# Clonswords, Co. Dublin: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballyboghil, barony of Balrothery West, Co. Dublin; in Irish Gleann Soird. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 237,821 m² (23.78 ha, 58.77 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,600 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P1 RU - Rural, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballyboghil, https://everytownland.com/dublin/parish/ballyboghil.md - Barony: Balrothery West - Electoral division: Ballyboghil, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Dublin, https://everytownland.com/dublin.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16739 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 260241 - Centre: latitude 53.534584, longitude -6.27418 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonswords, from 82 m² to 108,294 m² (10.83 ha, 26.76 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5087745: 108,294 m² (10.83 ha, 26.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5087745.md - Parcel 5363470: 49,239 m² (4.92 ha, 12.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5363470.md - Parcel 5445157: 17,974 m² (1.8 ha, 4.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5445157.md - Parcel 5562780: 14,773 m² (1.48 ha, 3.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5562780.md - Parcel 5240303: 13,510 m² (1.35 ha, 3.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5240303.md - Parcel 1914944: 9,072 m² (0.91 ha, 2.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1914944.md - Parcel 1815972: 6,504 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1815972.md - Parcel 1815968: 6,119 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1815968.md - Parcel 1815969: 4,551 m² (0.46 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1815969.md - Parcel 1914943: 2,649 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1914943.md - Parcel 1914940: 2,052 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1914940.md - Parcel 1815970: 1,064 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1815970.md - Parcel 1914941: 658 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1914941.md - Parcel 5240302: 396 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5240302.md - Parcel 2962694: 341 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2962694.md - Parcel 1914942: 299 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1914942.md - Parcel 1815971: 253 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1815971.md - Parcel 5445132: 82 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5445132.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P1 RU - Rural (Agriculture): The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal; 24 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.fingal.ie/development-plan ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 12 Oct 2021, Fingal County Council F21B/0141: Grant permission. Permission. Permission is sought to demolish existing rear extension & replace. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 30 Jan 2017, Fingal County Council F16B/0233: Grant permission. Permission. Alter existing front facade to include new two storey porch and front. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 19 Jul 2011, Fingal County Council F11A/0274: Grant permission for retention. Retention. Retention of the existing 24m high telecommunications support structur. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Clonswords. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clonswords. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Clonswords House, farm house, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 11321011, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=FI®no=11321011. 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, registry number 11321012, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=FI®no=11321012. Cast-iron water pump, c.1900, of round profile with a curved handle. Makers: Tonge & Taggart ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/dublin/clonswords.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/dublin/clonswords.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/dublin/clonswords.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Clonswords with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin: https://everytownland.com/dublin.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyboghil: https://everytownland.com/dublin/ballyboghil.md - Calliaghstown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/calliaghstown.md - Ellistown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/ellistown.md - Gerrardstown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/gerrardstown.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/dublin/clonswords - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/dublin/clonswords