Barfordstown

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barfordstown, from 41 m² to 419,381 m² (41.94 ha, 103.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 50 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 22 Dec 2025Refused

  for infilling of lands with material consisting of clean, uncontaminated soil and stones, including article 27 material (by-product), to raise the levels and improve the land for agricultural purposes. permission is also sought for one temporary portable toilet, one wheel wash facility and one temporary onsite portacabin which will serve as an office for the duration of the infilling process. Also, a Certificate of Registration waste permit (up to 25,000 tonnes) will be sought from Meath County Council Environment Section.

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2660031

• 29 Sept 2025Conditional

  the development will consist of an application to construct an extension to the rear (south) and to the side (west) of the existing dwelling house, to decommission the existing septic tank and to construct a new waste water treatment system and percolation area to EPA recommendations, together with all works ancillary to the proposed development

  Permission · Meath County Council, 25183

• 18 Oct 2021Conditional

  retention of a detached garage to the side & rear of the existing house, retention of an external covered patio area to the side of the existing house and retention of a garden fence to the front of the existing house

  Retention · Meath County Council, 212015

• 30 Jul 2019Conditional

  the demolition of an existing single storey rear extension, provision of a two storey rear extension, internal alterations to the existing house and alterations to the existing house front & side elevations. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, KA191007

• 10 May 2019N/a

  the demolition of an existing single storey rear extension, provision of a two storey rear extension, internal alterations to the existing house and alterations to the existing house front & side elevations

  Permission · Meath County Council, KA190580

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 Barfordstown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Barfordstown.

Architectural heritage

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

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

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Barfordstown · Baile Bharfard

Area

1,148,636 m² (114.86 ha, 283.83 acres)

Civil parish

Burry, and its townlands

Barony

Kells Upper

Electoral division

Burry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

281 people lived in 91 households in the Burry electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balrath Demesne, Boolies, Calliaghstown, Lackmelch, Pepperstown, Rafeehan, Rockfield, Toberultan

Placenames

Barfordstown 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.