Roristown
Townland in the civil parish of Trim, barony of Moyfenrath Lower, Co. Meath
- Area
- 101.4 ha
- 251 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 40,614 m² (4.06 ha, 10.04 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Roristown, from 6,465 m² (0.65 ha, 1.6 acres) to 503,040 m² (50.3 ha, 124.3 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 35 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
17 Nov 2025N/a
a) Construction of an agricultural building to include a new milking parlour, dairy & ancillary rooms, drafting & handling facilities, waiting yard, external milk silo, meal bin, water storage tank & underground slatted soiled water storage tanks, calving area and calf rearing area. b) Construction of an agricultural livestock shed to include cubicles, straw bedded area, feeding area and underground slatted slurry storage tanks. c) Construction of 2 no. silage pits, a maize pit and a Dungstead and all associated site works. Please Note: a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with this application
Permission · Meath County Council, 2561249
3 Nov 2025N/a
a) Construction of an agricultural building to include a new milking parlour, dairy & ancillary rooms, drafting & handling facilities, waiting yard, external milk silo, meal bin, water storage tank & underground slatted soiled water storage tanks, calving area and calf rearing area. b) Construction of an agricultural livestock shed to include cubicles, straw bedded area, feeding area and underground slatted slurry storage tanks. c) Construction of 2 no. silage pits, a maize pit and a Dungstead and all associated site works. Please Note: a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with this application
Permission · Meath County Council, 2561184
20 Jun 2025Conditional
the development will consist of the construction of a two storey type dwelling, detached domestic garage, a waste water treatment system, new entrance arrangement and all associated site works on this site
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2560633
11 Apr 2023Refused
the construction of a two storey style dwelling, detached domestic garage, a domestic wastewater disposal system, new site entrance and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 23386
6 Apr 2021Conditional
the development will consist of revisions to an existing Grant of Permission, ref. no. TA/1917025 and will include the following: (1) Change of house type and design to entirely single storied. (2) Minor revisions to the site layout to include repositioning the house and domestic garage. (3) All ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 21634
16 Dec 2019Conditional
(1) To construct a part single, part two storied dwelling house and a detached domestic garage.(2)To install a wastewater treatment unit and percolation area. (3) To construct a stables building, dungstead and effluent collection tank. (4) To make a new entrance onto the road along with all ancillary site development works. Significant Further Information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, TA191702
19 Jun 2017Conditional
to construct a farm building consisting of following: (A) Staff canteen, shower, toilet and rest areas. (B) Farm office, animal welfare room and ancillary storage area. (C) To install a waste water treatment unit and percolation area. (D) Staff car parking area along with all ancillary site development works (Screening for Appropriate Assessment submitted)
Permission · Meath County Council, TA170709
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
- Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Roristown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Roristown.
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_2558 (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 Roristown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Roristown
- Area
- 1,014,423 m² (101.44 ha, 250.67 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
- Bellewstown, Derrinydaly, Kennastown, Newhaggard, Newtownmoynagh
- Placenames
- Roristown 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.