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Fyanstown

Map: It is located at 53° 43' 23" N, 6° 48' 55" W.

Area: Fyanstown has an area of 1,949,640 m² / 194.96 hectares / 1.9496 km² - 0.75 square miles - 481.77 acres / 481 acres, 3 roods, 2 perches Nationwide, it is the 9206th largest town land. Within Co. Meath, it is the 395th largest townland

Borders: Fyanstown borders the following other townlands: Bloomsberry to the south; Kilmainham to the south; Oristown to the east; Rossmeen to the north; Sedenrath to the west.

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Genealogy: Origin of the name Fyanstown

Fyanstown Community Council

Gaelic Football For a small community Fyanstown including Rosmeen and Sedanrath fielded both ladies and mens football teams from the mid 1970's. The teams fielded players from within the community and from neighbouring communities but also drew players from afar.

Ladies GAA Football: The origin of Ladies GAA Football officially in Ireland is strongly linked to Fyanstown GAA Club. A representative from each province got together to discuss the rules of ladies football and it was in Ultan Fitzpatrick’s kitchen that they met on an historical day. Cavan represented Ulster, Munster was represented by Waterford, and Conaught was represented by Galway and Meath represented Leinster. It was over tea and sandwiches some of the rules of ladies football were decided such as: 1. Clean pick up of ball from the ground; 2. No one allowed attempting to kick the ball if another’s hand is near the ball; 3. No pulling hair, which appeared to be a major foul.

When competitions In Meath were first officially established and a Meath Ladies GAA committee was formed Ultan Fitzpatrick, Fyanstown, was one of the main people to help at that time. On the 1st May 1976 Ladies GAA was formed and in Navan at a meeting on the Wednesday night a new Meath Ladies Gaelic Football County Board was formed and elected on the Committee included Mary Fitzpatrick, Fyanstown. Mr. Ultan Fitzpatrick and a representative from Leinster Council also attended and under his guidance the Co. Board was set up. In 1976, teams registered to play in the competition with Fyanstown, Moynalty, Cormeen, Moylagh, Bellewstown and Simonstown being some of them. They were all adult clubs. It was agreed to start off with eleven aside to enable other clubs affiliate and in 1976 it was eight clubs in two different divisions with winners and runners up of each division playing each other. Eight teams entered for the County Championship and the following first round draw was made – Castletown, Colmcille Gaels, Simonstown Gaels, Kells P.O., Bellewstown, Fyanstown, O’Mahony’s and Cormeen. Cormeen were the runners up of their division and they played the winners of the other division who were Simonstown. O’Mahonys played the runners up Simonstown. Cormeen won the county championship on 15th Sept 1976. In 1977 it was proposed that the numbers of players be increased to 15. Again Cormeen were victorious against Moylagh on the 10-09-76

Mens GAA Football Fyanstown also fielded an adult mens football team from 1976 until 1985 when the club was disbanded. Fyanstown's mens GAA was affiliated with the Meath County Board on the 1st February 1976.