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Castlefarm

Townland in the civil parish of Swords, barony of Nethercross, Co. Dublin; in Irish Feirm an Chaisleáin

Area
14.5 ha
36 acres
Land parcels
139
registered freehold, median 203 m²
Zoning
R2
RS - Residential
Planning
14
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

475 m across. Click a parcel to see it. © Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

139 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlefarm, from 8 m² to 24,385 m² (2.44 ha, 6.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

Planning applications

Sites that touch the townland, newest first

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 Castlefarm.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Castlefarm.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Castlefarm.

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; parts are made ground.
Terrain model
No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Castlefarm.
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

The townland

Name
Castlefarm · Feirm an Chaisleáin
Area
145,102 m² (14.51 ha, 35.86 acres)
Civil parish
Swords, and its townlands
Barony
Nethercross
Electoral division
Swords-Lissenhall, the unit of the census
Census 2022
Swords-Lissenhall electoral division: 12,065 people in 3,928 households; 66% of households own their home; 58% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Broadmeadow, Commons West, Glebe, Holybanks, Newtown, Townparks
Placenames
Castlefarm 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.