Folistown

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Folistown, from 190 m² to 582,221 m² (58.22 ha, 143.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 · 48 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 6 Oct 2025Conditional

  the development will consist of a) demolition of the existing detached single-storey dwelling bungalow and associated outbuilding, b) construction of a new 279 sq.m. detached, replacement two-storey dwelling house with a single-storey block extension to the rear, c) construction of a detached single-storey garage structure, d) retention and improvement of the existing vehicular entrance and front boundary wall, e) installation of a new proprietary wastewater treatment unit and associated polishing filter, f) all ancillary site development works, including site levelling, associated site drainage and landscaping. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2561063

• 16 Feb 2024Refused

  the construction of a single storey, detached, farm manager's cottage, accessed via the existing vehicular entrance gateway, new proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, along with all associated services, service connections, landscape and site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2459

• 20 Mar 2023Conditional

  the construction of buildings and structures for use in bloodstock related agricultural industry to include (a) an indoor horse arena (1740sq/mts), (b) a haybarn for feed, machinery and general agricultural material storage (763.58 sq/mts), (c) an indoor stock shed for horses (763.58 sq/mts) incl. a fully permeable surfaced stock outdoor run area, (d) fully permeable surfaced driveways and aprons for general accessibility around the farmyard, (e) and an outdoor dungstead with an underground "run-off" tank together with all associated landscaping, site works and services. Significant Further Information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, 23299

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 Folistown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Folistown.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Folistown, about 1 in 20 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2964 (ZIP).

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

Name

Folistown

Area

790,872 m² (79.09 ha, 195.43 acres)

Civil parish

Dunboyne, and its townlands

Barony

Dunboyne

Electoral division

Dunboyne, the unit of the census

Census 2022

10,698 people lived in 3,434 households in the Dunboyne electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Herbertstown, Killester, Piercetown, Rathbeggan

Placenames

Folistown 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.