Astagob
Townland in the civil parish of Castleknock, barony of Castleknock, Co. Dublin; in Irish Steach Gob
- Area
- 36.5 ha
- 90 acres
- Land parcels
- 73
- registered freehold, median 1,977 m²
- Zoning
- G3
- HA - High Amenity
- Planning
- 38
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Astagob, from 12 m² to 85,050 m² (8.5 ha, 21.02 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3HA - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 83 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2RS - Residential (Existing residential)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3HA-LV (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 1 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
22 Jun 2026Refuse permission for retention
Retention of a freeform stretch tent (126 sqm) supported by 12 no. pos
Retention · Fingal County Council, FW26A/0251E
28 May 2026Grant permission & grant retention
Retention Permission and Planning Permission is sought for development
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, FW26A/0216E
8 May 2026Grant permission
Planning Permission sought for detached garage, canopy balcony to side
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW26A/0188E
2 Mar 2026Grant permission for retention
Retention permission for first floor extension to side of house, groun
Retention · Fingal County Council, FW26A/0074E
8 Dec 2025Refuse permission
Permission is sought for a private, appointment-only sauna and hydroth
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW25A/0529
5 Nov 2025Invalid application
The development will consist of a private appointment only sauna and
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW25A/0471
19 Sept 2025Refuse permission for retention
Permission for retention
Retention · Fingal County Council, FW25A/0401
17 Sept 2025Invalid application
Permission for retention and completion
Retention · Fingal County Council, FW25A/0399
15 Sept 2025Invalid application
Permission for retention and completion of a retaining wall
Retention · Fingal County Council, FW25A/0394
5 Sept 2025Invalid application
Planning permission is sought for retention and completion
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, FW25A/0379
25 Aug 2025Refuse permission
Permission to resstore the
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW25A/0358
12 Aug 2025Invalid application
Planning Permission to restore the pre-1963 dwelling 108 sq.m. compris
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW25A/0337
18 Jul 2025Refuse permission
Erection of a freestanding ancillary timberclad hut (including a pizza
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW25A/0303E
17 Jun 2025Grant permission
Planning permission sought
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW25A/0258
30 May 2025Refuse permission & refuse retention
Retention permission and planning permission is sought by Paul O’Brien
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, FW25A/0232E
27 May 2025Invalid application
Permission to restrore the
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW25A/0224
21 Feb 2025Refuse permission for retention
‘RETENTION permission for (i) the erection of a food truck known as ‘G
Retention · Fingal County Council, FW25A/0063E
27 Jan 2025Refuse permission
The development shall consist of demolition of existing outhouse and b
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW25A/0022E
19 Nov 2024Grant permission
Planning Permission to construct a dome shaped potting shed measuring
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW24A/0484
14 Nov 2024Invalid application
Permission to construct a dome shaped potting
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW24A/0473
1 Nov 2024Invalid application
Planning permission is sought to construct a dome shaped potting shed
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW24A/0449
22 Jul 2024Refuse permission for retention
Modifications including extensions to the existing 4-bed, detached
Retention · Fingal County Council, FW24A/0304E
15 May 2024Grant permission
Planning Permission sought for partial
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW24A/0207
10 Apr 2024Invalid application
Planning Permission for two storey extension to side and rear to inclu
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW24A/0149
26 Jul 2023Grant permission
Planning permission for renovations to existing dwelling to include re
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW23A/0221
The 25 most recent of 38 applications.
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Liffey Valley 000128
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Astagob.
Architectural heritage
- San Giovanni, house, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey house, c.1870, with lean-to extension to rear c.1970. Outbuilding to east.ROOF: Double pitched tiled roof with clay ridge tiles; red brick chimney stacks flush with gables. WALLS: Rough cast rendered wall on nap rendered plinth. OPENINGS: Square headed window openings; rendered soffits, reveals and cills surrounding 2/2 timber sash windows; timber casement window to-lean elevation; square headed door opening; rendered soffits and reveals surrounding modern hardwood door.
- Strawberry Hall, house, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey red brick house, c.1890. Multiple-bay single-storey L-shaped extension to south, c.1970, housing public house.ROOF: Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles; double pitched tiled extension roof and porch roofs; red brick chimney stacks with projecting stretcher course; concrete coping; clay pots; cast-iron rainwater goods. WALLS: Red brick; English garden wall bond; soldier course below gutters; nap rendered side elevation; single-storey wing: nap rendered side and front elevations on nap rendered plinth; rough cast rendered rear on plinth course. OPENINGS: Segmental headed window openings; patent rendered soffits, reveals and granite cills surrounding 2/2 timber sash windows.
- Carroll's Cottage, house, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey house, c.1845, retaining original fenestration and doors. Single-storey extension to east.ROOF: Double pitch corrugated iron roof; rendered brick chimney stacks with clay pots; cast-iron rainwater goods; WALLS: Rough cast render. OPENINGS: Square headed rough cast render soffits and reveals; brick cills; 6/6 timber sashes; convex sash horns; two front doors, both square headed with rough cast render reveals; original timber doors; door to left is tongue and grooved timber panelled; door to right, four flat panelled timber door.
- Water pump, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Cast-iron water pump, c.1895, of round profile. Now missing parts.
- Post box, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
Description
Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c.1905, with 'ER VII' monogram. Front cover missing.
- The Wren's Nest, house, 1700–1760 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1760, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor four-bay single-storey flat-roofed projection; single-bay (five-bay deep) single-storey central return (north) originally single-bay (two-bay deep) single-storey. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Extended, 1975, producing present composition. Hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on hipped slate roof (north), ridge tiles, replacement engineered brick chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on roughcast eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast battered walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed central window opening (porch) with concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement window. Square-headed window openings (ground floor) with sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows behind wrought iron bars. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with sills, and concealed dressings framing four-over-four timber sash windows. Interior including reclaimed timber work inscribed "1588". Set back from line of road with tarmacadam verge to front.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately high (inferred), moderately low, moderately low (inferred), 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_3085 (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 Astagob with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Astagob · Steach Gob
- Area
- 365,261 m² (36.53 ha, 90.26 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castleknock, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castleknock
- Electoral division
- Castleknock-Knockmaroon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castleknock-Knockmaroon electoral division: 20,967 people in 6,937 households; 74% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Astagob, Brooklawn, Castleknock, Diswellstown, Fonthill, Palmerston Lower, Quarryvale
- Placenames
- Astagob 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.