Fringestown

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fringestown, from 479 m² to 667,271 m² (66.73 ha, 164.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 · 60 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 26 Nov 2025Conditional

  construction of a two storey detached house, waste water treatment unit and percolation area and new entrance onto the public road. Significant Further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2561281

• 2 Oct 2024Conditional

  planning permission for a proposed dwelling house, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance onto the public road, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2460811

• 2 Apr 2024Conditional

  new 8 bay dry bed shed, concrete apron and 2 no. external underground slatted tanks on existing farmyard and all works ancillary to the overall development on site

  Permission · Meath County Council, 24150

• 11 Mar 2022Conditional

  the retention of an extension to rear of existing residence

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 22319

• 18 Jun 2019Conditional

  the installation of 163.2 m sq of Solar Panels on the roof of an existing farm building and to carry out any associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, KA190794

• 29 Jan 2018Conditional

  (1) the retention of domestic entrance from the public road. (2) Retention of increase in floor area, changes to plan layout and elevations of dwelling from that granted planning permission under planning file reference NA20222.

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA180068

• 19 Jan 2018Conditional

  construction of a single storey side extension to existing detached bungalow and all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, KA180040

• 10 Mar 2017Conditional

  the development consists of a Cattle Cubicle Housing Unit, Milking Parlour, Stock Collection Yards, Concrete Aprons and all site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, KA170252

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 Fringestown.

Recorded monuments

• ME012-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a rise in a slight hollow of a gently undulating landscape. This feature is not depicted on any map but it is faintly visible on OSI images (1995, 2005, 2013-2018) as well as various views on Google Earth. It was described in 1968 (SMR file) as a subcircular raised area (dims 40m NNW-SSE; 35m ENE-WSW) defined by scarp (at S: Wth 6m; H 1.2m; at N: Wth 5.5m; H 1.3m). There was no visible fosse, but the entrance might be on the slighter scarp at E. See the attached enhanced view from OSAP (1995) 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 upload: 10 July 2007 Amended: 2 August 2022

• ME012-053 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low knoll. A magnetic gradiometer survey (19R0177) conducted by J. Nicholls on behalf of Meath County Council identified an oval area (int. dims c. 32m plus WNW-ESE; c. 27m NNE-SSW) defined by a gapped fosse-like feature that is truncated by a N-S field bank at W and has discontinuities at NE, E and SE (Nicholls 2019, 10). Two parallel lines of ditches extending off to the SW and one extending off to the NW could be elements of an attached field system. Archaeological testing (19E0565) confirmed the presence of the fosse (Wth 1.2-2m) as a silt-filled feature at four points, with some fire-reddening of the inner edge in some places. Some animal bone was recovered from its surface at two points where the topsoil could be seen dipping into the fold of the fosse, but it was not excavated at any point. (Moore 2019, 14-20) See the attached plan from Moore (2019, Fig. 8) 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 Fringestown.

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.

Terrain model

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

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 Fringestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Fringestown

Area

1,631,718 m² (163.17 ha, 403.21 acres)

Civil parish

Castletown, and its townlands

Barony

Morgallion

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castletown electoral division: 1,034 people in 339 households; 88% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carnacop, Mitchelstown, Painestown, Stephenstown, Stokesquarter

Placenames

Fringestown 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.