Fieldstown
Fieldstown is a townland in the civil parish of Slane, barony of Slane Upper, Co. Meath.
- Area
- 22.2 ha
- 55 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 2,376 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fieldstown, from 24 m² to 182,014 m² (18.2 ha, 44.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 · 26 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
12 Jul 2018Conditional
the development will consist of the following; 1. Changes to proposed new split-level extension to side and rear of existing dwelling at ground and lower ground floor levels (as per previously granted permission Ref. no. LB/151436) 2. New raised decking area at ground floor level to rear of existing dwelling, 3. All associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, LB180776
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 Fieldstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Fieldstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fieldstown.
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 Fieldstown, 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Fieldstown.
- 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 Fieldstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Fieldstown
- Area
- 221,813 m² (22.18 ha, 54.81 acres)
- Civil parish
- Slane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Slane Upper
- Electoral division
- Slane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,936 people lived in 687 households in the Slane electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bryanstown, Davidstown, Gernonstown, Newrath
- Placenames
- Fieldstown 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.