Fordrath

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fordrath, from 359 m² to 503,917 m² (50.39 ha, 124.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 51 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 24 Sept 2024Conditional

  the proposed development consists of amendments to the house design previously granted under planning application reference number 211097. The alterations include; - a change in the roof profile from a curved to a pitched design, resulting in an increase in the ridge height from 6.8m to 7.43 m. - Additional changes involve elevational alterations to external windows and doors, along with a revised porch area. - Internal layout changes, including the omission of the first-floor terrace/balcony. - Increased floor area from 123.73sq.m to 143sq.m, increased external width from 6m to 6.3m and increased length from 13.3m to 13.5m

  Retention · Meath County Council, 2460776

• 11 Sept 2024N/a

  the proposed development consists of amendments to the house design previously granted under planning application reference number 211097. The alterations include; - a change in the roof profile from a curved to a pitched design, resulting in an increase in the ridge height from 6.8m to 7.43 m. - Additional changes involve elevational alterations to external windows and doors, along with a revised porch area. - Internal layout changes, including the omission of the first-floor terrace/balcony. - Increased floor area from 123.73sq.m to 143sq.m, increased external width from 6m to 6.3m and increased length from 13.3m to 13.5m

  Retention · Meath County Council, 2460732

• 30 Sept 2022Conditional

  an amended site boundary and the realignment of the proposed driveway previously granted under planning application ref. no. 211097

  Permission · Meath County Council, 221291

• 4 Jun 2021Conditional

  the construction of a new detached residential dwelling, proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area, upgrade existing entrance onto main road, landscaping, and all ancillary site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211097

• 14 Aug 2020N/a

  the development will consist of the following: Permission is sought to construct a single storey dwelling & domestic garage and new domestic entrance onto the public roadway. Permission is also sought for the installation of a septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works at the above address

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA201087

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
• Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232

Recorded monuments

• ME030-051 Enclosure
  Description

  Located towards the top of the SW-facing slope of the Hill of Ward. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible only on Google Earth (14/07/2018). It is situated between woodland to the NW and SE and the perimeter is absent between SE and SSW and very slight at some other points. See the attached image from Google Earth 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 June 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2483 (ZIP).

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.

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

Name

Fordrath · Ráth an Átha

Area

849,596 m² (84.96 ha, 209.94 acres)

Civil parish

Athboy, and its townlands

Barony

Lune

Electoral division

Athboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Athboy electoral division: 2,771 people in 1,007 households; 64% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Eightyeight Acres, Mitchelstown, Mullaghstones, Newtown or Ballyfallon, Otterstown, Town Parks, Wardstown

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Fordrath 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.