Deanestown
Townland in the civil parish of Swords, barony of Nethercross, Co. Dublin; in Irish Baile an Déanaigh
- Area
- 90.2 ha
- 223 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 3,650 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- GB - Green Belt
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Deanestown, from 37 m² to 322,285 m² (32.23 ha, 79.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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
- G3GB - Green Belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 30 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 4 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
19 Oct 2023Grant permission
For planning permission on lands at Deanstown, Balheary, Swords, Co. D
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0304
8 Mar 2023Grant permission
Dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and a
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0550
23 Jul 2020Grant permission
A part two-storey, part bungalow style dwelling, new waste water treat
Permission · Fingal County Council, F19A/0575
1 Oct 2014Grant permission
Construction of a part dormer and part 1½ storey dwelling with new sit
Permission · Fingal County Council, F14A/0403
15 Nov 2011Grant permission
The development will consist of the renovation and extension of an exi
Permission · Fingal County Council, F11A/0219
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 Deanestown.
Recorded monuments
- DU007-075 Enclosure
Description
Located within a large pasture field, close to the townland boundary between Deanestown and Grace Dieu, cropmarks indicate the presence of subsurface remains of a circular enclosure. The double ditched enclosure (diam. c. 42m) visible on Google maps imagery (June 2018) is defined by two ditches 3m to 5m apart. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 24/06/2018 Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 8 November 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Deanestown.
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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Deanestown.
- 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 Deanestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Deanestown · Baile an Déanaigh
- Area
- 902,328 m² (90.23 ha, 222.97 acres)
- Civil parish
- Swords, and its townlands
- Barony
- Nethercross
- Electoral division
- Swords-Lissenhall, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 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.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Belinstown, Brownstown, Deanestown, Gracedieu, Magillstown
- Placenames
- Deanestown 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.