Ballisk Common
Townland in the civil parish of Portraine, barony of Nethercross, Co. Dublin; in Irish Coimín Bhaile Uisce
Parcel 1775507
- Area
- 272 m²
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it, 163 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- R2 RS - Residential (The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029) The objective
- Townland
- Ballisk Common
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- 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 this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 36.4 ha
- 90 acres
- Land parcels
- 433
- registered freehold, median 225 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- RS - Residential
- Planning
- 67
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
433 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballisk Common, from 4 m² to 41,589 m² (4.16 ha, 10.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 58 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
- R2RS - Residential (Existing residential)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 373 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2TC - Town and District Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 48 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4OS - Open Space (Active open space)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S3CI - Community Infrastructure (Community facilities)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 12 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
16 Jun 2026Refuse permission
A residential scheme providing 12 no. units in total. The scheme compr
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0509E
15 Jun 2026Request additional information
The development consist of: (i) completion of previously approved resi
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0507E
1 May 2026Grant permission for retention
Retention Application for alterations to previously granted Planning P
Retention · Fingal County Council, F26A/0347E
24 Apr 2026Invalid application
A residential scheme providing 12 no. units in total. The scheme compr
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0333E
10 Apr 2026Invalid application due to site notice
The development consists of: (i) completion of previously approved res
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0283E
13 Mar 2026Grant permission
Planning permission for attic conversion with hip to gable roof and do
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0188E
9 Mar 2026Grant permission
The construction of a single storey extension to the rear, alterations
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0168E
7 Nov 2025Refuse permission for retention
Retention Permission for alterations to previously granted Planning Pe
Retention · Fingal County Council, F25A/1035E
12 Aug 2025Refuse permission
A residential scheme providing 28 no. units in total. The scheme compr
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0730E
30 Jun 2025Refuse permission
Permission for development at a site of c. 0.52 Ha at Kavanagh's Garde
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0580E
26 Feb 2025Grant permission & grant retention
The development will consist of The construction of a temporary primar
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F25A/0149E
19 Dec 2024Grant permission
Planning permission for conversion of existing attic space comprising
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/1172E
19 Nov 2024Grant permission
The proposed development will consist of: (A) Subdivision of existing
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/1021E
6 Sept 2024Grant permission
Development will consist of a new gable
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0800
3 Apr 2024Grant permission & grant retention
Permission for retention of a single storey
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F24A/0305
28 Feb 2024Grant permission
Planning permission for a development consisting of the construction o
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0742
5 Sept 2023Grant permission
Planning permission for the construction of an all-weather astro pitch
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0523
13 Jul 2023Refuse permission
Planning permission is sought for a development consisting of the cons
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0426
16 May 2023Grant permission
The development will consist of the installation of an aircraft
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0258
16 Sept 2022Grant permission
A ten year permission for a large scale residential development (LRD)
Lrd application · Fingal County Council, LRD0008/S3
14 May 2021Grant permission for retention
Retention of amendments to previously permitted development granted un
Retention · Fingal County Council, F21A/0274
18 Feb 2021Grant permission
Permission for new 20 sq.m. of photo voltaic solar panels to roof of b
Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0084
11 Aug 2020Grant permission
The provision of a temporary primary school by way of construction of
Permission · Fingal County Council, F20A/0157
20 Jul 2020Refuse permission
The construction of a 15 metre high free standing communications struc
Permission · Fingal County Council, F20A/0357
7 May 2020Grant permission
The demolition of the existing single storey house and the constructio
Permission · Fingal County Council, F19A/0413
The 25 most recent of 67 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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballisk Common.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballisk Common.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballisk Common.
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 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 Ballisk Common.
- 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 Ballisk Common with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Ballisk Common · Coimín Bhaile Uisce
- Area
- 363,667 m² (36.37 ha, 89.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Portraine, and its townlands
- Barony
- Nethercross
- Electoral division
- Donabate, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Donabate electoral division: 11,783 people in 3,900 households; 79% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballalease North, Ballalease West, Ballisk, Beaverstown
- Placenames
- Ballisk Common 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.