Ballystrane
Ballystrane is a townland in the civil parish of Lusk, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is Baile Loistreáin.
- Area
- 40.2 ha
- 99 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 6,421 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- RU - Rural
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballystrane, from 16 m² to 114,588 m² (11.46 ha, 28.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 33 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
21 May 2026Grant permission
The development will consist of the installation of a canopy to cover
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0420E
14 May 2026Invalid application
The development will consist of the installation of a canopy to cover
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0389E
15 Aug 2023Grant permission
Planning permission for amendments to an above ground gas installation
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0484
20 Jun 2023Invalid application due to site notice
Planning Permission for Amendments to an Above Ground Gas In-stallatio
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0346
25 Jan 2021Grant permission
Extension of the existing Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGV) parking area to p
Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0033
7 Jun 2019Grant permission
The development will consist of a new Above Ground Gas Installation co
Permission · Fingal County Council, F19A/0052
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 Ballystrane.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballystrane.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballystrane.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballystrane, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballystrane.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballystrane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Ballystrane · Baile Loistreáin
- Area
- 402,244 m² (40.22 ha, 99.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lusk, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery East
- Electoral division
- Lusk, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 10,774 people lived in 3,341 households in the Lusk electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 62% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Baldrumman, Ballough, Colecot, Jordanstown, Nevitt, Oberstown
- Placenames
- Ballystrane 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.