# Effelstown, Co. Dublin: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lusk, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin; in Irish Baile Eifil. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 342,177 m² (34.22 ha, 84.55 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,177 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P1 RU - Rural, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lusk, https://everytownland.com/dublin/parish/lusk.md - Barony: Balrothery East - Electoral division: Lusk, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 10,774 people lived in 3,341 households in the Lusk electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 62% 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/16983 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 260363 - Centre: latitude 53.522719, longitude -6.142054 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Effelstown, from 454 m² to 82,582 m² (8.26 ha, 20.41 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1831043: 82,582 m² (8.26 ha, 20.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1831043.md - Parcel 1831055: 59,343 m² (5.93 ha, 14.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1831055.md - Parcel 1773411: 25,407 m² (2.54 ha, 6.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1773411.md - Parcel 1773401: 20,846 m² (2.08 ha, 5.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1773401.md - Parcel 1831045: 20,447 m² (2.04 ha, 5.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1831045.md - Parcel 5175714: 18,048 m² (1.8 ha, 4.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5175714.md - Parcel 1773406: 15,506 m² (1.55 ha, 3.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1773406.md - Parcel 1773415: 11,251 m² (1.13 ha, 2.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1773415.md - Parcel 1773403: 11,014 m² (1.1 ha, 2.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1773403.md - Parcel 1917245: 8,112 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1917245.md - Parcel 1773409: 7,059 m² (0.71 ha, 1.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1773409.md - Parcel 1831049: 6,006 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1831049.md - Parcel 1831044: 4,143 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1831044.md - Parcel 1773404: 3,100 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1773404.md - Parcel 4220195: 2,639 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4220195.md - Parcel 1773410: 2,494 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1773410.md - Parcel 1831048: 2,273 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1831048.md - Parcel 1831053: 2,177 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1831053.md - Parcel 1831054: 2,120 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1831054.md - Parcel 1773412: 2,062 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1773412.md - Parcel 1773418: 2,052 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1773418.md - Parcel 1831046: 2,020 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1831046.md - Parcel 1773413: 1,931 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1773413.md - Parcel 1831051: 1,856 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1831051.md - Parcel 1773417: 1,648 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1773417.md - Parcel 1831050: 911 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1831050.md - Parcel 1773405: 837 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1773405.md - Parcel 5113014: 753 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5113014.md - Parcel 1831047: 702 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1831047.md - Parcel 1773407: 683 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1773407.md - Parcel 1773402: 613 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1773402.md - Parcel 1773408: 597 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1773408.md - Parcel 1773414: 477 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1773414.md - Parcel 1773416: 463 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1773416.md - Parcel 1831052: 454 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1831052.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P1 RU - Rural (Agriculture): The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal; 49 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.fingal.ie/development-plan - R3 RC - Rural Cluster (Residential, mixed residential and other uses): The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal; 5 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) 7 applications, newest first. - 4 Sept 2026, Fingal County Council F26A/0807E: Referral. Permission. Planning Permission for New Detached Two Storey and One Storey House a. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 27 Aug 2026, Fingal County Council F26A/0780E: Invalid application. Permission. Planning Permission for new detached two storey and one storey house a. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 25 Apr 2024, Fingal County Council F24A/0386E: Refuse permission. Permission. Conversion of existing garage to granny flat, to include new single st. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 12 Apr 2024, Fingal County Council F24A/0336E: Invalid application. Permission. Conversion of existing garage to granny flat, to include new single st. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 21 Mar 2022, Fingal County Council F21A/0370: Grant permission. Permission. Permission to extend the previously granted dwelling house under F93A/. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 8 Jun 2012, Fingal County Council F07A/1158/E1: Grant extension of duration of perm.. Extension of duration of permission. Steel framed agricultural shed for machinery and vegetable storage usi. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 30 May 2012, Fingal County Council F12A/0068: Grant permission. Permission. Development of a 1-2 storey dwellingon a site of 0.23 hectares, compri. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Effelstown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DU008-011: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU008-011----. Situated in level field immediately W of railway. Northern field boundary, well established hedge line is a townland boundary. An aerial photograph taken in 1972 (FSI 578/7) shows a circular cropmark of a levelled enclosure (diam c. 35m). Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 15 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) - Rush and Lusk Railway Station, railway station, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 11323018, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=FI®no=11323018. Detached five-bay single-storey railway station, c.1850, with gabled entrance bay and three-bay single-storey extension to left-hand side. Timber canopies with decorative eaves supported by red brick walls to both platforms, which are linked by a cast-iron pedestrian bridge. Stone and cast-iron road bridge and red brick outbuilding to site.ROOF: Double pitched to ticket office; asbestos concrete tiles; red brick corniced chimneys; terracotta ridging; timber barge boards; finial to gable; flat felted roofs to canopies; corrugated iron roof to outbuilding. WALLS: Nap rendered; handmade red brick with original pointing to platform canopies; painted to front. OPENINGS: Square headed; rendered reveals; painted stone cills; uPVC casement frames; square headed doorcase; glazed panels flanking double doors; arched openings on platform walls with replacement timber doors. - Farmyard complex, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 11323026, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=FI®no=11323026. Farmyard complex with group of single- and two-storey stable and farm buildings, c.1850, with random rubble walls having red brick dressings.ROOF: Double pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles; skylight to front pitch; double pitched roof with red curved tiled to singe-storey building right of the house; double pitched slate coach house and stables roof; red brick chimney stack to coach house. WALLS: Random rubble walls. OPENINGS: Cambered headed window openings with red brick dressings; segmental headed carriage arch opening; tongue and grooved timber panelled doors to coach house; timber casements and timber and glazed door to house, c.1990. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Effelstown, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Effelstown. - 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/effelstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/dublin/effelstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/dublin/effelstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Effelstown 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) - Beau: https://everytownland.com/dublin/beau.md - Bishopland: https://everytownland.com/dublin/bishopland.md - Kingstown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/kingstown-260559.md - Lusk: https://everytownland.com/dublin/lusk.md - Raheny: https://everytownland.com/dublin/raheny.md - Rathartan: https://everytownland.com/dublin/rathartan.md - Rogerstown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/rogerstown.md - Whitestown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/whitestown-260925.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/effelstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/dublin/effelstown