Fosterstown

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fosterstown, from 26 m² to 124,209 m² (12.42 ha, 30.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 · 34 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5G1 - Community Infrastructure (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 21 Dec 2022Conditional

  single storey extension to side/rear of existing dwelling, together with modifications to existing elevations and internal plan layout. The development also includes de-commissioning of existing septic tank and installation of new proprietary waste water treatment and polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 221697

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 Fosterstown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Fosterstown.

Architectural heritage

• Fosterstown House, country house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, with return to rear. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with render plat bands. Timber sash windows with stone sills. Timber panelled double doors flanked by columns, with cornice and fanlight having rusticated surround above. Outbuildings to site.

• Fosterstown House, gate lodge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1800, with central porch, now vacant. Hipped thatched roof with red brick chimneystack. Rendered walls. Replacement windows and doors. Rendered gate piers with cast-iron gates to site. Cast-iron railings to site.

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_2587 (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 Fosterstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Fosterstown

Area

367,713 m² (36.77 ha, 90.86 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

Commons (7th Division), Friarspark (5th Division), Shanlothe, Stonehall

Placenames

Fosterstown 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.