Flemingtown
Townland in the civil parish of Balrothery, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin; in Irish Baile an Phléimeannaigh
Parcel 5090419
- Area
- 94 m²
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it, 86 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- R2 RS - Residential (The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029) The objective
- Townland
- Flemingtown
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- 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 this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 159.5 ha
- 394 acres
- Land parcels
- 700
- registered freehold, median 130 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- RS - Residential
- Planning
- 87
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
700 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Flemingtown, from 1 m² to 145,720 m² (14.57 ha, 36.01 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 · 603 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 · 60 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1RA - Residential Area (New/proposed residential)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 29 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4OS - Open Space (Active open space)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 22 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2RV - Rural Village (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 18 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S3CI - Community Infrastructure (Community facilities)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 5 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 - G1F1 - Open Space (Open space, park)
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 1 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
1 Sept 2026Registration
Lagan Homes Balbriggan Ltd intend to make a planning application for p
Lrd application · Fingal County Council, LRD0081/S3E
2 Jul 2026Request additional information
Planning permission is sought for: 1/ Retention for construction of s
Retention · Fingal County Council, F26A/0579E
26 Jun 2026Invalid application
Planning permission is sought for: 1/ Retention for construction of s
Retention · Fingal County Council, F26A/0558E
24 Apr 2026Grant permission
Planning Permission for the enlargement of an existing garden shed to
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0334E
31 Mar 2026Grant permission
Construction of a single storey detached home office/garden room (inte
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0259E
13 Mar 2026Refuse permission
Permission for the construction of a 4 storey building with part 3 sto
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0186E
6 Feb 2026Invalid application due to site notice
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A 4 STOREY BUILDING WITH PART 3 STO
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0078E
18 Dec 2025Grant permission
The development will consist of the construction of 815 no. dwellings
Lrd application · Fingal County Council, LRD0069/S3E
12 Nov 2025Grant permission
Planning permission for attic conversion with dormer to rear roof to a
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/1049E
6 Nov 2025Refuse permission
The proposed development will consist of residential development const
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/1028E
9 Sept 2025Refuse permission
The development will consist of the installation of a 30-metre-high mu
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0818E
18 Jul 2025Grant permission
Planning permission for alterations to raise part of existing roof rid
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0657E
15 Jul 2025Refuse permission
a proposed single-storey extension to side & rear of existing dwelling
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0643E
15 Jul 2025Refuse permission for retention
Retention of 3no. single storey sheds within existing farmyard for use
Retention · Fingal County Council, F25A/0642E
10 Jun 2025Refuse permission
Planning permission is sought for new detached dwellinghouse along wit
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0503E
9 Jun 2025Invalid application
Planning permission is requested for a proposed single-storey extensio
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0501E
29 Oct 2024Grant permission for retention
retention planning permission for window to side elevation at 1 Blackt
Retention · Fingal County Council, F24A/0951E
17 Oct 2024Withdraw application
retention planning permission for window to side elevation at 1 Blackt
Retention · Fingal County Council, F24A/0917E
29 May 2024Refuse permission
The development will consist of the demolition
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0489
23 Apr 2024Grant permission
Permission is sought for a single storey ground floor rear extension.
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0370
27 Mar 2024Refuse permission
The Development will consist
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0278
20 Dec 2023Refuse permission
Dean Swift Property Holdings Unlimited Company, intend to apply for a
Lrd application · Fingal County Council, LRD0006/S3
1 Nov 2023Grant permission
The proposed development will consist of the
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0354
12 Sept 2023Grant permission
Permission is sought for alterations to approved plans (F22A/0270) for
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0537
22 Aug 2023Grant permission
permission for the construction of 4no. to storey terraced 3 bedroom d
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0075
The 25 most recent of 87 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 Flemingtown.
Recorded monuments
- DU001-004 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Natural spring well situated in an area of rock outcrop adjacent to farm buildings. Enclosed by a recently constructed ditch and bank which was built to keep farm animals out. Annotated 'Lady Well' on all editions of the OSi historic maps. Described by Ó Danachair (1958, 72) as a 'small pool c. 5 ' x 3', between 2 flat rock in the corner of a small garden, with a good spring. No devotions now, but known as a holy well'. Lady Well described in 1974 by Henry A. Wheeler as a small pool with concrete dam, apparently used for watering animals' (SMR File 14/05/1974). Comprises a roughly circular, water filled depression into which modern field drains empty. It was once a large structure and water was channeled through the rock into a small stream (Skyvova, 2005, 51). Geophysical prospecting within the field immediately to the east of the holy well picked up natural and ferrous anomalies but no definite archaeological sites (Nicholls & Shiel, 2005). See attached photos (04/05) taken by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F024.06.00139 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/16655 and F024.06.00140 accessible online at https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/30785. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 11 April 2023
- DU001-014 House - Neolithic
Description
