Dunganstown
Townland in the civil parish of Lusk, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin; in Irish Baile Dongáin
- Area
- 12.3 ha
- 30 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 1,722 m²
- Zoning
- R3
- RC - Rural Cluster
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunganstown, from 119 m² to 115,567 m² (11.56 ha, 28.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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
- R3RC - Rural Cluster (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 8 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
3 Sept 2026Referral
I, Mark Ennis, intend to apply for permission on lands at Kilhedge La
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0806E
24 Jul 202635 day assessment
The proposed development will consist of: (i) Construction of 1 no. s
Perm.consequent on grant of outline perm · Fingal County Council, F26A/0661E
5 Dec 2025Refuse permission & refuse retention
I, Mark Ennis, intend to apply for retention permission and planning p
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F25A/1131E
8 Jul 2025Refuse permission & refuse retention
I, Mark Ennis, intend to apply for retention permission and planning p
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F25A/0611E
6 Nov 2023Grant permission
The proposed development will consist of modifications to the existing
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0668
8 Mar 2023Refuse permission
The development of a 2 storey, 4-bedroom detached dwelling, new vehicu
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0398
30 Nov 2022Refuse permission
The proposed development will consist of modifications to the existing
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0668
6 Oct 2022Invalid application due to site notice
The proposed development will consist of modifications to the existing
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0537
18 Aug 2022Invalid application due to site notice
The proposed development will consist of modifications to existing dor
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0427
6 Dec 2017Grant permission for retention
Retention planning permission for the single storey garage consructed
Retention · Fingal County Council, F17A/0257
7 Apr 2016Grant permission
Construct a new storey and a half dwelling with secondary treatment pl
Permission · Fingal County Council, F15A/0520
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 Dunganstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dunganstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dunganstown.
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, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dunganstown.
- 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 Dunganstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Dunganstown · Baile Dongáin
- Area
- 123,357 m² (12.34 ha, 30.48 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lusk, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery East
- Electoral division
- Lusk, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Lusk electoral division: 10,774 people in 3,341 households; 78% of households own their home; 62% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Corduff (Hackett), Lusk, Newtowncorduff, Regles
- Placenames
- Dunganstown 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.