Fairfield

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fairfield, from 457 m² to 243,990 m² (24.4 ha, 60.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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.

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

• 19 Apr 2023Conditional

  construction of a Garage/Domestic Storage shed

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2360095

• 30 Jun 2021Conditional

  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

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 21359

• 4 May 2021Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage and septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21237

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 Fairfield.

Recorded monuments

• WM023-073 Enclosure
  Description

  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
  Description

  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

Architectural heritage

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

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).

No address of the register names Fairfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Fairfield

Area

1,624,446 m² (162.44 ha, 401.41 acres)

Civil parish

Drumraney, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkenny West

Electoral division

Mount Temple, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycloghduff (molston), Ballysallagh, Bryanmore Lower, Bryanmore Upper, Cloghbreen, Creeve, Curraghroodle, Fearmore, Killeenatoor, Kiltober, Legan, Lissanode

Placenames

Fairfield on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.