# Fosterstown, Co. Meath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Trim, barony of Moyfenrath Lower, Co. Meath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 367,713 m² (36.77 ha, 90.86 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,982 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P5 RA - Rural Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Trim, https://everytownland.com/meath/parish/trim.md - Barony: Moyfenrath Lower - Electoral division: Trim Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 9,201 people lived in 3,063 households in the Trim Rural electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Meath, https://everytownland.com/meath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39203 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 160717 - Centre: latitude 53.542873, longitude -6.793132 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fosterstown, from 26 m² to 124,209 m² (12.42 ha, 30.69 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 138420: 124,209 m² (12.42 ha, 30.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/138420.md - Parcel 169403: 99,738 m² (9.97 ha, 24.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/169403.md - Parcel 2946988: 40,500 m² (4.05 ha, 10.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2946988.md - Parcel 179247: 33,895 m² (3.39 ha, 8.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/179247.md - Parcel 2946747: 25,517 m² (2.55 ha, 6.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2946747.md - Parcel 6014847: 22,518 m² (2.25 ha, 5.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6014847.md - Parcel 2629766: 3,401 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2629766.md - Parcel 2608763: 3,285 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2608763.md - Parcel 185655: 2,703 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/185655.md - Parcel 5117729: 2,226 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5117729.md - Parcel 188522: 1,982 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/188522.md - Parcel 5117726: 1,811 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5117726.md - Parcel 2629546: 1,440 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2629546.md - Parcel 151460: 1,221 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/151460.md - Parcel 2629651: 1,218 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2629651.md - Parcel 160089: 1,114 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/160089.md - Parcel 2629762: 649 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2629762.md - Parcel 147267: 144 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/147267.md - Parcel 4848555: 76 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4848555.md - Parcel 4848562: 41 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4848562.md - Parcel 150532: 26 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/150532.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 (As Varied), Meath; 34 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/consolidated-meath-county-development-plan-2021-2027-incl-variations-1-2 - S5 G1 - Community Infrastructure (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses): Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath; 8 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://consult.meath.ie/en/consultation/consolidated-meath-county-development-plan-2021-2027-incl-variations-1-2 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 21 Dec 2022, Meath County Council 221697: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. single storey extension to side/rear of existing dwelling, together with modifications to existing elevations and internal plan layout. The development also includes de-commissioning of existing septic tank and installation of new proprietary waste water treatment and polishing filter together with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/221697/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Fosterstown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Fosterstown. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Fosterstown House, country house, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 14403605, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=ME®no=14403605. Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, with return to rear. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with render plat bands. Timber sash windows with stone sills. Timber panelled double doors flanked by columns, with cornice and fanlight having rusticated surround above. Outbuildings to site. - Fosterstown House, gate lodge, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 14403606, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=ME®no=14403606. Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1800, with central porch, now vacant. Hipped thatched roof with red brick chimneystack. Rendered walls. Replacement windows and doors. Rendered gate piers with cast-iron gates to site. Cast-iron railings to site. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Fosterstown, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2587, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2587.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/fosterstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/meath/fosterstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/meath/fosterstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Fosterstown 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) - Commons (7th Division): https://everytownland.com/meath/commons-7th-division.md - Friarspark (5th Division): https://everytownland.com/meath/friarspark-5th-division.md - Shanlothe: https://everytownland.com/meath/shanlothe.md - Stonehall: https://everytownland.com/meath/stonehall.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/fosterstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/meath/fosterstown