Ballyboghil

149 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyboghil, from 6 m² to 640,596 m² (64.06 ha, 158.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• M2RV - Rural Village (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 113 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 53 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4OS - Open Space (Active open space)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 19 Aug 2026Referral

  A new single-storey extension to rear of existing dwellinghouse along

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0757E

• 1 May 2025Grant permission

  The development will consist of: Amendments to a previously granted d

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0377E

• 20 Feb 2025Grant permission

  Planning Permission for a residential development of

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0130

• 13 Sept 2024Grant permission & grant retention

  (i) Retention Permission is sought for the single-storey, three-bedroo

  Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F24A/0829E

• 26 Jul 2024Invalid application

  Retention Permission for: (i) the property ‘Yellow House’ - a single-s

  Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F24A/0679E

• 21 Jun 2024Refuse permission

  Planning permission for a residential development of 15 number dwellin

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0795

• 1 May 2024Grant permission for retention

  The development consists of the retention of change of use from Retail

  Retention · Fingal County Council, F24A/0135

• 11 Apr 2024Grant permission for retention

  The development consist

  Retention · Fingal County Council, F24A/0329

• 12 Dec 2023Refuse permission for retention

  The development consists of a small scale

  Retention · Fingal County Council, F23A/0770

• 20 Sept 2023Grant permission

  The development will consist of permission for

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0399

• 3 Aug 2023Grant permission

  Development consising of (i) a two storey extension (288m2)

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0063

• 14 Jul 2023Grant permission

  For Plannning permisson for development on land within the grounds of

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0430

• 29 Nov 2022Grant permission

  The development of grid connection infrastructure to connect the appro

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0365

• 21 Oct 2022App withdrawn as no ai recd in 6 months

  detached gym and utility room in rear garden, with connection to exist

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0574

• 28 Jul 2022Grant permission

  Amendments to the approved solar photovoltaic ("PV")

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0386

• 21 Mar 2022Grant permission

  The development will consist of the change of use to ground floor

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0138

• 16 Feb 2022Refuse permission

  Construct domestic entrance, domestic garage, split level 2 storey

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0072

• 22 Dec 2021Invalid planning application

  Permission to construct Domestic Garage, split level 2 storey dwelling

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0700

• 4 Aug 2021Grant permission

  Amendments to the previously permitted development Reg Ref F18A/0581.

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F20A/0716

• 30 Jun 2021Refuse permission

  The construction of 1 no. part single storey, part two storey split

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0353

• 17 Oct 2018Grant permission

  The construction of a clubhouse facility containing dressing rooms wit

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F18A/0581

• 15 Aug 2018Grant permission

  Permission for the construction of a new single storey classroom block

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F18A/0476

• 4 Jul 2018Grant permission for retention

  The development will consist of retention and completion of amendments

  Retention · Fingal County Council, F18A/0382

• 29 Mar 2018Grant extension of duration of perm.

  Permission consequent on grant of outline planning permission, Reg. Re

  Extension of duration of permission · Fingal County Council, F09A/0226/E1

• 14 Sept 2017Grant permission

  Permission for the removal of two small dwellings and for a proposed

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F17A/0408

The 25 most recent of 35 applications.

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 Ballyboghil.

Recorded monuments

• DU007-009 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in low-lying tillage towards the northern boundary of large open field (some field boundary removal). An aerial photograph taken in 1972 (FSI 373/2; 588/7) shows a circular enclosure visible as a cropmark (diam. c. 30m). Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 28 November 2014

