Baldurgan

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Baldurgan, from 3,341 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 acres) to 563,848 m² (56.38 ha, 139.33 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.

• P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 15 Oct 2021Grant permission

  Permission for provision of a new two storey dwelling, including provi

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0207

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Baldurgan.

Recorded monuments

• DU007-016 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  St Bridget's Well consists of a natural spring well in a hollow in a field under tillage. Described in 1975 as a 'natural spring in bushy hollow in ploughed field' (Henry A. Wheeler 13/05/1975, SMR File). No longer venerated (Healy 1975, 19). Now appears as a grassy soggy circular pool (diam. c. 2m) in corner of a field under tillage (Skyvova 2005, 44). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 12 April 2023

• DU007-042 Ring-ditch
  Description

  A circular ring-ditchvisible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Located within relatively flat arable land but at a high contour in the landscape. Extpansive views south to dublin/Wicklow Mountains. No visible remains. Compiled by: David O’Connor Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 3 December 2014

• DU007-043 Enclosure
  Description

  A circular enclosure attached to a larger rectangular enclosure visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Located within relatively flat arable land but at a high contour in the landscape. Expansive views south to the Dublin/Wicklow Mountains. No visible remains. Compiled by: David O’Connor Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 3 December 2014

• DU007-044 Enclosure
  Description

  A circular enclosure visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Located within relatively flat arable land but at a high contour in the landscape. Expansive views south to the Dublin/Wicklow Mountains. No visible remains. Compiled by: David O’Connor Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 3 December 2014

• DU007-045 Enclosure
  Description

  Located within relatively flat arable land but at a high contour in the landscape. Expansive views S to the Dublin/Wicklow Mountains. The enclosure can be seen on Google Earth coverage (4 July 2008) where it is visible comprising both negative and positive cropmarks. The enclosure is circular (ext. diam. c. 30.5m). The Google Earth image appears to show evidence of an inner bank surrounded by an outer ditch (Wth c. 3.5m). There is no evidence for an entrance gap through the ditch. Located in a large arable field c. 180m NW of a group of three ring-ditches (DU007-046----, DU007-047----and DU007-048----). An unnamed E-W running stream is located c. 100m to the S. Compiled by: David O’Connor Revised by: Tom Condit Upload of revision: 16 October 2020

• DU007-046 Ring-ditch
  Description

  A circular ring-ditch visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph together with two other ring-ditches in the same field (DU007-047---- & DU007-048---- ) (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Located within relatively flat arable land but at a high contour in the landscape. Expansive views south to the Dublin/Wicklow Mountains. No visible remains. Compiled by: David O’Connor Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 3 December 2014

• DU007-047 Ring-ditch
  Description

  A circular ring-ditch visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph together with two other ring-ditches in the same field (DU007-046---- & DU007-048---- ) (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Located within relatively flat arable land but at a high contour in the landscape. Expansive views south to the Dublin/Wicklow Mountains. No visible remains. Compiled by: David O’Connor Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 3 December 2014

• DU007-048 Ring-ditch
  Description

  A circular ring-ditch visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph together with two other ring-ditches in the same field (DU007-046---- & DU007-047---- ) (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Located within relatively flat arable land but at a high contour in the landscape. Expansive views south to the Dublin/Wicklow Mountains. No visible remains. Compiled by: David O’Connor Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 3 December 2014

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Baldurgan.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 20 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Baldurgan.

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.

No address of the register names Baldurgan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Baldurgan · Baile Deargáin

Area

979,598 m² (97.96 ha, 242.06 acres)

Civil parish

Swords, and its townlands

Barony

Nethercross

Electoral division

Swords-Lissenhall, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Swords-Lissenhall electoral division: 12,065 people in 3,928 households; 66% of households own their home; 58% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Belinstown, Brownstown, Cookstown, Dooroge, Grange, Mainscourt, Roscall, Skidoo

Placenames

Baldurgan 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.