Fostersfields

100 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fostersfields, from 19 m² to 101,680 m² (10.17 ha, 25.13 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.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 58 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2A1 - Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 34 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2B1 - Commercial Town or Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 16 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5G1 - Community Infrastructure (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1A2 - New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (Variation 02 - Made on 13/05/2024), Meath · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1A2 - New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 12 Mar 2025Conditional

  the development will consist of the installation of 24 lighting columns with LED lights, and all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2560246

• 9 Aug 2024Refused

  The development will consist of 9 no. residential units comprising of: (a) 2 no. 4 bed one and a half storey type dwellings fronting the main road, (b) 6 no. 4 bed two storey semi-detached dwellings and (c) 1 no. 4 bed detached two storey dwelling at the rear of the site (d) New entrance and access roadway off N51 to include turning area, associated paths, landscaping and new boundary treatments. The development also includes the construction of a surface water attenuation system, connection to the existing public foul sewer and mains water system together with all associated site works.

  Permission, 9 homes · Meath County Council, 2460617

• 9 Apr 2024Conditional

  The development will consist of the construction of 16 No. dwellings, comprising of 1 no. 4 bedroom two storey semi-detached dwelling (type A), 1 no. 4 bedroom two storey semi-detached dwelling (type A1), 1 no. 4 bedroom two storey detached dwelling (type A1), 12 no. 3 bedroom two storey semi-detached dwellings (type B) and 1 no. 3 bedroom two storey detached dwelling (type B) including all associated ancillary on and off site development works, outfall foul and surface water sewers, watermain, internal access road, footpaths, landscaping, open spaces, boundary treatments and ancillary services to facilitate the development, with vehicular and pedestrian access for this development from the existing public road (L-40032) located to the south of the site all on a site (redline area) of circa 0.68 ha. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 15 homes · Meath County Council, 2460241

• 8 Oct 2021Conditional

  a two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage/store install a proprietary wastewater treatment system & all associated site development works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, 211961

• 23 Jun 2021Conditional

  the demolition of an existing rear single-storey extension and garage, construction of a new single-storey and dormer extension to the rear and side of the existing house, alterations and refurbishment of the existing house, alterations to existing site entrances and associated site, drainage and landscaping works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 211210

• 16 Apr 2021Conditional

  to construct a single storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21723

• 16 Oct 2020Conditional

  the development will consist of the conversion of the existing attic area to a habitable living space with roof lights and all ancillary internal works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, ka201492

• 4 Mar 2020Conditional

  construction of an Astroturf pitch including floodlight and ball stop netting, relocation and upgrade of existing GAA pitches and ball stop netting, increase size of existing carpark and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA200281

• 17 May 2019Conditional

  the demolition of existing single storey front porch to the north, single storey rear entrance porch and single storey mono pitch sunroom to the south, the construction of 2 single storey extensions to the south, revisions to internal layouts, all associated elevational changes and all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, KA190613

• 6 Jul 2018Conditional

  demolition of an existing dwellinghouse and outbuildings and replacement with a storey and a half style dwelling with detached domestic garage, a domestic effluent treatment system, upgraded site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, KA180748

• 13 Apr 2018N/a

  demolition of an existing dwellinghouse and outbuildings and replacement with a storey and a half style dwelling with detached domestic garage, a domestic effluent treatment system, upgraded site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA180361

• 16 Jun 2017Conditional

  conversion of existing attic area to habitable living space with 4 no. roof lights to front & side elevations, with all ancillary internal works

  Permission · Meath County Council, KA170696

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

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Fostersfields.

Architectural heritage

• Athboy Lodge, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron gates and railings, erected c.1820. Comprising of pair of cast-iron piers with cast-iron double gates, flanked by rendered walls with cast-iron railings, and terminated by cast-iron piers.

• Athboy Lodge, stables, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Group of multiple-bay single- and two-storey former stables, built c.1800, ranged around a cobbled courtyard. Hipped and pitched slate roofs. Limestone walls with ashlar dressings. Square-headed window and door openings, segmental-arched integral carriage arches, and circular windows. Brick-vaulted tunnel to northern corner formerly lead to house. Remains of former walled garden to north-west.

• Saint James's Vocational School, school, 1940–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay single-storey vocational school, built c.1950. Low pitched roof. Roughcast rendered walls with concrete buttresses between bays. Steel casement windows. Square-headed opening with timber glazed door. Outbuilding and playground shelter to site.

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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2433 (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 Fostersfields with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Fostersfields · Páirceanna an Fhoraistéaraigh

Area

935,106 m² (93.51 ha, 231.07 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

Curleyland and Mill Land, Gillstown Great, Hospital Land, Martinstown, Mullaghstones, Town Parks

Placenames

Fostersfields 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.