• DU007-010001 Church
  Description

  Ballyboghil (town of the staff or the Bachall of Patrick) church ruins in S quadrant of graveyard (DU007-010002-), just N of Ballyboghil village. In 1615, the Royal Visitation of Dublin recorded that in the Deanery of Lusk, there was the Church of Ballyboghil served by the curate Nicholas Bacon (Ronan 1941, 26). Ronan (ibid.) recorded that following details about Ballyboghil church; 'In a grant of Ballibaghill to St. Mary's Abbey by Gilbert, Archbishop of Armagh, c. 1175-1180, the land is called the 'Land of St. Patrick', and it is stated that his predecessor Ceallach (1106-1129) had a "freer and fuller right" to it (Gilbert, Chart. St. Mary's, Dublin, I, 141). Ceallach had obtained the metropolitanship of Norse-Irish Dublin, apparently by agreement with Samuel O h-Aingli, Bishop of Dublin, about 1113 (ibid., II, 254 ;AFM, at 1121). Apparently at this time he obtained the town of Ballibaghill and the lands around it for the preservation of the Bachall losa and in recognition of his own metropolitanship instead of that of Canterbury to which Dublin had been subject. In 1173, Strongbow, after a siege of four days, took Ballibaghill from Mac Goghdane, and, having beheaded him, granted "illo die" the 'Land of St. Patrick' and the Bachall to Holy Trinity, Dublin (Liber Albus, Christ Church, fol. 46b.). Evidently the contest between these two powerful warriors was for these possessions. After the death of Gelasius, Archbishop of Armagh, in 1174, there was a dispute about the succession. The Anglo-Normans favoured Gilbert who became archbishop in 1175, Conchubhar, his opponent, having gone to Rome. (Lawlor, in Proc. RIA, XXXV. c. no. 9. p. 356). Strongbow died in 1176, and, probably immediately afterwards, Gilbert, who had now undisputed right to Ballibaghill and the Bachall, granted the lands to St. Mary's Abbey and the Bachall to Holy Trinity. Before his recall to England in 1177, Fitz Adelm, the Governor of Dublin, had the Bachall transferred to Holy Trinity (Gir. Cam., Hib. Expug., II, 28). Apparently this was done for the safety of the precious relic by removing it from the grasp of contending coarbs of Patrick. Malachy had already had trouble in this matter from Niall who claimed the coarbship in 1134 (St. Bernard's Life of St. Malachy, c.4 ; AFM, at 1135). Ware says that Ballibaghill was called from the Bachall of Patrick (Archbishops of Armagh, at 1180). The ruins of the church are very fine and show a fine triple-arched bell-turret. The Bachall, "the great relicke of Erlonde", having been preserved in Holy Trinity for over 350 years, was ordered to be burnt by Henry VIII's archbishop of Dublin, George Browne, in 1538, in front of the cathedral, as an object of superstition (Ronan, Reformation in Dublin, pp. 117-8). In 1630, Archbishop Bulkeley’s Visitation of Dublin, recorded the following details about Ballyboghil; 'The church and chauncell are much out of repairacon. The tithes are impropriate, esteemed to be worth five score pecks of corne per annum, belonging to the Sword. Gabriell Etheridge, clarke, is curate, who hath the small tythes, being worthe v libri per annum, for serving the cure. All the parishioners are recusants. The curate certified that there was wont to be paid by the Lord Deputy, or Lords Justices of the Kingdome, to the curate, by way of concordatum, the sume of iii libri sterling, of which he is behinde this fower yeares' (Ronan 1941, 71). Ballyboghil Church ruins described in 1887 as; 'This interesting old church, on an elevation surrounded by stately elm trees, and just above the village of the same name, is one of the most perfect and striking of the ruined churches of Fingal. It is 71 feet [21.6m] long by 25 [7.6m] wide, and, like all the other Fingal ruins, runs due E and W. The walls are nearly complete. The masonry is in fair condition. The corners are of chiselled stone. The W. gable rises in a perfect triple-arched bell-turret, the wall of which is 4½ feet [1.2m] thick. A perfect set of stone steps, from the top of the S wall, ascends to the E side of these belfry arches. The doors are arched. There are the remains of a fine E window in the chancel, 15 feet [4.5m] high by 7 [2.1m] wide, with arches of carved sandstone. At the SE chancel end there is a lancet-arched niche of 6 feet [1.8m] span, which apparently once covered a recumbent tombstone; farther to the W is a small lancet-arched doorway, 4½ feet [1.2m] by 2½ feet [0.7m] wide leading out to a vault, the masonry of which seems of the same date as that of the church. It is uncared for, without a name, the entrance is open, and it is full of human bones. The church dates, and was used, from the English invasion. Both church and chancel are said to have been out of repair A.D. 1630, but the church was in use then' (Walsh 1888, 246). The church is oblong in plan with an undivided nave and chancel (dims. 18.9m E-W x 5.6m N-S). Built of coursed masonry with dressed quoins, displaying extensive evidence for re-building. There is a triple bell-cote on the W gable with stone steps. Originally entered through opposing flattened arched doorways at W end of nave and through a narrow pointed arched doorway in the S wall of chancel. Interior is lit by plain single light opes with stepped embrasures in nave and chancel. The W window is of segmental-arched type, the E is a large pointed arched window, which rises to to the full height of the E gable. It has sandstone mouldings and a carved female head on the label stop. Arched tomb recesses in W and S walls. Aumbry in N wall (Healy, 1975, 19). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 26 March 2023

