Bowhill
Townland in the civil parish of Balrothery, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin; in Irish Buachaill
Parcel 1834239
- Area
- 3,510 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it, 64 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- G3 GB - Green Belt (The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029) The objective
- Townland
- Bowhill
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Knock Lake 001203
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
- 38.5 ha
- 95 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 2,313 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- GB - Green Belt
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bowhill, from 859 m² to 156,446 m² (15.64 ha, 38.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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
- G3GB - Green Belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 22 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4OS - Open Space (Active open space)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 6 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
9 Dec 2021Grant permission
Construction of a new rugby football pitch with posts, trainng mound
Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0202
16 Aug 2019Withdraw application
The reclamation of unused land to playing pitches by the
Permission · Fingal County Council, F19A/0374
14 Dec 2018Grant permission
Permission is sought for alternations to approved clubhouse (F17A/0549
Permission · Fingal County Council, F18A/0714
8 Sept 2017Grant permission
Alterations to approved clubhouse (F16A/0075). Alterations include (i
Permission · Fingal County Council, F17A/0549
12 Aug 2016Grant permission
2 storey detached clubhouse, on-site waste water treatment unit and pe
Permission · Fingal County Council, F16A/0075
14 Oct 2013Grant permission & grant retention
a) Retention of existing boatshed 32 sq.m. (temporary structure) and c
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F13A/0385
20 Nov 2012Grant permission
Single storey detached clubhouse, on-site waste water treatment unit a
Permission · Fingal County Council, F12A/0357
15 Feb 2011Grant permission & grant retention
4 no. all weather pitches and associated lighting masts positioned aro
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F10A/0308
11 Feb 2011Grant permission
New single storey extension to northern side of existing dwelling hous
Permission · Fingal County Council, F11B/0028
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: Knock Lake 001203
Recorded monuments
- DU005-005 Ring-ditch
Description
Located in an elevated and exposed position on an E-facing slope under tillage. A ring-ditch (diam. c. 16m) visible as a cropmark on an aerial photograph taken in 1977 (BKS 27440 62/3). Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 7 November 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bowhill.
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 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 Bowhill.
- 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 Bowhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Bowhill · Buachaill
- Area
- 384,615 m² (38.46 ha, 95.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- Balrothery, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery East
- Electoral division
- Balbriggan Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Balbriggan Rural electoral division: 19,347 people in 6,127 households; 60% of households own their home; 74% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Inch, Knock, Ring, Stephenstown, Turkinstown
- Placenames
- Bowhill 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.