Annaghaskin
Townland in the civil parish of Rathmichael, barony of Rathdown, Co. Dublin; in Irish Eanach Eascann
- Area
- 14.6 ha
- 36 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 2,858 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Objective G
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Annaghaskin, from 61 m² to 41,866 m² (4.19 ha, 10.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3Objective G (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Objective B (Agriculture)
COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
31 Mar 2026Request additional information
Permission is sought for the change of use from agricultural barn / horse stable
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0251/WEB
30 Mar 2026Grant permission
Permission is sought for development at the main residential building Scalp farm
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0242/WEB
25 Mar 2026Declare application invalid
Permission is sought for development at the main residential building Scalp farm
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0229/WEB
20 May 2025S5 dec exempt
a)Roof Repair and Re-Slating b) Masonry consolidation c) Fenestration Reinstatem
Section 5 · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, REF9425
17 Feb 2023N/a
dwelling house and detached domestic garage with dual access entrance, driveway, domestic wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, drainage
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23148
17 May 2021Grant permission
Permission is sought for development comprising
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D21A/0445
9 Jun 2020Refused
a two storey stable block, consisting of six number horse stables & seven number pony stables, a wheelchair accessible toilet & two number stairwells at ground floor level, tack room, kitchen/dining/lounge, male & female changing rooms and toilets, pump to existing wastewater treatment plant on site, and an office at first floor level (total floor area 494.6 sqm). Permission is also sought for two number proposed horse walkers (305.8sqm) and horse lunge (305.8 sqm) with proposed dung heap/effluent tank (18.5 sqm). Permission is also sought for sixteen number vehicle parking spaces, cross country gallop, agricultural shed (442.2 sqm), to install equine fencing along the proposed driveway, a culvert over the stream and to raise the site by 2.7 meters average to accommodate development and all associated site works at he above address. A Natura Impact Statement has been submitted with this application. There is a concurrent planning application running with Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for a roofed exercise arena, floodlights on existing sand arena and associated works which will link into the above proposed development
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20536
6 May 2020Withdraw the application
Permission for a roofed exercise arena (3173.7 sqm)
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D20A/0319
6 May 2020N/a
a two storey stable block, consisting of six number horse stables & seven number pony stables, a wheelchair accessible toilet & two number stairwells at ground floor level, tack room, kitchen/dining/lounge, male & female changing rooms and toilets, pump to existing waste water treatment plant onsite, and an office at first floor level (total floor area 494.6 sqm). Permission is also sought for two number proposed horse walkers (305.8 sqm) and horse lunge (305.8 sqm) with proposed dung heap/effluent tank (18.5 sqm). Permission is also sought for sixteen number vehicle parking spaces, cross country gallop, agricultural shed (442.2 sqm), to install equine fencing along the proposed driveway, a culvert over the stream and to raise the site by 2.7 meters average to accommodate development and all associated site works at the above address. A Natura Impact Statement has been submitted with this application. There is a concurrent planning application running with Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council for a roofed exercise arena and associated works which will link into the above proposed development
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20422
11 Apr 2017Grant permission
Permission for construction of a one and a half storey, four bedroom dwelling
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D17A/0335
7 Oct 2016Grant permission
Permission is sought for limited additional uses associated with the operation o
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D16A/0735
27 May 2016Withdraw the application
Permission for a one and a half storey, four bedroom dwelling house
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D16A/0385
30 Apr 2003Grant permission
New 27 hole golf course and ancillary practice facilities;
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D03A/0410
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Annaghaskin.
Recorded monuments
- DU026-061 Enclosure
Description
The enclosure is situated on gentle S-facing slopes in improved pasture with views onto the Sugarloaf Mountains in the S. An aerial photograph taken in 1971 (FSI 3.658/7) shows cropmark evidence for a subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) with a levelled field boundary extending from the N portion (L 45m). The enclosure is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy. Revised upload on: 21 April 2018.
Architectural heritage
- Scalp Farm, farm house, 1870–1875 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, dated 1871, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey gabled advanced end bay. Occupied, 1911. Refenestrated. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables on cut-granite "Cavetto" kneelers with cement rendered chimney stacks to apexes having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards retaining cast-iron downpipes. Tuck pointed snecked rock faced granite walls with cut-granite flush quoins to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening into farmhouse with cut-granite block-and-start surround framing timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and cut-granite block-and-start surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds on a slightly elevated 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3316 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Annaghaskin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Annaghaskin · Eanach Eascann
- Area
- 146,078 m² (14.61 ha, 36.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathmichael, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathdown
- Electoral division
- Shankill-Rathmichael, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Shankill-Rathmichael electoral division: 5,731 people in 2,030 households; 70% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barnaslingan, Killegar (Co. Wicklow), Monastery (Co. Wicklow), Phrompstown
- Placenames
- Annaghaskin 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.