Braystown

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Braystown, from 2,276 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) to 217,340 m² (21.73 ha, 53.71 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.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 29 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 8 Aug 2022Conditional

  a new single storey dwelling, associated double garage and carport, opening of a new vehicular entrance to site and septic tank and percolation area together with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 221037

• 23 Apr 2021Conditional

  the construction of a dormer bungalow including a waste water treatment unit and percolation area and a new entrance onto the public road

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21773

• 26 Feb 2019Conditional

  (a) Construction of agricultural cubicle shed with underground slatted slurry storage tank (b) Construction of Silage Pits and (c) Construction of an over-ground circular slurry store and underground reception tank and all associated siteworks. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, LB190200

• 5 Sept 2018Conditional

  retention permission for dwelling with basement and storage space at first floor level and change of site layout. Permission was originally granted under Planning Ref. No. 95/453

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, LB181026

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 Braystown.

Recorded monuments

• ME018-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located in a fairly level landscape and c. 25m S of a NW-SE section of a small W-E stream. This is a slightly raised, circular and overgrown area (diam. 24m N-S; 22m WNW-ESE) defined by an earthen bank (at W: Wth of base 5.2m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.5m; at S: Wth of base 6.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.8m) frequently reduced to an external scarp (at N: Wth 3.5m; H 1.4m) and a small fosse (Wth of top 7.5-9.5m; Wth of base 2-2.9m; ext. D 0.6-0.85m). There is a modern entrance at W, but the original entrance is not identified. 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 Revised: 24 March 2023 Raised circular area defined by slight bank (diam. 25m) with external fosse. Original entrance cannot be determined

• ME018-043 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the summit of a hill. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (dima. c. 30m) defined by a single fosse feature (Wth c. 3m) with an entrance gap (Wth c. 5m) at SE was recorded by Justin Kenny using a drone-mounted camera in July 2018. Rath (ME018-044001-) and ring-ditch (ME018-044002-) are c. 100 and c. 80m to the S and SSE respectively. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 March, 2019

• ME018-044001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a S-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) defined by a single fosse feature (Wth c. 2m) with an entrance gap (Wth c. 4) at S was recorded by Justin Kenny using a drone-mounted camera in July 2018. The ring-ditch (ME018-044002-) is c. 15m to the NE and rath (ME018-043----) is c. 100m to the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 March, 2019

• ME018-044002 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated on a S-facing slope. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (diam. c. ) defined by a single fosse feature (Wth c. 10m) was recorded by Justin Kenny using a drone-mounted camera in July 2018. Rath (ME018-044001-) is c. 15m to the SW and rath (ME018-043----) is c. 80m to the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 March, 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Braystown, 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 Braystown.

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

Name

Braystown

Area

728,665 m² (72.87 ha, 180.06 acres)

Civil parish

Gernonstown, and its townlands

Barony

Slane Upper

Electoral division

Stackallan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

751 people lived in 230 households in the Stackallan electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Davidstown, Faganstown, Gernonstown, Tankardstown

Placenames

Braystown 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.