Steeplestown

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Steeplestown, from 323 m² to 188,882 m² (18.89 ha, 46.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 32 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 23 May 2024Conditional

  the construction of a two storey, detached farm dwelling house, detached storey and a half garage, storage and plant room building, vehicular access via the existing farm entrance gateway and access road, new internal access road, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area along with all associated services, service connections, landscape and site development works

  Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, 24223

• 25 Jan 2023Conditional

  a storey and a half type extension for a family flat to the rear of an existing storey and a half type house, new waste-water treatment system and percolation area to replace the existing septic tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2364

• 15 Dec 2022Refused

  the construction of a two storey detached farm dwelling house, detached storey and a half garage, storage and plant room building, vehicular access via the existing farm entrance gateway and access road, new internal access road, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area along with all associated services, service connections, landscape and site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 221639

• 28 Nov 2022N/a

  the construction of a two storey detached farm dwelling house, detached storey and a half garage, storage and plant room building, vehicular access via the existing farm entrance gateway and access road, new internal access road, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area along with all associated services, service connections, landscape and site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 221543

• 28 Apr 2022Conditional

  construction of an agricultural shed with underground slatted slurry storage tank which will incorporate livestock housing and robotic machine, dairy and ancillary rooms and all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 22560

• 16 Sept 2021Conditional

  construction of an agricultural entrance, farm roadway and all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 211817

• 22 Oct 2020Conditional

  the demolition of an existing single-storey rear extension to an existing dwelling and the construction of a replacement storey-and-half type extension. The development also consists of the upgrade of the existing site entrance, the decommissioning of the existing septic tank and construction of a new wastewater disposal system, the demolition of an existing shed and all associated site works and services. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, TA201530

• 3 Jul 2020Conditional

  construction of a fully serviced part two storey, part single storey dwelling with detached domestic garage, install a proprietary sewage treatment system and form new entrance from public road. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, TA200856

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 Steeplestown.

Recorded monuments

• ME036-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a local summit in a gently undulating landscape, with a small canalised W-E stream c. 75m to the S. This was known locally as Steeplestown Moat and was damaged c. 1954. It is a raised grass-covered and oval area (dims 39m E-W; 29m N-S) defined by a scarp (at S: Wth 7m; H 3.5m) with some bushes NE-S-NW but there is a lower grass-covered scarp (at N: Wth 5m; H 1m) NW-NE where there is a grass-covered annexe (dims 43m E-W; 30m N-S) defined by scarp (at W: Wth 2.5m,; H 2m). A berm (Wth c. 20m) once separated the base of the scarp from an outer bank SSE-W from images of the 1940s (ACAP: V273/ 55) but it was not present in 1969 (SMR file). This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 204/1955). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 5 July 2019 Amended: 24 March 2023

• ME036-009001 Standing stone
  Description

  A small standing stone was noted in 1955 at the N edge of the rath (ME036-009----) but it was not present in 1969 (SMR file). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 July, 2019 Amended: 24 March 2024

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2585 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Steeplestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Steeplestown

Area

632,225 m² (63.22 ha, 156.23 acres)

Civil parish

Trim, and its townlands

Barony

Navan Upper

Electoral division

Trim Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Trim Rural electoral division: 9,201 people in 3,063 households; 74% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blackfriary (1st Division), Corporationland, Corporationland North, Corporationland North (1st Division), Phillistown

Placenames

Steeplestown 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.