Grangend Common

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grangend Common, from 463 m² to 199,338 m² (19.93 ha, 49.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 · 18 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2A1 - Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 23 Jul 2025Conditional

  EXTENSION OF DURATION OF PLANNING PERMISSION 2560158 - Strategic Housing Development (Subsequently amended under MCC Reg. Ref. 25/60158) for the development of 190 no. units, creche, public open spaces and associated works. Please refer to the Planning Letter for full development description

  Extension of duration, 15 homes · Meath County Council, 25134

• 19 Feb 2025Conditional

  The proposed Large Scale Residential Development (LRD) will consist of amendments to the Strategic Housing Development (SHD) permitted on site under Ref. ABP-307244-20 for 211 no. residential units (112 no. two storey houses and 99 no. apartments in 6 no. blocks), creche and associated works. This amendment application seeks to omit permitted apartment Blocks D and E (comprising 36 no. units) and replace with 15 no. 3 bed houses, resulting in a revised residential development of 190 units in total. Omission of permitted access road from the permitted Distributor Road to the east and associated amendments to residential car parking and provision of additional open spaces. All other site works including boundary treatments, landscaping and site services to facilitate development. The remainder of the development to be carried out in accordance with the parent permission Ref. ABP-307244-20

  Permission, 15 homes · Meath County Council, 2560158

• 28 May 2020Conditional

  Demolition of 2 no. derelict buildings (former houses) at the northern boundary of the site. Construction of 212 no. dwellings comprising: 113 no. 2 no. storey houses comprising 21 no. 4-bed and 92 no. 3-bed; 99 no. apartments in 6 no. 3-4 storey blocks comprising 6 no. 1-bed, 90 no. 2-bed and 3 no. 3-bed; All with associated private gardens/ balconies/ terraces to the north/ south/ east/ west elevations; Construction of a creche (c.396.22sq.m); Construction of a c.250m section of the Dunshaughlin (East) Main Distributor Road; Construction of a new verge, path and cycle lane along the R125 with the road realigned to create a new street; Provision of vehicular entrances from the R125, with additional vehicular access from the new distributor road to the east, and also from the existing Grange Park residential development to the south; Provision of 362 no. car parking spaces and 264 no. secure bike parking spaces; Provision of open spaces including a new civic park; All associated site development and services connections including bin stores, ESB substations, boundary treatment works, realignment of existing stream through the site, and associated site works and landscaping. The application contains a statement setting out how the proposal will be consistent with the objectives of the Meath County Council development plan 2013-2019. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of the proposed development.

  Permission, 211 homes · Meath County Council, SH307244

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 Grangend Common.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Grangend Common.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Grangend Common, 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. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Grangend Common

Area

261,242 m² (26.12 ha, 64.55 acres)

Civil parish

Dunshaughlin, and its townlands

Barony

Ratoath

Electoral division

Dunshaughlin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

8,517 people lived in 2,904 households in the Dunshaughlin electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bonestown, Dunshaughlin, Grangend

Placenames

Grangend Common 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.