# Backstown, Co. Dublin: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Aderrig, barony of Newcastle, Co. Dublin; in Irish Bacastún.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 838,577 m² (83.86 ha, 207.22 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 44,324 m² (4.43 ha, 10.95 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P1 RU, the zone with the most parcels
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 20 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Aderrig, https://everytownland.com/dublin/parish/aderrig.md
- Barony: Newcastle
- Electoral division: Lucan-St. Helens, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 16,805 people lived in 5,363 households in the Lucan-St. Helens electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 59% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Dublin, https://everytownland.com/dublin.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/17111
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 260024
- Centre: latitude 53.346426, longitude -6.488321 (WGS 84)

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

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Backstown, from 209 m² to 332,092 m² (33.21 ha, 82.06 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1905989: 332,092 m² (33.21 ha, 82.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1905989.md
- Parcel 1808338: 217,553 m² (21.76 ha, 53.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1808338.md
- Parcel 1808339: 122,579 m² (12.26 ha, 30.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1808339.md
- Parcel 1808340: 86,126 m² (8.61 ha, 21.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1808340.md
- Parcel 1905991: 44,324 m² (4.43 ha, 10.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1905991.md
- Parcel 1905990: 28,950 m² (2.89 ha, 7.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1905990.md
- Parcel 5629098: 3,411 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5629098.md
- Parcel 5629113: 3,335 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5629113.md
- Parcel 5629099: 209 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5629099.md

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

- P1 RU (Agriculture): South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin; 22 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.sdcc.ie/en/devplan2022/adopted-plan/
- G1 OS (Open space, park): South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin; 4 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.sdcc.ie/en/devplan2022/adopted-plan/

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

20 applications, newest first.

