Adamstown
Townland in the civil parish of Laracor, barony of Moyfenrath Lower, Co. Meath
- Area
- 116.2 ha
- 287 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 14,796 m² (1.48 ha, 3.66 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Adamstown, from 188 m² to 629,785 m² (62.98 ha, 155.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 39 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
28 Jan 2026Conditional
File Ref: TA201324 - the provision of a new single storey dwelling, detached garage and a new wastewater treatment system, together with the relocation of an existing vehicular entrance to the neighbouring dwelling to provide a shared entrance to serve the existing neighbouring dwelling, the existing agricultural lands and the proposed dwelling, along with all associated site development works
Extension of duration, 2 homes · Meath County Council, 2635
17 Jun 2025Conditional
the development will consist of retention of alterations to existing dwelling to previously approved Planning Permission Ref. No. TA/800445 to include revised floor plans & elevational treatment with revised site layout & for retention of alterations to domestic garage to include home office & home gym ancillary to the main house. Permission is also sought to retain detached garden shed
Retention · Meath County Council, 2560610
23 Jul 2021Conditional
the construction of single storey detached dwelling house with storey and a half side annexe containing home offices and connecting covered link, proprietary wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter/percolation area; new vehicular entrance gateway, access road, cutting back of existing roadside hedgerow, along with all associated services, service connections, landscape and site development works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211409
22 Sept 2020Conditional
the provision of a new single storey dwelling, detached garage and a new wastewater treatment system, together with the relocation of an existing vehicular entrance to the neighbouring dwelling to provide a shared entrance to serve the existing neighbouring dwelling, the existing agricultural lands and the proposed dwelling, along with all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, TA201324
19 Jun 2020Conditional
the construction of a new storey and a half style dwelling with wastewater treatment system and percolation area, garage, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, TA200765
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 Adamstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Adamstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Adamstown.
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
- 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_2647 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Adamstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Adamstown
- Area
- 1,162,190 m² (116.22 ha, 287.18 acres)
- Civil parish
- Laracor, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moyfenrath Lower
- Electoral division
- Laracor, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Laracor electoral division: 696 people in 213 households; 91% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Freffans Great, Freffans Little, Mitchelstown, Scurlockstown, Walterstown
- Placenames
- Adamstown 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.