Gafney Little

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gafney Little, from 5,268 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres) to 203,803 m² (20.38 ha, 50.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 15 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

No planning application touches the townland of Gafney Little in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Gafney Little.

Recorded monuments

• ME027-101 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  First identified by M. Doutré from New Zealand on Google Earth (2013), it is also visible on Bing images (2013) and faintly on the OSI series (1995). This site is situated on a rise in a slight E-W valley with a small canalised stream c. 145m to the S. The ridge of Bellewstown, which is c. 100m higher, rises over the site c. 800m to the S. This is a circular area (diam. c. 32m) defined by a single fosse feature. An entrance cannot be identified but the full extent of the perimeter is not visible on any of the images, particularly N-SE and S-WNW. The arc of an internal ring-ditch (diam. c. 10m) is visible NW-E-SE in the S part of the interior only on the Google image. The rath (ME027-100----) is c. 180m further along the valley to the W and ring-ditch (ME027-055----) is on a slight E-W ridge c. 165m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 July, 2014

• ME027-120 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in a fold between higher ground to the E and W at the N foot of the E-W Bellewstown Ridge. The faint cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by a single fosse is visible on Apple Maps which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. It is also faintly visible on Digital Globe (c. 2013), and it was first reported by Anthony Murphy. See the attached enhanced view from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 February 2020

• ME027-121 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated on a rise towards the bottom of the N-facing slope of the E-W Bellewstown Ridge. The cropmark of a small enclosure (diam. c. 5m) defined by a slight fosse is visible only on Apple Maps which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. It was first reported by Anthony Murphy. See the attached enhanced view from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 February 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Gafney Little, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Gafney Little

Area

313,708 m² (31.37 ha, 77.52 acres)

Civil parish

Duleek, and its townlands

Barony

Duleek Upper

Electoral division

Ardcath, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,119 people lived in 721 households in the Ardcath electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagor, Beaumont, Bellewstown, Gafney, Gafney, Hilltown Little

Placenames

Gafney Little 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.