- 23 Feb 2024, South Dublin County Council ED24/0009: Declared exempt. Declaration of exemption sect. 5. The installation of a system of 'Visual Aids to Navigation', including all associated electrical ducting, an aeronautical beacon, runway edge lights, runway lead-in lights, runway threshold identification lights, Precision Approach Path Indicators (PAPI's), runway end lights, stopway lights, runway guard lights, stop-bars, taxiway edge lights, apron floodlighting and wind-direction indicator (windcone) lights. The standardisation of the width of the straight sections of all taxiways to 11m (with wider than 11m for turns). (Please refer to the cover letter enclosed within for a detailed description of the proposed development). File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/65631
- 10 Jul 2019, South Dublin County Council SD19A/0112: Grant permission. Permission. 24m multi-user free standing structure carrying telecommunications equipment, together with associated telecommunication cabinets; fencing; a 770m long access track; hardstand area and all associated site development works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/56157
- 20 May 2019, South Dublin County Council SD19A/0167: Grant permission. Permission. 3 new holes comprising of new tees, fairways, greens, bunkers, pathways and other ancillary works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/56446
- 15 Nov 2018, South Dublin County Council SD18A/0411: Grant permission. Permission. Construction of a machinery shed with ancillary site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/55318
- 30 Jan 2018, South Dublin County Council SD18A/0028: Refuse permission. Permission, 1 home. Single storey 242sq.m, four bedroom dwelling, new site entrance, sewage treatment and all associated site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/53623
- 21 Dec 2017, South Dublin County Council SD178/0009: Part 8 approved by council. Application under part 8. The proposed Celbridge Link Road is a new two-way single carriageway road alignment linking the Adamstown SDZ lands to the Celbridge Road (R403), a distance of approximately 810m in length. The Proposed Scheme includes the following works: 1. Construction of a new two-way single carriageway road alignment linking the Adamstown SDZ lands to the Celbridge Road (R403) approx. 810m in length. 2. Construction of 810m of new footpaths and cycle tracks in both directions. 3. New signalised junction where the proposed Celbridge Link Road meets the Celbridge Road (R403). 4. New uncontrolled T-junction where the proposed Celbridge Link Road meets Tubber Lane. This junction will be constructed to allow for future potential upgrade to a signal controlled junction. 5. New vehicular cul-de-sac with turning facilities on Tubber Lane on the eastern side of the proposed Celbridge Link Road. Pedestrian and Cycle access will be maintained along Tubber Lane. 6. Construction of boundary treatments and appropriate landscaping works and Public Lighting. 7.Drainage, public lighting and ancillary service works. An Environmental Report has been prepared in respect of the proposed works. The proposed Road Scheme has undergone Appropriate Assessment Screening under the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) and it has been determined that an Appropriate Assessment is not required. Plans and particulars of the proposed development will be available for inspection or purchase at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy From 21 December 2017 to 07 February 2018 at the following locations: South Dublin County Council, County Hall, Tallaght, Dublin 24 between the hours of 9am to 5pm Monday to Thursday and 9am to 4.30pm Friday (Inspection only) between the hours of 9am to 4:30pm Monday to Thursday and 9am to 3.30pm Friday (Inspection and Purchase). Tallaght Library, Library Square, Tallaght, Dublin 24 (between the hours of 9.45am to 8 pm Monday to Thursday and 9.45am to 4.30pm Friday and Saturday) (Inspection only). Lucan Library, Supervalu Shopping Centre, Adamstown Road, Lucan, Co. Dublin (between the hours of 9.45am to 8 pm Monday to Thursday and 9.45am to 4.30pm Friday and Saturday) (Inspection only). Submissions and observations on the proposed Celbridge Link Road can be made online and in writing to the addresses below between 21 December 2017 to 21 February 2018 inclusive (excl. Public Holidays) as follows: Online: at ttps://consult.sdublincoco.ie up to 12.00 Midnight on the 21 February 2018 OR By Post: In writing to the Senior Executive Officer, Forward Planning Section, Land Use, Planning and Transportation, South Dublin County Council, County Hall, Tallaght, Dublin 24. To arrive no later than 5.00pm 21 February 2018. NOTE: Please make your submission by one medium only. Only submissions received by 21 February 2018 and addressed as set out above, will be considered. Submissions cannot be accepted in any other format or to any other postal address. Submissions and observations should state the name, address, and, where relevant, details of any organisation, community group or company etc. which you represent. All comments including the names and addresses of those making the comments, submitted to the Council with regards to the Part 8 Proposed Celbridge Link Road will form a report to be presented to South Dublin County Council, and will form part of a public document. https://consult.sdublincoco.ie/en/consultation/celbridge-link-road. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/53443
- 4 Nov 2008, South Dublin County Council SD08A/0757: Grant permission. Permission. Demolition of existing sub standard cottage and replacement with new single storey detached four bedroom bungalow, with replacement Biocycle Septic Tank and percolation area and demolition of existing shed to rear of house.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/38000
- 13 Oct 2008, South Dublin County Council SD08A/0703: Grant permission & grant retention. Permission and retention. The construction of a single and part two storey detached building for use for staff facilities, toilet, storage and associated development including the enclosure of a service yard by new walling and gates and the relocation of fuel storage tanks and the extension of the car parking areas with associated lighting columns etc. The development also consists of the retention of the existing single storey machinery shed and its incorporating into the new building.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/37842
- 18 Jul 2008, South Dublin County Council SD08A/0506: Refuse permission. Permission, 1 home. Internal alterations and extension to, and replacement of existing sub standard roof over existing house. Also for erection of new attached three bedroom dormer bungalow to rear with replacement Biocycle Septic Tank and percolation area and demolition of existing shed in rear garden.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/37148
- 14 May 2008, South Dublin County Council SD08A/0327: Invalid - site notice. Permission, 1 home. Internal alterations and extensions to, and replacement of existing sub standard roof over existing house. Also for erection of new attached two bedroom dormer bungalow to rear with replacement Biocycle Septic Tank and percolation area and demolition of existing shed in rear garden.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/36493
- 4 Dec 2007, South Dublin County Council SD07A/0960: Grant permission. Permission. Single storey detached building to contain on course male and female toilets.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/35006
- 16 Feb 2007, South Dublin County Council SD06A/0945: Grant permission. Permission. Construction of a 6m x 25m machinery shed with ancillary site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/30699
- 5 Oct 2006, South Dublin County Council SD06A/0859: Grant permission. Permission. Viewing balcony at first floor level of the northeast & northwest facing elevations of clubhouse with associated changes to elevations.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/30369
- 2 Aug 2006, South Dublin County Council SD06A/0663: Grant permission. Permission. Amendments to those developments granted permission under Register References SD04A/0763 and SD05A/0388 and will consist of an increase in the size (approx. 21.2sq.m.) of the proposed two storey extension to the south eastern side of the clubhouse to include an increase in the size of the proposed balcony area at first floor for potential use as a smoking facility and the omission of the new toilets at ground floor and their replacement with a golf shop with associated changes to roofs and elevations.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/29711
- 18 May 2005, South Dublin County Council SD05A/0388: Grant permission. Permission. Amendments to development granted permission under Register Reference SD04A/0763 and will consist of an increase in the size (approx. 26.6sq.m.) of the two storey extensions to the south eastern side of the clubhouse to include a balcony area at first floor for potential use as a smoking facility, additional storage and an increase in the size of the service stairs lobby at ground floor, with associated changes to roofs and elevations.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/25799
- 12 Oct 2004, South Dublin County Council SD04A/0763: Grant permission. Permission. The extension of the existing clubhouse by the construction of ground and first floor extensions with associated internal alterations and changes to elevations.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/24226
- 11 Aug 2003, South Dublin County Council SD03A/0608: Grant permission. Permission. Internal subdivision of existing granary building to incorporate new internal stores at ground floor level with new open storage at mezzanine level, new door opening to external envelope, demolition of two existing glasshouses together with all associated site development/reinstatement works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/21262
- 16 May 2001, South Dublin County Council S01A/0296: Grant permission. Permission. Erection of a prefabricated unit measuring 6.1m x 12.2m which will be sited to the rear of the Administration Block.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/18698
- 11 Jan 2001, South Dublin County Council S01A/0013: Refuse outline permission. Outline permission, 1 home. Dwelling and effluent treatment plant. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/16377
- Date not given, South Dublin County Council ABP-315768-23: Grant approval. Approval. Non-Material Amendment to the Adamstown Strategic Development Zone (SDZ) Planning Scheme.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/70988

