Balleally West

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balleally West, from 301 m² to 122,490 m² (12.25 ha, 30.27 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.

• G3HA - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 30 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 4 Mar 2022Grant permission for retention

  The development will consist of the retention of an existing elevated

  Retention · Fingal County Council, F22A/0109

• 13 Jan 2011Refuse permission

  Construction of new Crematorium, and cemetery. The development will c

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F11A/0008

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Rogerstown Estuary SAC 000208
• Special Protection Area: Rogerstown Estuary SPA 004015
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Rogerstown Estuary 000208

Recorded monuments

• DU008-019002 Burial mound
  Description

  In a low-lying field under tillage. A burial mound (Diam. 25m, H 2m) containing a number of partially stone-lined graves was found here in 1958 (NMI 1958:37A and B). Excavations revealed three graves, two of which were partially stone-protected. Grave 1 cist was rectangular in outline with a long axis running E-W (L 1.4m, wth 0.4m, H 0.2m) and contained the disarticulated remains of two adults with a calibrated date of 418-605 AD. Grave 2 was a simple pit aligned E-W which contained an extended inhumation which dated to 692-962 AD. Grave 3 was a partially slab-lined grave which contained two extended inhumation burials aligned W-E (Cahill & Sikora 2011, 21-28). Not visible at ground level (Waddell 1990, 80).In a low-lying field under tillage. A burial mound containing a long cist was found here in 1958 (NMI 1958:37A and B). Not visible at ground level (Waddell 1990, 80). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 13 February 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Balleally West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Balleally West · Baile Amhlaoibh Thiar

Area

561,712 m² (56.17 ha, 138.8 acres)

Civil parish

Lusk, and its townlands

Barony

Balrothery East

Electoral division

Lusk, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lusk electoral division: 10,774 people in 3,341 households; 78% of households own their home; 62% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balleally East, Bridetree, Lusk, Newhaggard

Placenames

Balleally West 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.