Clonswords

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonswords, from 82 m² to 108,294 m² (10.83 ha, 26.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

• P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 24 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 12 Oct 2021Grant permission

  Permission is sought to demolish existing rear extension & replace

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F21B/0141

• 30 Jan 2017Grant permission

  Alter existing front facade to include new two storey porch and front

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F16B/0233

• 19 Jul 2011Grant permission for retention

  Retention of the existing 24m high telecommunications support structur

  Retention · Fingal County Council, F11A/0274

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Clonswords.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clonswords.

Architectural heritage

• Clonswords House, farm house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, c.1850, with adjoining outbuilding to right-hand side. Timber conservatory to left-hand side and two-storey extension to rear, c.1990. Farm complex to rear.ROOF: Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, two red brick corniced chimney stacks; cast-iron rainwater goods. WALLS: Rough cast render, nap render plinth course. OPENINGS: Square headed openings; patent reveals; limestone cills, aluminium casements; segmental headed door opening, timber panelled door, c.1990.

• Water pump, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron water pump, c.1900, of round profile with a curved handle. Makers: Tonge & Taggart

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Clonswords, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clonswords.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.

No address of the register names Clonswords with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Clonswords · Gleann Soird

Area

237,821 m² (23.78 ha, 58.77 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyboghil, and its townlands

Barony

Balrothery West

Electoral division

Ballyboghil, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,629 people lived in 473 households in the Ballyboghil electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboghil, Calliaghstown, Ellistown, Gerrardstown

Placenames

Clonswords 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.