Irishtown
Irishtown is a townland in the civil parish of Kilbride, barony of Dunboyne, Co. Meath.
Parcel 213952
- Area
- 1,417 m²
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- P5 RA - Rural Area (Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied)) The objective
- Townland
- Irishtown
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 20 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 64.4 ha
- 159 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 2,894 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Irishtown, from 507 m² to 491,537 m² (49.15 ha, 121.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 35 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
31 Mar 2026N/a
the development will consist of: 1) demolition of existing single storey warehouse (Shed 1), 2) construction of single storey warehouse with covered loading area (Shed 2), 3) demolition of existing single storey storage shed (Shed 3), 4) demolition of existing bunded storage area walls, 4) construction of single storey detached warehouse incorporating loading ramp and staff facilities (Shed 5), 6) all ancillary and facilitating site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2660361
31 Aug 2018Conditional
the demolition of existing shed to rear of existing house and Construction of a new dormer extension and single storey garage to the rear of the existing house. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission · Meath County Council, AA181006
12 Jul 2017Refused
construction of a dwelling, installation of a waste water treatment unit with percolation area and vehicular entrance with associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, AA170812
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Irishtown.
Recorded monuments
- ME051-014 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a level landscape. The cropmark of a large oval enclosure (dims c. 75m N-S; c. 50m E-W) defined by a single fosse is visible on a Digital Globe image (2011-2013) with elements of an unmapped field system extending off to the E. It was first reported by T. Condit. See the attached enhanced view from Digital Globe Compiled by: David O’Connor Date of upload: 1 November 2013 Amended: 5 November 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Irishtown.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Irishtown, about 1 in 20 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 Irishtown.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Irishtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Irishtown
- Area
- 643,705 m² (64.37 ha, 159.06 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbride, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunboyne
- Electoral division
- Donaghmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 14,217 people lived in 4,598 households in the Donaghmore electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymacarney, Baytown, Coolatrath East (Co. Dublin), Coolquoy (Co. Dublin), Coolquoy Common (Co. Dublin), Mabestown, Ward Lower (Co. Dublin)
- Placenames
- Irishtown 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.