Fennor
Townland in the civil parish of Ardcath, barony of Duleek Upper, Co. Meath
- Area
- 97.4 ha
- 241 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 3,150 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fennor, from 259 m² to 363,928 m² (36.39 ha, 89.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 · 45 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
4 Apr 2025N/a
the development will consist of planning permission for (a) 3 no. 2 bed seasonal accommodation units for farm labourers. (b) De-commissioning and removal of 3 no. existing mobile homes on site. (c) De-commissioning of existing waste water treatment system and percolation area and install new proprietary waste water treatment system and polishing filter. The development also includes retention permission for 3 no. 2 no. bed seasonal accommodation units for farm labourers previously granted permission under planning reference no AA181499 which has elapsed. Access to the development will be via existing farm entrance and roadway together with all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2560346
18 Feb 2025Conditional
the development will consist of the following: 1. Construction of a new single-storey detached dwelling. 2. Construction of a new detached garage. 3. Alterations to existing agricultural entrance to accommodate new vehicular entrance to site. 4. New Proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area. 5. All associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2560150
6 Jul 2023Conditional
(1) Construction of an agricultural shed to incorporate machinery and general storage areas, bedded area, slatted area and underground slurry storage tanks and adjacent walled manure storage pit with associated concrete aprons, (2) Installation of effluent collect tank, (3) Infill of existing low lying portion of lands to allow construction of yard area, berm and bund area, (4) Completion of all ancillary site works and associated site structures together with retention of (a) alterations and amendments made to elevations and floor plan of overground slurry storage tank, (b) revised on site position of same tank all from that previously granted under planning reference AA171531
Permission · Meath County Council, 2360144
1 Jul 2023N/a
(1) Construction of an agricultural shed to incorporate machinery and general storage areas, bedded area, slatted area and underground slurry storage tanks and adjacent walled manure storage pit with associated concrete aprons, (2) Installation of effluent collect tank, (3) Infill of existing low lying portion of lands to allow construction of yard area, berm and bund area, (4) Completion of all ancillary site works and associated site structures together with retention of (a) alterations and amendments made to elevations and floor plan of overground slurry storage tank, (b) revised on site position of same tank all from that previously granted under planning reference AA171531
Permission · Meath County Council, 2360133
2 Dec 2020Conditional
the development will consist of: (a) 108 No. solar panels totaling 40KWp on existing roof space of calf shed (b) 162 No. solar panels totaling 60KWp on roof space of milling parlour granted under Planning Ref: AA191497 and yet to be completed and all associated works and site works
Permission · Meath County Council, AA201849
8 Nov 2019Conditional
(a) Construction of 2no. extension to existing straw storage shed (b) Construction of agricultural shed to include milking parlour, dairy, assembly yard, straw bedding area and underground slatted tank (c) Construction of calf rearing shed (d) Erection of 2no. meal bins, water storage tank & external milk storage tank and all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, AA191497
14 Dec 2018Conditional
new farm entrance and roadway to existing farm yard, construct 3 no. 2 bed seasonal accommodation units for farm labourers with access to same from new internal farm roadway. The development also includes installation of a proprietary waste water treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 3 homes · Meath County Council, AA181499
22 Dec 2017Conditional
the development will consist of (a) extension to existing shed which will include a roofed cubicle and feed area with an underground slatted tank (b) extension to existing shed which will include a roofed feed area (c) over ground slurry storage silo with adjacent underground reception tank and all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, AA171531
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 Fennor.
Recorded monuments
- ME033-035 Souterrain
Description
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007 Souterrain discovered c. 1930 and backfilled. Site now marked by concrete post.
- ME033-065 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a N-facing slope. The cropmark of a subrectangular enclosure (dims c. 30m ENE-WSW; c. 24m NNW-SSE) defined by slight fosses or trenches on the S, W and N sides is visible only on Apple Maps which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. It is attached at E to to the arc of the cropmark of a convex S-N fieldbank (visible L c. 60m) with drains on either side. The fieldbank is unmapped, and the enclosure was first reported by Anthony Murphy. See the attached aerial view from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 February 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fennor.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Fennor.
- 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 Fennor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Fennor
- Area
- 974,034 m² (97.4 ha, 240.69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardcath, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duleek Upper
- Electoral division
- Ardcath, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ardcath electoral division: 2,119 people in 721 households; 86% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardcath, Boolies Great, Carnes West, Clatterstown, Coolfore, Johnstown, Lunderstown, Mannanstown, Maryland
- Placenames
- Fennor 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.