Clarkstown
Townland in the civil parish of Whitechurch, barony of Rathdown, Co. Dublin; in Irish Baile Uí Chléirigh
- Area
- 28.1 ha
- 69 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 2,016 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres)
- Zoning
- G1
- OS
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clarkstown, from 1,543 m² to 2,490 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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
- G1OS (Open space, park)
South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Objective F (Open space, park)
COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown · 3 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
1 Aug 2017Grant permission
The extension of the golf course playing area into the car-park located towards the north-western corner of the site, resulting in the loss of 16 car parking spaces; landscaping works and all associated works above and below ground (a Protected Structure).
Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD17A/0263
19 Dec 2013Grant permission
Alteration to 2 no. private dwelling houses as approved under Reg. Ref. SD12A/0189. (A Protected Structure).
Permission, 2 homes · South Dublin County Council, SD13A/0264
25 Sept 2012Grant permission
(a) Full restoration, including internal and external alterations to Protected Structure to include: demolition of existing stores to internal yard and construction of new 'Orangerie'; alterations to external opes including alteration of 2 no. external window opes at ground level on east facade to provide 3 no. window opes in line with the original bays and the raising of five existing window opes on the east facade to form new door opes providing access to the area; internal alterations at basement, ground floor and first floor; construction of new roof lights to produce natural light to first floor corridor area; (b) the construction of 2 no. 2 storey dwellings including all associated site works within the grounds of Marlay Grange House. It is proposed that the existing gateway be shared for all dwellings; (c) the up-grading of existing waste and storm water services on site.
Permission, 2 homes · South Dublin County Council, SD12A/0189
8 Jul 2011Declared not exempt
1) Extend and widen the existing practice ground to 280m. 2) Build a new practice chipping area to to the right of the existing practice area.
Declaration of exemption sect. 5 · South Dublin County Council, ED11/0023
22 Aug 2003Grant permission
Erection of a 2.3m high fence along part of the boundary between Grange Golf Club and Marlay Park. The fence will begin at the south east corner boundary junction at Three Rock Rovers Hockey Club, Grange Golf Club and Marlay Park. It will run south approximately 1m west of the Grange / Marlay Park boundary to the north wall of the Marlay Park changing rooms. In addition, a further line of fencing will be located approximately 1m inside the entire southern boundary between Grange Golf Club and Marlay Park beginning at the western side of the changing rooms.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD03A/0624
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 Clarkstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clarkstown.
Architectural heritage
- Marlay House, cottage ornee, 1760–1837 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey "estate house" with half-dormer attic, extant 1837, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay full-height return (south) on a bowed plan. "Improved", 1870, producing present composition to accommodate alternative use. Disused, 2007. "Restored", 2014, to accommodate proposed alternative use. Replacement pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof; half-conical slate roof (south) including hipped roofs to window openings to half-dormer attic, crested terracotta ridge tiles, repointed paired red brick Flemish bond central chimney stacks having stringcourses below corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber spandrels with timber finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Replacement roughcast walls with concealed red brick flush quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and rendered "bas-relief" surround framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing timber casement windows. Square-headed window opening (half-dormer attic) with cut-granite sill, and rendered "bas-relief" surround framing timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings (south) with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing timber casement windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, staircase on a dog leg plan with turned timber "spindle" balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in turned timber newels, and carved timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled doors; room (east) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings; room (west) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings; bow-ended reception room (south) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to opposing window openings; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder with carved timber surrounds to window openings. Set in woods in grounds shared with Marlay House.
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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3210 (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 Clarkstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Clarkstown · Baile Uí Chléirigh
- Area
- 280,831 m² (28.08 ha, 69.39 acres)
- Civil parish
- Whitechurch, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathdown
- Electoral division
- Edmondstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Edmondstown electoral division: 5,685 people in 1,916 households; 70% of households own their home; 9% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Haroldsgrange, Kilmashogue, Taylorsgrange, Whitechurch
- Placenames
- Clarkstown 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.