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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 Backstown.

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

- DU017-100: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU017-100----. In grassland immediately E of a watercourse running from S to N. Ecclesiastical site (DU017-028001-) 470m to S. Cropmark of a circular shaped area (diam. c. 35m) defined by a wide ditch with cropmark of semi-circular-shaped annexe (diam. c. 23m) defined by a faint narrow cropmark to E visible on OSi Bluesky orthoimages taken 2018 (https://sdublincoco.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=e0c5595b033341dea7661e248d2e9ee9). Faint traces of cropmark visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 12/07/2013 and 27/06/2019. See attached Google Earth orthoimages and Apple Maps Orthoimage provided by Jean-Charles Caillere Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Donal Lucey and Jean-Charles Caillere Date of upload: 30 November 2022

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)

- Backweston House, farm house, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 11204002, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=SC&regno=11204002. Detached three-bay two-storey house, c. 1800. Timber sash windows. Replacement timber panelled door with original radial fanlight. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered base course and raised quoins. Extensions to rere of house with various casement windows. Square rubble stone gate piers to rere leading to road.

## 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 Backstown, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2971, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2971.zip (ZIP).
- 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/dublin/backstown.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/dublin/backstown.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/dublin/backstown.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

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

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

- Aderrig: https://everytownland.com/dublin/aderrig.md
- Backweston Park (Co. Kildare): https://everytownland.com/kildare/backweston-park.md
- Backwestonpark: https://everytownland.com/dublin/backwestonpark.md
- Ballymadeer (Co. Kildare): https://everytownland.com/kildare/ballymadeer.md
- Cooldrinagh: https://everytownland.com/dublin/cooldrinagh.md
- Tobermaclugg: https://everytownland.com/dublin/tobermaclugg.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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