Censure
Townland in the civil parish of Howth, barony of Coolock, Co. Dublin; in Irish Seinséar
- Area
- 43.2 ha
- 107 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 1,935 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- RS - Residential
- Planning
- 70
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Censure, from 23 m² to 8,623 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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
- R2RS - Residential (Existing residential)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3HA - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
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
3 Jul 2026Request additional information
(i) removal of externally accessible W.C., external staircase, veranda
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0582E
25 Jun 2026Invalid application
The development will consist of: (i) removal of externally accessible
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0550E
17 Jun 2026Grant permission & grant retention
The development will consist of: A) The retention and completion of a
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F26A/0512E
20 Dec 2025Grant permission
Ciaran Murphy intends to apply for planning permission for development
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/1201E
14 Aug 2025Grant permission
The development will consist of: 1) the reinstatement of the pre-exist
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0742E
10 Jul 2025Grant permission
Planning Permission is sought for the construction of a standalone sin
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0623E
10 Jul 2025Grant permission
Planning Permission is sought works to the Clubhouse comprising modifi
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0622E
2 Jul 2025Invalid application
Works to the Clubhouse comprising modifications to the existing clubho
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0591E
2 Jul 2025Invalid application
Planning Permission for the construction of a standalone single storey
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0592E
17 Apr 2025Grant permission
Planning permission is sought for the following:- (i) The replacement
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0330E
17 Dec 2024Grant permission
The development will consist of: 1) addition of a porch on the existin
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/1149E
8 Nov 2024Grant permission
The development will consist of: 1) The demolition of the existing gar
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0994E
4 Sept 2024Grant permission
1) The construction of a stand-alone one and a half story dormer type
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0793E
28 Aug 2024Invalid application
1) The construction of a stand-alone one and a half story dormer type
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0770E
27 Jun 2024Grant permission
Planning permission is sought for works to existing 3-bedroom two stor
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0575E
28 Feb 2024Grant permission
Planning permission is sought for:
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0162
15 Feb 2024Grant permission
The proposed development will incorporate the following (a) The constr
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0109
12 Feb 2024Grant permission
The development will comprise; (i) a first-floor extension to the exis
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0098
13 Jul 2023Grant permission
Construction of a single-storey five-bedroom detached flat roofed dwel
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0001
23 May 2023Grant permission
A) demolition of existing three-bedroom single-storey dwelling
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0043
22 Dec 2022Grant permission
Alterations and extension to existing dwelling
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22B/0253
25 Nov 2022Grant permission
The development will consist of the construction of 2 no. pumping stat
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0659
15 Jul 2022Grant permission
Demolition of existing single storey extension and for the constructio
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0363
4 Apr 2022Grant permission
The development will consist of 1) the demolition of the existing 1- s
Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0602
4 Mar 2022Grant permission
Permission for the relocation of an existing shared vehicular entrance
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0110
The 25 most recent of 70 applications.
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Howth Head SAC 000202
- Special Area of Conservation: Rockabill to Dalkey Island SAC 003000
- Special Protection Area: North Bull Island SPA 004006
- Special Protection Area: North-West Irish Sea cSPA 004236
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Howth Head 000202
Recorded monuments
- DU019-007 Castle - unclassified
Description
The site is accessible from the cliff walk S of Bottle Quay on the W side of Howth Head. The castle was demolished prior to 1937. It is a naturally sloping promontory under pasture, which is enclosed by a later property boundary. No visible remains at ground level.
Architectural heritage
- Drynan Lodge, house, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Detached two-bay two-storey gable-fronted Edwardian style house with dormer attic, c.1910, having single-bay single-storey canted bay window to left and two-storey flat-roofed recessed end bay to right.ROOF: Gable-fronted; red clay profiled tiles; square rooflight; red clay ridge tiles; roughcast chimney stack; yellow clay pots; cast-iron rainwater goods; flat-roof to end bay behind parapet; iron/lead ridges. WALLS: Roughcast; unpainted. OPENINGS: Square-headed window openings; no sills; timber side-hung casement windows advanced from line of façade; canted bay window to left ground floor; canted oriel to end bay; round-headed door opening.
- Blackberry Hill, house, 1910–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey Edwardian style house with dormer attic, c.1915, with internal entrance bay to centre. Refenestrated, c.1990.ROOF: Double-pitched; gable-fronted to dormer attic window; red clay tiles; square rooflight; red clay ridge tiles; overhanging timber eaves; cast-iron rainwater goods chimney stack to rear; red clay pots. WALLS: Roughcast; painted; buttresses to front and to right corner; nap rendered 'timber-frame' dressings to right gable end having red clay tiles to apex. OPENINGS: Square-headed openings - windows to left within recessed panels; concrete sills; replacement uPVC casement windows, original glazed timber panelled door with entablature over and sidelights; round-headed open internal porch; glazed uPVC door and side lights.
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3377 (ZIP).
- 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 Censure with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Censure · Seinséar
- Area
- 432,030 m² (43.2 ha, 106.76 acres)
- Civil parish
- Howth, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coolock
- Electoral division
- Howth, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Howth electoral division: 8,399 people in 3,126 households; 85% of households own their home; 13% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Howth, Sutton South
- Placenames
- Censure 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.