Normanstown or Norbrinstown
Normanstown or Norbrinstown is a townland in the civil parish of Kells, barony of Kells Upper, Co. Meath. Its name in Irish is Baile Norbrain.
Parcel 2883496
- Area
- 2,907 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 158 m².
- Zoning
- P5 RA - Rural Area (Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied)) The objective
- Townland
- Normanstown or Norbrinstown
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 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.
- 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
- 107 ha
- 264 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 2,777 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Normanstown or Norbrinstown, from 40 m² to 235,581 m² (23.56 ha, 58.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 64 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2A1 - Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1F1 - Open Space (Open space, park)
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2B1 - Commercial Town or Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 2 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
8 May 2025Conditional
the development consists of a domestic garage to the rear of existing dwelling and all site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2585
8 May 2025Conditional
the development consists of a Dry Fodder/Feed Store, concrete Apron and all site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2586
11 Apr 2025N/a
the development consists of a Dry Fodder/Feed Store, concrete Apron and all site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2563
11 Apr 2025N/a
the development consists of a domestic garage to the rear of existing dwelling and all site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2564
20 Dec 2024Refused
the construction of a two storey dwelling house, new entrance and install a septic tank system with percolation areas together with all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 24473
15 Mar 2024Conditional
the development consists of and will consist of revisions to a previously permitted childcare facility granted under Planning Ref.s' No's: KA/161437 and KA/180203 and will include the following: Retention Permission for: (A) Variations to the Childcare/Creche building made during construction to include an increase in height of first floor attic area and minor elevational details. (B) Ancillary site development works. Planning Permission for: A change in the Childcare/Creche facilities operating hours which will be to start at 8am in the morning, open through until 6pm in the evening. (B) The total number of childcare places is to be increased to 22. (C) To use the first-floor area of the Childcare/Creche to facilitate the increase in numbers and will include minor revisions to the internal layout. (D) To provide additional car parking spaces. (E) To revise the site boundaries from those previously granted. (F) All ancillary site development works
Permission · Meath County Council, 24114
13 Nov 2023Conditional
for alterations to existing grant of planning Ref. No. KA/200450. Alterations to elevations and internal layout, demolition of existing dwelling and construct single storey detached domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2360406
22 Dec 2022Refused
the construction of a two storey dwelling house, new entrance and install a septic tank system with percolation areas together with all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 221711
5 Feb 2021N/a
to construct a two storey dwelling house, new entrance and install a septic tank system with percolation areas together with all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21221
4 Aug 2020Conditional
a Cattle Housing Unit, Underground Slurry Storage Tanks and all site works
Permission · Meath County Council, KA201040
20 Mar 2020Refused
planning permission to construct a two storey dwelling house, new entrance and install a septic tank system with percolation areas together with all associated site development works on site
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA200378
20 Dec 2019Refused
3 no. two storey dwelling houses, provide new entrance and internal service road, connect to mains water supply, install 3no. sewage treatment systems with percolation areas together with all associated site development works
Permission, 3 homes · Meath County Council, KA191791
5 Mar 2018Conditional
revisions to a previous Grant of Permission, Ref. No. KA/161437 and will include the following: (A) The previously granted Pre-School Sessional Childcare Facility is also to be used for After-School Care with a revision to operating hours from that previously granted. There will be no increase in the number of children to be accommodated on the premises. (B) To revise Condition No. 2(b) of the previous permission to allow the following operating hours: The Pre-School Sessional Childcare shall operate from 9.00am until 12.00p.m. The Afterschool Care shall operate from 2.00pm until 6.00pm. Days of operation to be Monday to Friday inclusive. (C) To revise the design of the previously approved detached Pre-School Sessional Childcare facility to include for an increase in height to provide an attic storage area, with 3 no. roof-lights and to make revisions to the internal layout. (D) All ancillary site development works
Permission · Meath County Council, KA180203
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 Normanstown or Norbrinstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Normanstown or Norbrinstown.
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch road bridge, built c.1800. Rock-faced snecked limestone walls, with rock faced voussoirs and ashlar copings. Two blocked arches of earlier bridge to north.
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 Normanstown or Norbrinstown, 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 Normanstown or Norbrinstown.
- 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 Normanstown or Norbrinstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Normanstown or Norbrinstown · Baile Norbrain
- Area
- 1,070,027 m² (107 ha, 264.41 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kells, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kells Upper
- Electoral division
- Maperath, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 495 people lived in 173 households in the Maperath electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balreask, Carlanstown, Headfort Demesne, Knockglass, Mahonstown, Mullaghey, Williamstown
- Placenames
- Normanstown or Norbrinstown 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.