Baldonnell Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbride, barony of Newcastle, Co. Dublin; in Irish Baile Dhónaill Uachtarach
- Area
- 93 ha
- 230 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 2,239 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- RU
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Baldonnell Upper, from 30 m² to 233,053 m² (23.31 ha, 57.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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
- P1RU (Agriculture)
South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 38 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
8 Aug 2022Grant permission
Change of house plans of two storey private dwelling in side garden of existing family home; Re-Arrangement of existing entrance to provide required access to public road; Installation of waste water treatment system to required detail as granted under Reg. Ref. SD20A/0200; Building of private garage - floor area 49sq.m on western side of proposed dwelling.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD22A/0327
23 Feb 2021Grant permission
Two storey dwelling in side garden of existing family home using existing entrance to provide access to public road. Installation of waste water treatment system to required detail.
Permission, 1 home · South Dublin County Council, SD20A/0200
13 Jul 2020Declared exempt
Proposed agricultural storage shed.
Declaration of exemption sect. 5 · South Dublin County Council, ED20/0007
17 Jun 1999Grant permission
Two storey extension to the rear, the erection of a porch to the front and in conversion of a garage to the front.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, S99B/0387
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 Baldonnell Upper.
Recorded monuments
- DU021-107 Enclosure
Description
Not indicated on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps this sub-circular enclosure is visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph. It is located immediate northwest of an access road to a runway at Baldonnel Airpor. (pers. comm. T. Condit). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 4 February 2014
Architectural heritage
- Casement Aerodrome, hangar, 1915–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Detached former flight shed, c.1917, now in use as an aircraft hangar. Yellow brick buttressed corner piers, the eastern incorporating an open platform. Seven bay lean-to brick office ranges to north and south, with uPVC casement windows. Walls and roof re-clad, c.1990, with corrugated metal. Sliding hangar doors to north and south on original cast-iron frames. Internal wall forms brick arcade.Associated memorial to first east-west Atlantic flight and inscribed stone panel inset in ground marking take-off point in 1928.
- Casement Aerodrome, hangar, 1910–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Detached square-plan hangar, c.1917. Brick corner piers with corrugated metal cladding to north and south elevations. Corrugated metal sliding doors to west and east elevations. Pitched corrugated metal roof. Eleven-bay single-storey brick office range to north elevation with lean-to corrugated metal roof. Single-storey roughcast rendered range to south elevation with lean-to corrugated metal roof.
- Casement Aerodrome, hangar, 1910–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Detached square-plan hangar, c.1917. Brick corner piers with corrugated metal cladding to south elevation. Red brick walls with buttresses and metal casement windows to north elevation. Corrugated metal sliding doors to west and east elevations. Pitched corrugated metal roof. Seven-bay single-storey roughcast rendered block to north and south elevations with metal casement windows and lean-to corrugated metal roof.
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, 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_3006 (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 Baldonnell Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Baldonnell Upper · Baile Dhónaill Uachtarach
- Area
- 930,139 m² (93.01 ha, 229.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbride, and its townlands
- Barony
- Newcastle
- Electoral division
- Newcastle, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Newcastle electoral division: 5,552 people in 1,814 households; 75% of households own their home; 66% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Baldonnell Little, Baldonnell Lower, Brownsbarn, Collegeland, Kilbride, Kilmactalway, Moneenalion Commons Upper
- Placenames
- Baldonnell Upper 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.