# Fairfield, Co. Westmeath: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Drumraney, barony of Kilkenny West, Co. Westmeath.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,624,446 m² (162.44 ha, 401.41 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 28,601 m² (2.86 ha, 7.07 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Drumraney, https://everytownland.com/westmeath/parish/drumraney.md
- Barony: Kilkenny West
- Electoral division: Mount Temple, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 743 people lived in 240 households in the Mount Temple electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Westmeath, https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/50946
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 230607
- Centre: latitude 53.453146, longitude -7.766712 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fairfield, from 457 m² to 243,990 m² (24.4 ha, 60.29 acres); 28 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 5397566: 243,990 m² (24.4 ha, 60.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5397566.md
- Parcel 122727: 169,371 m² (16.94 ha, 41.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/122727.md
- Parcel 120311: 83,151 m² (8.32 ha, 20.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/120311.md
- Parcel 120269: 66,241 m² (6.62 ha, 16.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/120269.md
- Parcel 120262: 63,942 m² (6.39 ha, 15.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/120262.md
- Parcel 130284: 62,763 m² (6.28 ha, 15.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/130284.md
- Parcel 122733: 61,999 m² (6.2 ha, 15.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/122733.md
- Parcel 120886: 56,208 m² (5.62 ha, 13.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/120886.md
- Parcel 122135: 55,318 m² (5.53 ha, 13.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/122135.md
- Parcel 96966: 52,916 m² (5.29 ha, 13.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/96966.md
- Parcel 97926: 50,080 m² (5.01 ha, 12.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/97926.md
- Parcel 97202: 48,666 m² (4.87 ha, 12.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/97202.md
- Parcel 97169: 46,583 m² (4.66 ha, 11.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/97169.md
- Parcel 98373: 45,364 m² (4.54 ha, 11.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/98373.md
- Parcel 98602: 43,653 m² (4.37 ha, 10.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/98602.md
- Parcel 98603: 43,328 m² (4.33 ha, 10.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/98603.md
- Parcel 120300: 40,957 m² (4.1 ha, 10.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/120300.md
- Parcel 95739: 37,949 m² (3.79 ha, 9.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/95739.md
- Parcel 120278: 35,205 m² (3.52 ha, 8.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/120278.md
- Parcel 120163: 33,317 m² (3.33 ha, 8.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/120163.md
- Parcel 95280: 31,467 m² (3.15 ha, 7.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/95280.md
- Parcel 95276: 28,601 m² (2.86 ha, 7.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/95276.md
- Parcel 97207: 27,759 m² (2.78 ha, 6.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/97207.md
- Parcel 95742: 23,718 m² (2.37 ha, 5.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/95742.md
- Parcel 4630799: 20,875 m² (2.09 ha, 5.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4630799.md
- Parcel 120575: 20,326 m² (2.03 ha, 5.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/120575.md
- Parcel 97213: 20,159 m² (2.02 ha, 4.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/97213.md
- Parcel 120151: 16,976 m² (1.7 ha, 4.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/120151.md
- Parcel 99556: 15,668 m² (1.57 ha, 3.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/99556.md
- Parcel 96962: 7,318 m² (0.73 ha, 1.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/96962.md
- Parcel 5305057: 4,357 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5305057.md
- Parcel 5873952: 4,100 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5873952.md
- Parcel 3384749: 3,990 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3384749.md
- Parcel 5093219: 3,876 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5093219.md
- Parcel 122156: 3,852 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/122156.md
- Parcel 4861380: 3,681 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4861380.md
- Parcel 120579: 3,145 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/120579.md
- Parcel 5162765: 2,612 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5162765.md
- Parcel 120577: 2,275 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/120577.md
- Parcel 99539: 2,126 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/99539.md
- Parcel 96970: 1,387 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/96970.md
- Parcel 96968: 813 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/96968.md
- Parcel 5397532: 457 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5397532.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Fairfield in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

3 applications, newest first.

- 19 Apr 2023, Westmeath County Council 2360095: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a Garage/Domestic Storage shed. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360095/0
- 30 Jun 2021, Westmeath County Council 21359: Conditional. Permission. Construction of a calf shed and ancillary works (ie concrete yards, crush and roofed manure pit, provision of external agitation points to existing slatted tanks, minor alterations to existing silage slab and walls, all for agricultural purposes only) in existing farmyard area using existing farm site entrance. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/21359/0
- 4 May 2021, Westmeath County Council 21237: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage and septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/21237/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Fairfield.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- WM023-073: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM023-073----. Situated on top of a natural rise, in gently undulating pasture with good views in all directions. Depicted on the OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork (dims. 35m N-S; 29m E-W), depicted as a polygonal-shaped field and not as an antiquity on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. Levelled earthwork described in 1971 as no surface remains visible on a natural rise of land. Outline of tree-lined hillock visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 29 July 2019
- WM023-092: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM023-092----. Folklore from Drumraney School collected by Teresa Shanley, Fearmore, Walderstown, Athlone recorded from Kathleen Duffy, Fairfield the following details about a holy well dedicated to St Patrick; 'There is a Well situated in the townsland of Bryanmore in the parish of Drumraney, County West' Meath. The well is situated in a big rock. This well is about two hundred yards to the east of the Bruigh-da-Choga and also about two hundred yards from a boreen which is the boundary line between the townslands of Bryanmore and Fairfield. St. Patrick went through this land at night, he got thirsty and got a drink from the well. There are fourteen rocks around the well, there are seven near it and seven away from it. On all the rocks you can see the track of where St Patrick knelt, and on one big rock you can see the track where he sat. The water from the well cures stomach trouble and warts. The people that suffer from stomach trouble drink the water to get cured and the people that have warts apply the water to them. Stations have to be done every three years in succession to get cured. There is a certain appointed to do these stations and that is St Patrick's day. On this day all the local people go to the well to pray and they put buttons and hairpins into the well. Long ago there was a bush spreading over the well, but it got blown down by the wind and there was no other bush planted in its place. But when it was there it was the custom to hang pieces of cloth and ribbons on it' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0747, Page 503; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5009128/4989358). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 15 August 2023

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Fairfield, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 Fairfield.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/fairfield.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/fairfield.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/fairfield.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Fairfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath: https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballycloghduff (Molston): https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ballycloghduff-molston.md
- Ballysallagh: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/ballysallagh.md
- Bryanmore Lower: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/bryanmore-lower.md
- Bryanmore Upper: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/bryanmore-upper.md
- Cloghbreen: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/cloghbreen.md
- Creeve: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/creeve-230504.md
- Curraghroodle: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/curraghroodle.md
- Fearmore: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/fearmore-230623.md
- Killeenatoor: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/killeenatoor.md
- Kiltober: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/kiltober-230853.md
- Legan: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/legan-230893.md
- Lissanode: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/lissanode.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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