Newtown or Ballyfallon

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newtown or Ballyfallon, from 210 m² to 298,085 m² (29.81 ha, 73.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 · 77 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 15 May 2025Conditional

  the development consists of Permission for Dry Fodder Store/Calving Unit & Retention of an Existing Cattle Housing Unit over Existing Underground Slurry Storage Tank and all site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2590

• 5 May 2017Conditional

  the development consists of the relocation and extension of existing agricultural shed and all associated site works. The area of the existing agricultural shed is 55sq.m and area of proposed extension is 84sq.m to be used for storage of dry matter materials

  Permission · Meath County Council, KA170486

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
• Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232

Recorded monuments

• ME029-031 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  Situated in a low-lying landscape with the canalised NNW-SSE Athboy River c. 40m to the E. It is on land that was once part of the demesne of Ballyfallon House, which is c. 400m to the SW. A large circular enclosure (diam. c. 90m NW-SE; c. 85m NE-SW) is visible on Google Earth (17/01/2020) and other aerial images. It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere. See the attached views from (_01) Google Earth (17/01/2020) and (_02) Digital Globe (2011-13) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 September 2020

• ME030-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the W bank of a NW-SE section of the Athboy River with the stream c. 80m to the NE. It is not depicted on any map but is visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: N 76, 77, 96, 97) but only barely on later series. It was described in 1985 (SMR file) as a subcircular grass-covered area (dims 63m N-S; 57m E-W) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth of base c. 3m; int. H 0.5m) ESE-W, and a complete fosse (Wth of top 4-6m; int. D 0.4m at E to 1m at S; ext. D 0.2m). There was a wide gap (Wth of base 7m) in the bank at SW. 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: 17 April 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Newtown or Ballyfallon.

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 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_2484 (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 Newtown or Ballyfallon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Newtown or Ballyfallon · Béal Átha Fallúin

Area

2,630,519 m² (263.05 ha, 650.02 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

Clonmore, Fordrath, Kildalkey, Mitchelstown, Otterstown, Stocks, Vessingtown

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Newtown or Ballyfallon 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.