Charstown
Townland in the civil parish of Ballymadun, barony of Balrothery West, Co. Dublin; in Irish Baile Shear
- Area
- 90.5 ha
- 224 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 452,430 m² (45.24 ha, 111.8 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- RU - Rural
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Charstown, from 142,765 m² (14.28 ha, 35.28 acres) to 762,095 m² (76.21 ha, 188.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 · 18 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
8 Dec 2011Grant permission
Propose remodelling of existing detached two storey dwelling at Ballym
Permission · Fingal County Council, F11B/0113
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 Charstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Charstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Charstown.
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 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 Charstown.
- 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 Charstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Charstown · Baile Shear
- Area
- 904,859 m² (90.49 ha, 223.6 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballymadun, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery West
- Electoral division
- Garristown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Garristown electoral division: 1,801 people in 529 households; 80% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymadun, Borranstown, Nutstown, Tobergregan
- Placenames
- Charstown 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.