at the E end of the Fourknocks ridge. Three pieces of dressed stone that might be Dundry are built into a masonry wall at a water trough. One has a chamfered edge that may have come from a window or doorway surround, and there are two small capitals with stiff leaf decoration that may have come from attached pilasters of a reredos. They are probably of thirteenth century date, but where they came from originally is not known. They were first reported by Ian Lennon. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 March 2021

Architectural heritage

• Herbertstown House, belvedere, gazebo, 1750–1755 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-bay double-height belvedere or gazebo, built 1754, on a hexagonal plan. Now in ruins. Roof now missing. Limestone ashlar walls on limestone ashlar chamfered plinth with ogee-detailed cornice below balustraded parapet. Round-headed door opening (east) with broken threshold, cut-limestone lugged doorcase with ogee-detailed hood moulding on blind frieze. Round-headed window openings below cut-limestone panels. Interior in ruins. Set on mound in grounds originally shared with Herbertstown House.

• Herbertstown House, farmyard complex, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, built 1820, including (west): Detached seven-bay single-storey stable block with half-attic on a symmetrical plan centred on single-bay full-height pedimented breakfront. Now in ruins. Roof now missing with no rainwater goods surviving on cut-limestone eaves. Part ivy-covered rubble stone walls with remains of cut-limestone monolithic pediment (breakfront). Elliptical-headed central carriageway with cut-limestone voussoirs. Square-headed door openings with cut-limestone voussoirs. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and cut-limestone voussoirs. Set in overgrown grounds originally shared with Herbertstown House with margined tooled limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having "Cavetto"-detailed beaded cornices below capping supporting spear head-detailed cast-iron double gates.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Herbertstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Herbertstown

Area

3,293,123 m² (329.31 ha, 813.75 acres)

Civil parish

Stamullin, and its townlands

Barony

Duleek Upper

Electoral division

Stamullin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Stamullin electoral division: 5,471 people in 1,655 households; 88% of households own their home; 61% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clinstown, Damselstown, Fourknocks, Gibblockstown, Hodgestown, Micknanstown, Naul, Saddlestown, Tullog

Placenames

Herbertstown 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.