Rathcarstown

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathcarstown, from 72 m² to 86,550 m² (8.65 ha, 21.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 · 36 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 19 Mar 2026Conditional

  the development consists of the retention of attic conversion comprising 3 rooms and ensuite bathroom, internal alterations and stairs to attic, sunroom extension at rear of house, window/door openings on side elevation at ground and first floor level, 6 roof windows at rear of house, and all assocated works

  Retention · Meath County Council, 2689

• 4 Mar 2026N/a

  the retention of internal alterations and stairs to attic rooms, sunroom extenstion at rear of house, elevational alterations, and all associated works

  Retention · Meath County Council, 2680

• 5 Jul 2019Refused

  a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, vehicular entrance & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, AA190887

• 14 Jun 2017Conditional

  split level dwellinghouse, detached garage, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, AA170679

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 Rathcarstown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rathcarstown.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rathcarstown, 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 Rathcarstown.

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

Name

Rathcarstown

Area

492,314 m² (49.23 ha, 121.65 acres)

Civil parish

Clonalvy, and its townlands

Barony

Duleek Upper

Electoral division

Stamullin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Davidstown, Flemingtown, Grange, Hammondstown, Tankardstown

Placenames

Rathcarstown 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.