Piercetown

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Piercetown, from 164 m² to 515,989 m² (51.6 ha, 127.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 · 39 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 26 May 2023Conditional

  Construction of an agricultural shed consisting of cubicles and feed area with underground slatted slurry storage tanks and all associated siteworks.

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2360067

• 11 Apr 2023Conditional

  construction of a livestock underpass with effluent holding tank and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Meath County Council, 23380

• 13 Jun 2019Conditional

  the construction of a two storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling with a new single storey entrance block, conversion of part of the existing dwelling to serve as a granny flat, demolishment of existing rear kitchen area and attached garage, new packaged wastewater treatment system and percolation area, together with all ancillary internal and external refurbishment works and all associated works

  Permission · Meath County Council, KA190765

• 22 Mar 2017Conditional

  the development will consist of demolition of existing flat roof extension to rear and construction of new extension to rear of dwelling including new roof profile for existing dwelling

  Permission · Meath County Council, KA170289

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mentrim Lough 001587

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Piercetown.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Piercetown, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2782 (ZIP).

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

Name

Piercetown

Area

1,190,381 m² (119.04 ha, 294.15 acres)

Civil parish

Inishmot, and its townlands

Barony

Slane Lower

Electoral division

Drumcondra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,376 people lived in 491 households in the Drumcondra electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aclare Cottage Demesne, Aclare House Demesne, Mackanhill, Mandistown, Mentrim, Saintjohnsfort, Woodtown Upper

Placenames

Piercetown 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.