Cookstown

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cookstown, from 976 m² to 390,910 m² (39.09 ha, 96.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 · 24 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 22 Dec 2023Conditional

  retention permission for (1) the construction of a 2 bedroom single storey extension, used as a "granny flat" to the side of existing dormer style family dwelling (2) the construction of 2 no. domestic storage sheds to side and rear of dwelling respectively (3) all ancillary site works. Planning permission for upgrade of existing trenched percolation area to a soil polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 231161

• 9 Aug 2023Conditional

  permission to amend the design of the approved development (Planning Reference: RA/170873) which comprises consent for a ten-year planning permission for a photovoltaic solar farm. Proposed amendments include: an increase in CCTV Cameras from 21 to 107, and the introduction of 4 new Weather Stations

  Permission · Meath County Council, 23787

• 18 Jul 2023N/a

  to amend the design of the approved development (Planning Reference: RA/170873) which comprises consent for a ten-year planning permission for a photovoltaic solar farm. Proposed amendments include: an increase in CCTV Cameras from 21 to 107, and the introduction of 4 new Weather Stations

  Permission · Meath County Council, 23718

• 15 May 2023Refused

  alterations and extension to the garage attached to our dwelling house to provide a two bed room Granny Flat and all associated site works and retention of small storage shed to the side of the Granny Flat

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 23511

• 24 Apr 2023N/a

  alterations and extension to the garage attached to our dwelling house to provide a two bed room "Granny Flat" and all associated site works and retention of small storage shed to the side of the Granny Flat

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 23445

• 16 Mar 2023N/a

  alterations and extension to the garage attached to our dwelling house to provide a two bed room "Granny Flat" and all associated site works and retention of small storage shed to the side of the "Granny Flat"

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 23284

• 2 Sept 2021Conditional

  permission to construct a part two storey, part single storey dwelling house, detached garage, new entrance from the public road, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new well, and all associated site development works. Significant Further information/Revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211708

• 7 Feb 2019Conditional

  permission to construct a single storey domestic garage to the rear of existing dwelling house and all associated site development works

  Permission · Meath County Council, RA190115

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 Cookstown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cookstown.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cookstown, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cookstown

Area

929,253 m² (92.93 ha, 229.62 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymaglassan, and its townlands

Barony

Ratoath

Electoral division

Culmullin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,283 people lived in 379 households in the Culmullin electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Glebe, Growtown, Lismahon, Moyleggan, Rathregan, Roanstown, Vesingstown

Placenames

Cookstown 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.