# Brownscross, Co. Dublin: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clonmethan, barony of Balrothery West, Co. Dublin; in Irish Crois an Bhrúnaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 658,527 m² (65.85 ha, 162.73 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,691 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P1 RU - Rural, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clonmethan, https://everytownland.com/dublin/parish/clonmethan.md - Barony: Balrothery West - Electoral division: Clonmethan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 933 people lived in 282 households in the Clonmethan electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Dublin, https://everytownland.com/dublin.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16778 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 260179 - Centre: latitude 53.534278, longitude -6.330859 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brownscross, from 791 m² to 474,617 m² (47.46 ha, 117.28 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1913153: 474,617 m² (47.46 ha, 117.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1913153.md - Parcel 1913146: 153,248 m² (15.32 ha, 37.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1913146.md - Parcel 1913150: 5,469 m² (0.55 ha, 1.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1913150.md - Parcel 1814390: 4,544 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1814390.md - Parcel 1814388: 3,151 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1814388.md - Parcel 1814389: 2,857 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1814389.md - Parcel 1913149: 2,798 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1913149.md - Parcel 1814392: 2,583 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1814392.md - Parcel 1913148: 2,470 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1913148.md - Parcel 1913147: 1,888 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1913147.md - Parcel 1814391: 1,820 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1814391.md - Parcel 5761877: 1,274 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5761877.md - Parcel 1913152: 991 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1913152.md - Parcel 1913151: 791 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1913151.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P1 RU - Rural (Agriculture): The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal; 18 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.fingal.ie/development-plan - R3 RC - Rural Cluster (Residential, mixed residential and other uses): The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal; 5 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.fingal.ie/development-plan ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 1 Mar 2023, Fingal County Council F22A/0506: Grant permission. Permission. The development will consist of the following; 1) Construction of a ne. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 8 Apr 2021, Fingal County Council F21A/0192: Grant permission. Permission. Permission for proposed relocation of existing front driveway vehicula. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Brownscross. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DU007-005: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU007-005----. Located in a flat field of tillage E of dried up stream. An aerial photograph taken in 1972 (FSI 592/1) shows a roughly circular cropmark of an enclosure (diam. c. 16m). Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 August 2011 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Brownscross. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Brownscross, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Brownscross. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/dublin/brownscross.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/dublin/brownscross.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/dublin/brownscross.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Brownscross with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin: https://everytownland.com/dublin.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Clonmethan: https://everytownland.com/dublin/clonmethan.md - Cottrelstown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/cottrelstown.md - Jordanstown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/jordanstown-260507.md - Wyanstown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/wyanstown.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/dublin/brownscross - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/dublin/brownscross