# Meeldrum, Co. Westmeath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilbeggan, barony of Moycashel, Co. Westmeath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 533,196 m² (53.32 ha, 131.76 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 81,091 m² (8.11 ha, 20.04 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilbeggan, https://everytownland.com/westmeath/parish/kilbeggan.md - Barony: Moycashel - Electoral division: Lauree, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Westmeath, https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/51876 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 230977 - Centre: latitude 53.381607, longitude -7.540332 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 125595: 447,739 m² (44.77 ha, 110.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/125595.md - Parcel 102779: 81,091 m² (8.11 ha, 20.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/102779.md - Parcel 125444: 4,363 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/125444.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Meeldrum in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Meeldrum. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Meeldrum. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Meldrum House, farm house, 1800–1814, Regional interest, registry number 15403701, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WM®no=15403701. 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, registry number 15403712, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WM®no=15403712. 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). ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1933.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/meeldrum.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/meeldrum.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/meeldrum.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Meeldrum with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath: https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinderry Little: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ballinderry-little.md - Ballinlaban: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ballinlaban.md - Ballymacmorris: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ballymacmorris.md - Cloonymurrikin: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/cloonymurrikin.md - Correagh: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/correagh-230495.md - Kilbeg: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/kilbeg.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/meeldrum - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/westmeath/meeldrum