Fidorfe

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fidorfe, from 171 m² to 423,356 m² (42.34 ha, 104.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 43 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 6 Nov 2023Conditional

  a single storey family flat extension to the side of the existing dwelling. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2360392

• 19 Jan 2023Conditional

  to construct a domestic garage with attic storage area to the side of the existing dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2335

• 6 Dec 2018Conditional

  construct a two storey style dwelling, install waste water treatment system, form new entrance from the public road, together with all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plan submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, RA181456

• 2 Nov 2018N/a

  construct a two storey style dwelling, install waste water treatment system, form new entrance from the public road, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, RA181303

• 28 Aug 2017Conditional

  the development will consist of the construction of a 2 storey house with a single storey barn style return level, single storey front porch, new on site waste treatment system, using existing vehicular and pedestrian access to the site, new on site access road and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, RA170992

• 9 Jun 2017Conditional

  a 10 year permission for the construction of a Solar PV Energy Development comprising Solar Photovoltaic (PV) panels on ground mounted frames/support structures within existing field boundaries; underground cabling and ducting; 24 no. inverter/transformer stations; 24 no. HV Cabins; 2 no. electricity control buildings; 1 no. communications cabin; site perimeter (stock proof) security fencing (c.85.3ha); CCTV security cameras; site access tracks; landscaping; and all associated site development works. Two temporary construction compounds will also be provided, one to each side of the site. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, RA170644

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Fidorfe.

Recorded monuments

• ME045-019 Field system
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape that slopes down slightly to the N. An unmapped field system of small rectangular or square fields (dims c. 25m x c. 25m) defined by the cropmarks of ditches is visible on oblique aerial photographs (CUCAP: BGN 013-14) from 1971. They are also visible, although less distinct, on aerial photograph (LS AS 35BWN_00 059_03) taken by Leo Swan. It covers an area of about 12 ha. (c. 30 acres) with a concentrated area (dims c. 100m x c.100m) at the centre with smaller plots (dims c. 30m x c. 15m). No house sites are identifiable and the smaller plots could be associated with flax-growing. The fields are also visible on Google Earth (24/06/2018; 21/07/2021). (Feeley 2001, 40-1, No. 25) See the attached view from Google Earth (21/07/2021) The above 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 revision: 23 May 2016 Amended: 17 December 2021

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fidorfe.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Fidorfe, about 1 in 20 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 low.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Fidorfe.

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.

No address of the register names Fidorfe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Fidorfe

Area

979,587 m² (97.96 ha, 242.06 acres)

Civil parish

Ratoath, and its townlands

Barony

Ratoath

Electoral division

Ratoath, the unit of the census

Census 2022

11,894 people lived in 3,639 households in the Ratoath electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 58% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacoll Little, Boolies, Cheeverstown, Grange, Kilrue, Loughlinstown

Placenames

Fidorfe 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.