• DU007-010002 Graveyard
  Description

  Located on the northern outskirts of Ballyboghil village in an open site that enjoys good views of the surrrounding countryside. A laneway skirts the S of the graveyard. There is new housing immediately to its E. It has been extended to the west. The graveyard is rectangular in plan (L 50m, Wth 35m) and is enclosed by a hedge. Its interior is raised above the level of the external ground level. Within the graveyard are the remains of a church (DU007-010001-). SE of the church there are a number of mouldings used as grave markers. Graveyard previously surveyed in 1992 (Egan). Still in use. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 28 November 2014

• DU007-011 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated near field boundary of pasture (hasn't been ploughed in 15 years). An aerial photograph taken in 1992 (FSI 588/7) shows a sub-circular cropmark of a levelled enclosure (diam. c. 20m). Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine baker Date of upload: 28 November 2014

• DU007-019 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  St Bretcha'a holy well was also known locally as 'St. Bretsha's well'. Described in 1958 as a 'muddy pool in a field fence dike about 100 yds. from Ballyboghill old church ruin (DU007-010----). No memory of devotions, but known to be a former holy well. The name is variously given as Braitsea, Braitsi, Braitsan and Breacan'(Ó Danachair 1958, 74). The location of the well is shown on a sketch map of the village (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0787, Page 363; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4428182/4384545/4443044). See attached sketch map of Ballyboghil village showing the location of St Bretcha's Well. According to the folklore collected from Ballyboghill School, there was; 'No tradition connected with St Bretcha's Well. A spring still' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0787, Page 363; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4428182/4384545). See attached photos taken by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F024.06.00277 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/46713 and F024.06.00278 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/46714. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 11 April 2023

• DU007-080 Ring-ditch
  Description

  In tillage field with cropmark site (DU007-081----) to S. Cropmark of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 10m) visible on Apple Maps aerial imagery. See attached image from Apple Maps aerial coverage showing cropmark of ring-ditch Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 20 December 2022

• DU007-081 Earthwork
  Description

  In tillage field with cropmark of ring-ditch (DU007-080----) to N. Cropmark of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 30m) visible on Apple Maps aerial imagery. See attached image from Apple Maps aerial coverage showing circular-shaped cropmark Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 20 December 2022

Architectural heritage

• Church/chapel, 1500–1600 · National interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-cell church with triple bellcote. Now in ruins. Set in graveyard with various cut-stone markers of c.1600 to present.ROOF: Formerly double pitched roof; coursed rubble bellcote rises from rear gable. WALLS: Coursed rubble walls with buttress to side elevation. OPENINGS: Arched window opening with cutstone surround; pointed arched cutstone entrance door with coursed rubble reveals cambered headed cutstone opening to rear gable with tri-partite, pointed arched bellcote opening above.

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 Ballyboghil.

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

Name

Ballyboghil · Baile Bachaille

Area

1,551,839 m² (155.18 ha, 383.47 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyboghil, and its townlands

Barony

Balrothery West

Electoral division

Ballyboghil, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyboghil electoral division: 1,629 people in 473 households; 79% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Calliaghstown, Clonswords, Ellistown, Grange, Mainscourt, Murragh

Placenames

Ballyboghil 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.