Meeldrum

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meeldrum, from 4,363 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres) to 447,739 m² (44.77 ha, 110.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Meeldrum in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

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

No planning application touches the townland of Meeldrum 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 the townland of Meeldrum.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meeldrum.

Architectural heritage

• Meldrum House, farm house, 1800–1814 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey farmhouse, extant 1814, on a rectangular plan originally three-bay two-storey. Extended, 1886, producing present composition. Vacant, 1901. Sold, 1904. Occupied, 1911. Pitched slate roof with crested roll moulded clay ridge tiles, coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Roughcast walls. Round-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered, ruled and lined piers to perimeter having capping supporting wrought iron double gates.

• Gates/railings/walls, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Field gates, erected c.1860, comprising a pair of rendered gate piers, on square-plan having cut stone capstones, supporting a pair of wrought-iron double gates with decorative finials and curled clasps. Located to the southeast of Horseleap, adjacent to main Dublin to Galway road and to the south of Meldrum House (15403701).

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_1933 (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 Meeldrum with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Meeldrum

Area

533,196 m² (53.32 ha, 131.76 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbeggan, and its townlands

Barony

Moycashel

Electoral division

Lauree, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lauree electoral division: 223 people in 73 households; 89% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinderry Little, Ballinlaban, Ballymacmorris, Cloonymurrikin, Correagh, Kilbeg

Placenames

Meeldrum 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.