Broomfield
Townland in the civil parish of Lusk, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin; in Irish Gort na Giolcaí
- Area
- 29.9 ha
- 74 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 1,874 m²
- Zoning
- P1
- RU - Rural
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Broomfield, from 335 m² to 277,902 m² (27.79 ha, 68.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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
- P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 14 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
20 May 2024Grant permission
Mainscourt Solar DAC intends to apply for a 10 year permission
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0743
29 Nov 2022Grant permission
The development of grid connection infrastructure to connect the appro
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0365
28 Jul 2022Grant permission
Amendments to the approved solar photovoltaic ("PV")
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0386
29 Mar 2022Grant permission
Restoration of existing cottage and new pitched roof over existing ent
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0162
29 Oct 2021Refuse permission
For restoration of existing cottage and new pitched roof over existing
Permission · Fingal County Council, F20A/0676
27 Nov 2019Grant permission
Construction of a two-storey 4-bed detached dwelling, a single storey
Permission · Fingal County Council, F19A/0282
18 Jun 2019Refuse permission
For restoration and change of use of existing residential cottage to a
Permission · Fingal County Council, F19A/0260
16 Jun 2017Refuse permission
A 10 year planning permission for the development of a solar photovolt
Permission · Fingal County Council, F17A/0340
6 Mar 2013Refuse ext. of duration of permission
Restoration and change of use of existing residential cottage to a sel
Extension of duration of permission · Fingal County Council, F07A/1529/E1
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 Broomfield.
Recorded monuments
- DU007-026 Habitation site
Description
Evidence for Bronze Age (Beaker) activity associated with pits was uncovered during excavation of one of three circular-ditched enclosures at Broomfield, county Dublin. Excavation showed the enclosures to be nineteenth-century tree-rings erected in the 18th/19th century upon the earlier activity (O'Brien, E.1988, 118-123). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 29 November 2014
- DU007-079 Enclosure
Description
Circular-shaped cropmark (diam. c. 45m) visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 24/06/2018. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photograph taken 24/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 9 November 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Broomfield.
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, 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 Broomfield.
- 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 Broomfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Broomfield · Gort na Giolcaí
- Area
- 298,920 m² (29.89 ha, 73.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lusk, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery East
- Electoral division
- Lusk, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Lusk electoral division: 10,774 people in 3,341 households; 78% of households own their home; 62% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bettyville, Mainscourt, Wimbletown
- Placenames
- Broomfield 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.