# Cookstown, Co. Dublin: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Swords, barony of Nethercross, Co. Dublin; in Irish Baile an Chócaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 681,155 m² (68.12 ha, 168.32 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 340,565 m² (34.06 ha, 84.16 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P1 RU - Rural, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Swords, https://everytownland.com/dublin/parish/swords.md - Barony: Nethercross - Electoral division: Swords-Lissenhall, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Swords-Lissenhall electoral division: 12,065 people in 3,928 households; 66% of households own their home; 58% of homes were built since 2001; 4% 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/17066 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 260274 - Centre: latitude 53.500079, longitude -6.255583 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cookstown, from 19,573 m² (1.96 ha, 4.84 acres) to 661,558 m² (66.16 ha, 163.47 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1806679: 661,558 m² (66.16 ha, 163.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1806679.md - Parcel 1904016: 19,573 m² (1.96 ha, 4.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1904016.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P1 RU - Rural (Agriculture): The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal; 10 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) No planning application touches the townland of Cookstown in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Cookstown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DU007-053: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU007-053----. A large oval enclosure visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph together with other features that could indicate a possible field system (DU007-054----) (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Located within open arable landscape. No visible remains. Compiled by: David O’Connor Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 3 December 2014 - DU007-054: Field system, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU007-054----. A field system visible as a crop mark on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 together with an oval enclosure (DU007-053----) (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Located within open arable landscape. No visible remains. See attached Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 Compiled by: David O’Connor Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 3 December 2014 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cookstown. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cookstown. - 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/cookstown-260274.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/dublin/cookstown-260274.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/dublin/cookstown-260274.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Cookstown 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) - Baldurgan: https://everytownland.com/dublin/baldurgan.md - Skidoo: https://everytownland.com/dublin/skidoo.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/cookstown-260274 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/dublin/cookstown-260274