Foxtown

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foxtown, from 85 m² to 256,877 m² (25.69 ha, 63.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 33 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 15 Jun 2026N/a

  the development will consist of the recontouring of agricultural land and associated site works for agricultural benefits using circa 120,000 tonnes of imported clean inert soil and stones to infill an area of circa 5.15 hectares within the townland of Milltown and Foxtown, Kiltale, Co. Meath, over a six year period to tie in with the proposed waste permit of five years

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2660731

• 30 Sept 2025Conditional

  EXTENSION OF DURATION OF PLANNING PERMISSION TA200759 - the development at a recently restored sand and gravel pit (P.A. Ref. QY/48 PL17.QC2113), Foxtown, Summerhill, Co. Meath. The development will consist of the recovery of construction and demolition waste to produce secondary aggregates. The existing site infrastructure including site offices, wheel wash, weighbridge, hard standing area with drainage to oil interceptor, semi-mobile crushing and screening plant and all other ancillaries will be utilised. A chemical toilet (portaloo) will be provided. The site has an existing EPA waste licence (W0262-01) in place with respect to recovery of soil and recycling of inorganic construction materials

  Extension of duration · Meath County Council, 25186

• 9 Feb 2024Refused

  the development will consist of construction of a single storey dwelling and domestic garage. Installation of proprietary waste water treatment system. Use existing entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460094

• 28 Sept 2023Unconditional

  EXTENSION OF DURATION OF PLANNING PERMISSION TA181083 - the recontouring of agricultural land and associated site works using imported clean inert soil and stones within a farm holding of 3.821 hectares within the townland of Milltown (plus the additional access roadway serving the development of 0.553 hectares in the townland of Foxtown) for the consequential benefit to agriculture. A 5 year planning permission is requested and during this period 95,619 tonnes of inert soil and stones will be imported for the purposes of land reclamation

  Extension of duration · Meath County Council, 23932

• 18 Jun 2020Conditional

  development at a recently restored sand and gravel pit (P.A. Ref. QY/48 PL17.QC2113), Foxtown, Summerhill, Co. Meath. The development will consist of the recovery of construction and demolition waste to produce secondary aggregates. The existing site infrastructure including site offices, wheel wash, weighbridge, hard standing area with drainage to oil interceptor, semi-mobile crushing and screening plant and all other ancillaries will be utilised. A chemical toilet (portaloo) will be provided. The site has an existing EPA waste licence (W0262-01) in place with respect to recovery of soil and recycling of inorganic construction materials

  Permission · Meath County Council, TA200759

• 4 Oct 2017N/a

  the development will consist of the recovery of construction and demolition waste to produce secondary aggregates. The existing site infrastructure including site offices, wheel wash, weighbridge, hard standing area with drainage to oil interceptor, semi-mobile crushing and screening plant and all other ancillaries will be utilised. A chemical toilet (portaloo) will be provided. The site has an existing EPA waste licence (W0262-01) in place with respect to recovery of soil and recycling of inorganic construction materials

  Permission · Meath County Council, TA171165

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Foxtown.

Recorded monuments

• ME037-021 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in a fairly low-lying position in an undulating landscape with a NNW-SSE esker ridge c. 200m to the W and higher ground to the N and SE. This is a raised and slightly domed, grass-covered and circular platform (diam. 32.5m N-S; 29.5m E-W) defined by a scarp (Wth 7-7.2m; H 2-2.2m) and an outer fosse (Wth of top 9.5-11; ext. D 0.5m). The widened ramp entrance (Wth of base 4.2m) with a causeway (Wth of top 1.8m; H 0.4m) is at SE, but there are old quarries at E and S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 21 August 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Foxtown, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Foxtown.

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.

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

Name

Foxtown

Area

620,599 m² (62.06 ha, 153.35 acres)

Civil parish

Galtrim, and its townlands

Barony

Deece Lower

Electoral division

Galtrim, the unit of the census

Census 2022

791 people lived in 251 households in the Galtrim electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Galtrim, Milltown, Mitchelstown, Windtown

Placenames

Foxtown 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.