Bonfield
Bonfield is a townland in the civil parish of Balsoon, barony of Deece Lower, Co. Meath.
- Area
- 15.4 ha
- 38 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 5,053 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bonfield, from 54 m² to 66,017 m² (6.6 ha, 16.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 14 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
26 Feb 2026Conditional
the development will consist of (1) permission for completion of substantially constructed two storey dormer dwelling & detached domestic garage (presently at floor level), granted under planning permission reference no. NA/900303, including external works being; proposed well, proposed revised site boundaries to as originally granted, landscaping, (2) retention permission for alterations to rear sunroom & window in lieu of French doors to side elevation of house, & all ancillary site works. Note: all other works are completed in accordance with planning permission ref. no. NA/900303
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660220
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 Bonfield.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bonfield.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bonfield.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Bonfield, 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2707 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Bonfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Bonfield
- Area
- 153,590 m² (15.36 ha, 37.95 acres)
- Civil parish
- Balsoon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Deece Lower
- Electoral division
- Tara, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,466 people lived in 438 households in the Tara electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Bonfield 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.