Doolagh
Townland in the civil parish of Naul, barony of Balrothery West, Co. Dublin; in Irish Dúlach
- Area
- 26.7 ha
- 66 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 1,803 m²
- Zoning
- P1
- RU - Rural
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doolagh, from 166 m² to 251,087 m² (25.11 ha, 62.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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
- P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3GB - Green Belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
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 Apr 2026Refuse permission
Permission is sought for the construction of a horse training facilit
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0311E
6 Mar 2026Invalid application due to site notice
Construction of a horse training facility comprising of a 24 horse st
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0161E
3 Feb 2023Grant permission
The development will consist of modifications to extension design from
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0033
7 Apr 2021Grant permission
The refurbishment of existing derelict cottage, with glass link to a d
Permission · Fingal County Council, F20A/0403
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 Doolagh.
Recorded monuments
- DU001-002 Ring-ditch
Description
An aerial photograph (CUCAP BGL 7) shows a circular cropmark of a ring ditch (diam. c. 15m). Situated in slightly elevated position under tillage. Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 7 October 2014
- DU001-039 Quarry
Description
Quarry depicted as two detached excavated areas immediately S of the townland boundary on the 1837 ed. OSi six-inch map. On this map the quarry consisted of a small circular shaped area (approx. diam. 24m) with detached irregular-shaped excavated area (approx. dims. 25m N-S x 12m E-W) to the E. Outlined as two irregular shaped areas on the last edition of the OSi six-inch map. Depicted in a similar manner on the 1863 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Not visible on the 2013-2018 MapGenie orthoimagery of the area. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Doolagh.
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 Doolagh.
- 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 Doolagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Doolagh · Dúlach
- Area
- 267,147 m² (26.71 ha, 66.01 acres)
- Civil parish
- Naul, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery West
- Electoral division
- Hollywood, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Hollywood electoral division: 1,476 people in 486 households; 86% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolfores, Fortyacres, Gibblockstown (Co. Meath), Tobertaskin, Tobertown, Tullog (Co. Meath)
- Placenames
- Doolagh 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.