# Barfordstown, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Burry, barony of Kells Upper, Co. Meath; in Irish Baile Bharfard. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,148,636 m² (114.86 ha, 283.83 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,250 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Burry, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/burry.md - Barony: Kells Upper - Electoral division: Burry, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Burry electoral division: 281 people in 91 households; 88% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Meath, https://everytownland.com/meath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/38085 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 160188 - Centre: latitude 53.707329, longitude -6.90929 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barfordstown, from 41 m² to 419,381 m² (41.94 ha, 103.63 acres); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 138543: 419,381 m² (41.94 ha, 103.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/138543.md - Parcel 5317617: 197,629 m² (19.76 ha, 48.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5317617.md - Parcel 180440: 161,639 m² (16.16 ha, 39.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/180440.md - Parcel 2608363: 101,848 m² (10.18 ha, 25.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2608363.md - Parcel 149612: 85,815 m² (8.58 ha, 21.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/149612.md - Parcel 204610: 54,034 m² (5.4 ha, 13.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/204610.md - Parcel 147583: 50,170 m² (5.02 ha, 12.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/147583.md - Parcel 204003: 29,583 m² (2.96 ha, 7.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/204003.md - Parcel 151532: 7,251 m² (0.73 ha, 1.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/151532.md - Parcel 180439: 5,194 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/180439.md - Parcel 153936: 4,744 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/153936.md - Parcel 152142: 4,519 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/152142.md - Parcel 207236: 4,250 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/207236.md - Parcel 179596: 4,227 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/179596.md - Parcel 211563: 3,377 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/211563.md - Parcel 144723: 2,390 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/144723.md - Parcel 169080: 2,355 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/169080.md - Parcel 141498: 2,190 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/141498.md - Parcel 151488: 2,081 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/151488.md - Parcel 214840: 1,933 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/214840.md - Parcel 136540: 1,859 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/136540.md - Parcel 5311638: 1,410 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5311638.md - Parcel 189453: 799 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/189453.md - Parcel 2516361: 92 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2516361.md - Parcel 150005: 41 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/150005.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P5 RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural'): Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath; 50 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/meath-adopted-county-development-plan ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 22 Dec 2025, Meath County Council 2660031: Refused. Permission. for infilling of lands with material consisting of clean, uncontaminated soil and stones, including article 27 material (by-product), to raise the levels and improve the land for agricultural purposes. permission is also sought for one temporary portable toilet, one wheel wash facility and one temporary onsite portacabin which will serve as an office for the duration of the infilling process. Also, a Certificate of Registration waste permit (up to 25,000 tonnes) will be sought from Meath County Council Environment Section.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660031/0 - 18 Oct 2021, Meath County Council 212015: Conditional. Retention. retention of a detached garage to the side & rear of the existing house, retention of an external covered patio area to the side of the existing house and retention of a garden fence to the front of the existing house. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/212015/0 - 30 Jul 2019, Meath County Council KA191007: Conditional. Permission. the demolition of an existing single storey rear extension, provision of a two storey rear extension, internal alterations to the existing house and alterations to the existing house front & side elevations. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/KA191007/0 - 10 May 2019, Meath County Council KA190580: N/a. Permission. the demolition of an existing single storey rear extension, provision of a two storey rear extension, internal alterations to the existing house and alterations to the existing house front & side elevations. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/KA190580/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Barfordstown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Barfordstown. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Barfordstown. ## 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: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Barfordstown. - 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/meath/barfordstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/barfordstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/barfordstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Barfordstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath: https://everytownland.com/meath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Balrath Demesne: https://everytownland.com/meath/balrath-demesne.md - Boolies: https://everytownland.com/meath/boolies-160271.md - Calliaghstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/calliaghstown-160324.md - Lackmelch: https://everytownland.com/meath/lackmelch.md - Pepperstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/pepperstown.md - Rafeehan: https://everytownland.com/meath/rafeehan.md - Rockfield: https://everytownland.com/meath/rockfield.md - Toberultan: https://everytownland.com/meath/toberultan.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/meath/barfordstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/barfordstown