# Fordrath, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Athboy, barony of Lune, Co. Meath; in Irish Ráth an Átha. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 849,596 m² (84.96 ha, 209.94 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,823 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Athboy, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/athboy.md - Barony: Lune - Electoral division: Athboy, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Meath, https://everytownland.com/meath.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/38897 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 160709 - Centre: latitude 53.617628, longitude -6.896517 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fordrath, from 359 m² to 503,917 m² (50.39 ha, 124.52 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 203727: 503,917 m² (50.39 ha, 124.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/203727.md - Parcel 201498: 81,955 m² (8.2 ha, 20.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/201498.md - Parcel 200024: 63,115 m² (6.31 ha, 15.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/200024.md - Parcel 152928: 41,764 m² (4.18 ha, 10.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/152928.md - Parcel 201705: 33,463 m² (3.35 ha, 8.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/201705.md - Parcel 204144: 27,531 m² (2.75 ha, 6.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/204144.md - Parcel 151574: 17,707 m² (1.77 ha, 4.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/151574.md - Parcel 137736: 14,441 m² (1.44 ha, 3.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/137736.md - Parcel 145216: 8,393 m² (0.84 ha, 2.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/145216.md - Parcel 203728: 7,097 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/203728.md - Parcel 5196307: 5,831 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5196307.md - Parcel 2670021: 3,546 m² (0.35 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2670021.md - Parcel 200946: 3,415 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/200946.md - Parcel 150984: 3,139 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/150984.md - Parcel 136153: 2,858 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/136153.md - Parcel 144293: 2,789 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/144293.md - Parcel 182932: 2,760 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/182932.md - Parcel 148579: 2,560 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/148579.md - Parcel 206222: 2,554 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/206222.md - Parcel 208732: 2,290 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/208732.md - Parcel 151074: 2,249 m² (0.22 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/151074.md - Parcel 145545: 2,110 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/145545.md - Parcel 146856: 1,946 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/146856.md - Parcel 2895853: 1,822 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2895853.md - Parcel 150651: 1,772 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/150651.md - Parcel 144919: 1,712 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/144919.md - Parcel 4932860: 1,297 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4932860.md - Parcel 209831: 513 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/209831.md - Parcel 2670018: 495 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2670018.md - Parcel 4594663: 359 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4594663.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P5 RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural'): Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath; 51 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/meath-adopted-county-development-plan ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 24 Sept 2024, Meath County Council 2460776: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460776/0 - 11 Sept 2024, Meath County Council 2460732: N/a. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460732/0 - 30 Sept 2022, Meath County Council 221291: Conditional. Permission. an amended site boundary and the realignment of the proposed driveway previously granted under planning application ref. no. 211097. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/221291/0 - 4 Jun 2021, Meath County Council 211097: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/211097/0 - 14 Aug 2020, Meath County Council KA201087: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/KA201087/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC, site code 002299, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002299 - Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA, site code 004232, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004232 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - ME030-051: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CME030-051----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fordrath. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2483.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/meath/fordrath.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/fordrath.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/fordrath.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Fordrath with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath: https://everytownland.com/meath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Eightyeight Acres: https://everytownland.com/meath/eightyeight-acres.md - Mitchelstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/mitchelstown-161121.md - Mullaghstones: https://everytownland.com/meath/mullaghstones.md - Newtown or Ballyfallon: https://everytownland.com/meath/newtown-or-ballyfallon.md - Otterstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/otterstown.md - Town Parks: https://everytownland.com/meath/town-parks.md - Wardstown: https://everytownland.com/meath/wardstown.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/meath/fordrath - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/fordrath