Balrickard
Townland in the civil parish of Hollywood, barony of Balrothery West, Co. Dublin; in Irish Baile Riocaird
- Area
- 84.8 ha
- 210 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 20,552 m² (2.06 ha, 5.08 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- HA - High Amenity
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balrickard, from 218 m² to 151,190 m² (15.12 ha, 37.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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
- G3HA - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 25 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 2 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
1 Jul 2026Refuse permission & refuse retention
The development will consist of Retention of existing building which c
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F26A/0572E
25 Apr 2025Grant permission & grant retention
Retention Permission is sought for: (i) erection of 18 no. polytunnel
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F25A/0358E
5 Dec 2019Grant permission
For the construction of a 3 bedroomed, detached house, one and a half
Permission · Fingal County Council, F19A/0590
5 Jun 2019Refuse permission
Construction of a 3 bedroomed, detached house
Permission · Fingal County Council, F19A/0239
16 Apr 2015Grant permission
New storey and a half extension to the rear of the existing cottage an
Permission · Fingal County Council, F15A/0159
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bog Of The Ring 001204
Recorded monuments
- DU004-016 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Located on a slight rise under pasture beside townland boundary. Historic 6 inch map show quarry in the same field. An aerial photograph taken in 1972 (FSI 4.510/509) shows a circular cropmark (diam. c. 22m) of a levelled enclosure. Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 31 October 2014
- DU004-128 Quarry
Description
Small circular-shaped quarry (approx. diam. 30m) depicted on the 1837 ed. OSi six-inch map. Not indicated on the last edition of the OSi six-inch map or on the 25-inch OSi map. No surface remains visible of filled in quarry on the 2013-18 MapGenie orthoimage. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
- DU004-129 Quarry
Description
Circular-shaped quarry (approx. diam. 40m ) with access road to N as depicted on the 1837 ed. OSi six-inch map. Hachured as a larger rectangular-shaped quarry (approx. dims. 65m N-S x 25m E-W) area on the last edition of the OSi six-inch map and on the 25-inch OSi map. Area of scrubland visible of disused historic quarry on the 2013-18 MapGenie orthoimage. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Balrickard.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Balrickard.
- 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 Balrickard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Balrickard · Baile Riocaird
- Area
- 848,125 m² (84.81 ha, 209.58 acres)
- Civil parish
- Hollywood, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery West
- Electoral division
- Hollywood, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Hollywood electoral division: 1,476 people in 486 households; 86% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Belgee, Ring Commons, Ring Commons (2nd Division), Rowans Big, Walshestown
- Placenames
- Balrickard 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.