Friarspark (6th Division)
Townland in the civil parish of Trim, barony of Moyfenrath Lower, Co. Meath; in Irish Páirc na mBráthar
- Area
- 60.1 ha
- 149 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 501 m²
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Friarspark (6th Division), from 41 m² to 181,535 m² (18.15 ha, 44.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 44 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
14 Jan 2022Conditional
permission to amend the design of the approved development (Planning Reference TA/180167) which comprises consent for a Solar PV Energy Development. Proposed amendments include; (1) Customer Substation to be relocated and decrease in size, (2) Number of Inverters to be reduced, (3) 1no Inverter to decrease in size, (4) Minor changes to the panel layout, (5) Slight alteration to the access tracks, (6) Battery Containers to be removed, (7) Slight alteration to the layout of the Deer Fencing and (8) Project Lifetime proposed to be extended from 30 to 35 years
Permission · Meath County Council, 2230
21 Dec 2021N/a
to amend the design of the approved development (Planning Reference TA/180167) which comprises consent for a Solar PV Energy Development. Proposed amendments include; (1) Customer Substation to be relocated and decrease in size, (2) Number of Inverters to be reduced, (3) 1no Inverter to decrease in size, (4) Minor changes to the panel layout, (5) Slight alteration to the access tracks, (6) Battery Containers to be removed, (7) Slight alteration to the layout of the Deer Fencing and (8) Project Lifetime proposed to be extended from 30 to 35 years
Permission · Meath County Council, 212391
22 Feb 2018Conditional
the development will consist of solar PV arrays with a surface area of approximately 31,000m2 mounted on steel support structures, associated underground cabling and ducting, grid control building, 2 No. inverter/transformer cabins, 2 no. battery enclosures, site entrance, access tracks, hardstanding area, boundary security fence, CCTV, landscaping and ancillary works. The solar PV arrays will have a height above ground level of up to 3m and an export electrical capacity of up to 4 megawatts. An appropriate period of 10 years (i.e. duration of the planning permission to construct the development) is sought, with an operational life of 25 years after that date of commissioning
Permission · Meath County Council, TA180167
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Friarspark (6th Division).
Recorded monuments
- ME036-091 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on what is probably a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a single fosse feature (Wth c. 2-3m) is visible on Google Earth (29/06/2018; 14/07/2018). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere. See the attached image from Google Earth 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 June 2019
- ME036-102 Fulacht fia
Description
Situated on a level landscape. The geophysical survey (17R0153) of an extensive area (dims c. 650m NW-SE; c. 200-280m NE-SW) identified several potential archaeological features, some of which were tested (17E0458) archaeologically. An oval pit (dims 3.2m x 1.7m; D 0.32m) with a second pit (dims 2.7m x 0.9m; D 0.3m) nearby were both filled with fire-cracked stones. They are probably troughs from a fulacht fia, and there are two small spreads (diam. 1.1-1.3m: 0.4m) of the same material in the vicinity. The monument will be preserved in situ with a buffer zone (diam. 50m). (Shine 2017, 7-9) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 26 February 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Friarspark (6th Division).
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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_2587 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Friarspark (6th Division) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Friarspark (6th Division) · Páirc na mBráthar
- Area
- 601,456 m² (60.15 ha, 148.62 acres)
- Civil parish
- Trim, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moyfenrath Lower
- Electoral division
- Trim Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Trim Rural electoral division: 9,201 people in 3,063 households; 74% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Commons (7th Division), Dogstown (1st Division), Dogstown (2nd Division), Kennastown, Manorland (2nd Division), Newhaggard
- Placenames
- Friarspark (6th Division) 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.