Crowscastle
Townland in the civil parish of Swords, barony of Nethercross, Co. Dublin; in Irish Caisleán na bPréachán
- Area
- 42.9 ha
- 106 acres
- Land parcels
- 183
- registered freehold, median 121 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- RS - Residential
- Planning
- 96
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
183 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crowscastle, from 1 m² to 28,730 m² (2.87 ha, 7.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 65 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
- R2RS - Residential (Existing residential)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 166 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C3HT - High Technology (Office, business/technology park and related)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 26 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C1.2RW - Retail Warehousing (Retail warehouse)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 15 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1GE - General Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M1MRE - Metro and Rail Economic Corridor (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4OS - Open Space (Active open space)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M3LC - Local Centre (District, neighbourhood centre)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 2 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
20 May 2026Request additional information
The proposed development will consist of:
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0413E
1 Dec 2025Grant permission
(i) change of use of 2 no. existing two storey veterinary buildings to
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/1109E
21 Nov 2025Invalid application
(i) change of use of 2 no. existing two storey veterinary buildings to
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/1083E
14 Oct 2025Grant permission
The development will consist of the following: the removal of 22.4 sqm
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0941E
15 Sept 2025Grant permission
The development will consist of a Large-scale Residential development
Lrd application · Fingal County Council, LRD0055/S3E
12 Jun 2025Refuse permission
The proposed development comprises of: 1. The development will cons
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0521E
20 Feb 2025Grant permission
Planning permission for a development comprising the replacement of ex
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0131E
20 Nov 2024Grant permission & grant retention
Intend to apply for permission and retention permission
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F24A/1029
30 Sept 2024Grant permission
Replacement of existing "Garden Centre" sign (approx. 3.8m wide x 2.0m
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0875E
29 Apr 2024Grant permission
Permission is sought for the installation of a modular substation and
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0392
27 Feb 2024Grant permission & grant retention
Permission and retention permission for the reorganisation of on-site
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F24A/0159
13 Feb 2024Grant permission
Works to comprise a mezzanine floor circa 580m2 and all ancillary work
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0102
19 Jan 2024Refuse permission
Permission for development at a c. 2.55 ha site
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0031
18 Jan 2024Refuse permission
The development will consist of:
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0023
21 Dec 2023Grant permission
The construction of a 169sqm single-storey extension
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0809
20 Dec 2023Grant permission
Planning permission to erect 1,025.07 m2 or 198.75 kWp of photovoltaic
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0548
30 Nov 2023Invalid application due to site notice
The development will consist of:
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0735
28 Nov 2023Grant permission
The development will consist of a Healthcare Facility of 4,425.8 sqm
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0727
1 Aug 2023Grant permission
The development will consist of the demolition and reinstatement of ex
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0083
17 Jul 2023Withdraw application
The development will consist of a Healthcare Facility of 4,425.8 sqm g
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0415
14 Apr 2022Refuse permission
The proposed development comprises a Strategic Housing Developmnt of 6
Strategic housing development · Fingal County Council, SHD/002/20
3 Mar 2022Grant permission
Planning permission to; (i) the replacement of existing hipped main ro
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22B/0057
21 Oct 2021Grant permission
Permission for a new gable wall to the side of the existing house and
Permission · Fingal County Council, F21B/0353
21 Oct 2021Grant permission
Permission for a new ground floor shopfront window to the front facade
Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0575
20 Oct 2021Grant permission
A new link road from the roundabout to the south of Lakeshore Drive, C
Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0100
The 25 most recent of 96 applications.
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 Crowscastle.
Recorded monuments
- DU011-045 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Dedicated to St Werburgh, the natural spring well was overgrown, situated beside a stream which forms the townland boundary between Crowscastle and Barrysparks. There was a local tradition that its water cures sore eyes but by the 1950s was no longer venerated (Ó Danachair 1958, 81). Holy well described in 1975 as; 'Small concrete enclosure now dry and full of brambles. It is beside a stream, which has partly eroded one corner of the foundations' (Henry A. Wheeler 08/10/1975, SMR File). Folklore collected from Swords School recorded that; 'There is another holy well about three miles from Swords near a place called Feltrim. This is known as St. Werburgh's well. It is supposed to cure people with pains' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0789, Page 152;https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4428188/4384894/4510754). In March 2011 the well was cleared and reconstructed. The well was redug in a different position, plastic piping inserted and stone removed. It is now signposted with an inscribed stone and described as an 'oasis of transformation'. See attached photos (01/02) taken by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F024.06.00052 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/31486; F024.06.00053 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/31487. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 12 April 2023
- DU011-152 Ring-ditch
Description
This monument was subject to geophysical survey (Licence no. 09R0038) and test excavation (Licence no. 10E0028) in advance of the Barryspark Local Area Plan. A ring ditch (13m diam.) was identified c. 160m SE of St Werburgh’s well (DU011-045----). The fill of the annular ditch (2m wide) had unidentified burnt bone inclusions (O’Hara 2010, 16). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 4 February 2015
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Crowscastle.
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 moderately low, 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 Crowscastle.
- 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 Crowscastle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Crowscastle · Caisleán na bPréachán
- Area
- 428,755 m² (42.88 ha, 105.95 acres)
- Civil parish
- Swords, and its townlands
- Barony
- Nethercross
- Electoral division
- Kinsaley, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kinsaley electoral division: 11,470 people in 3,746 households; 68% of households own their home; 69% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barrysparks, Drinan, Fosterstown North, Marshallstown, Miltonsfields, Nevinstown East, Nevinstown West
- Placenames
- Crowscastle 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.