Pre-development investigations in 2005 identified evidence dating from the Neolithic through to the early medieval period. The earliest activity at the site dates from the Neolithic. It comprises a Neolithic house, oriented roughly N-S (L 10m, Wth 6m). The footprint of the building was wholly defined by a slot trench, suggesting that the structure was plank built with evidence for a doorway on the W side. A substantial assemblage of early Neolithic pottery and struck flint were retrieved from the slot trench. This produced a radiocarbon date of 3394-3387 cal. BC (Bolger, T.2009, 25-26). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 7 October 2014
- DU001-015 Enclosure
Description
Pre-development investigations in 2005 revealed a multiple-ditched enclosure. There was no indication of a habitation area within the excavated portion of the site and only very limited evidence for structures. One of the ditches produced a calibrated radiocarbon date of AD 1002-1013 (Bolger, T 2009, 27-29). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 7 October 2014
- DU001-016 Industrial site
Description
Pre-development investigations in 2005 revealed evidence for metalworking in the form of bowl furnaces with assocaited pits. A large quantity of ferric slag was retrieved from the site (Bolger 2009, 32, Fig.10). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 7 October 2014
- DU001-017 Kiln - corn-drying
Description
Pre-development investigations in 2005 revealed a cluster of kilns including one keyhole-shaped feature with a perfectly circular chamber (Diam.2.60m, D 0.05m-0.24m) and a flue or passage which exited the chamber on the W. The upper stone of a rotary quern was also uncovered (Bolger 2009, 32-33). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by Christine Baker Date of upload: 7 October 2014
- DU001-022001 Excavation - miscellaneous
Description
Geophysical survey (licence no. 05R0137) identified a series of anomalies (Nicholls and Shiel 2005) that suggested the presence of potential archaeological features. Test excavation (Licence no. 07E0057) confirmed the presence of a dense pit cluster interspersed with a series of linear features and curving ditches within an area measuring 45m by 50. A piece of struck flint was recovered from a linear feature suggesting a prehistoric date (Elliot 2007, 285). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 6 February 2015
- DU001-022002 Pit
Description
Geophysical survey (licence no. 05R0137) identified a series of anomalies that suggested the presence of potential archaeological features. Test excavation confirmed the presence of a pit cluster that consisted of at least six pits, circular in plan (average 0.30m diam.) with similar charcoal rich fills with burnt bone inclusions (Elliot 2007, 286). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 6 February 2015
- DU001-023 Field system
Description
Geophysical survey (Licence 05R137; Nicholls and Shiel, 2005) identified strong linear and rectilinear responses that suggest a large complex at the interior of which are numerous internal divisions, pit-type responses and possible industrial activity. Possibly a continuation of early medieval activity excavated immediately to the south (DU001-015----). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 6 February 2015
- DU001-024 Enclosure
Description
Geophysical survey (licence no. 050R137) identified a series of anomalies (Nicholls and Shiel 2005). Test excavation (licence no. 07E0057) confirmed the presence of a series of ditches (average 0.30m deep) that form a sub-square enclosure (Elliot 2007, 288). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 6 February 2015
- DU001-025 Enclosure
Description
Geophysical survey (licence no. 050R137) identified a series of anomalies thought to represent a series of conjoined enclosures with several large pit-type anomalies (Nicholls and Shiel 2005). Test excavation (licence no. 07E0057) confirmed the presence of a cluster of pits and related linear and curvilinear features. Fill of features consisted of charcoal rich soil, some with burnt bone inclusions (Elliot 2007, 291). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 6 February 2015
- DU001-026 Excavation - miscellaneous
Description
Geophysical survey (licence no. 05R0137) identified a series of anomalies thought to represent a series of conjoined enclosures with several large pit-type anomalies (Nicholls and Shiel 2005). Test excavation (licence no. 07E0057) confirmed the presence of a cluster of pits and possible structural features within an area 30m x60m under redeposited natural. Burnt and charcoal fills were predominant (Elliot 2007, 292). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 6 February 2015
- DU001-030 Kiln - corn-drying
Description
Excavated in 2002 (licence no. 02E0296), the monument consisted of a sub-circular bowl (0.26m deep) with a shallow curvilinear flue cut into the natural subsoil. Three fills indicated at least three episodes of use, and each produced carbonised barley grains. Two small fragments of baked clay, two angular flint fragments and a bipolar flake were recovered from the bowl. Comparable kilns have been dated to the Early Bronze Age (Byrnes 2002, 7). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 6 February 2015
- DU001-031 Enclosure
Description
Excavated in 2002 (Licence no. 02E0297), the remains were found to consist of a curvilinear fosse (1m in width), representing roughly one third of a circle (10.5m diam.). A sherd of Bronze Age coarse pottery was recovered from the ditch. Two radiocarbon dates of 985-817 cal. BC and 217-344 cal. AD indicated a construction date for this enclosure in the late Bronze Age with subsequent activity in the late Iron Age. The enclosure was truncated by a linear field drain from which a sherd of Leinster cooking ware was recovered (Byrnes 2002, 7). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 6 February 2015
- DU001-032 Ring-ditch
Description
Located at the SE corner of a large arable field. The ring-ditch, one of a number of cropmark sites W of Balbriggan, is clearly visible on Apple Maps (June 2018). Site comprises a circular ring-ditch (ext. diam. c. 13m) defined by a ditch (Wth c. 2m), where visible. Compiled by: Tom Condit Uploaded on: 21 April 2021
- DU001-033 Enclosure
Description
Located at the SE corner of a large arable field is the southern half of a circular enclosure, one of a number of cropmark enclosures W of Balbriggan. It is clearly visible on Google Earth imagery (24 June 2018). Site bisected by later field boundary with enclosure most clearly visible in arable field to S. It comprises an circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35.4m) defined to the S by a ditch (Wth c. 1.3m). Other linear and curvilinear cropmarks to the E and W may be associated with the enclosure. Compiled by: Tom Condit Uploaded on: 21 April 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Flemingtown.
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 Flemingtown.
- 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 Flemingtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Flemingtown · Baile an Phléimeannaigh
- Area
- 1,594,632 m² (159.46 ha, 394.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- Balrothery, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery East
- Electoral division
- Balbriggan Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Balbriggan Rural electoral division: 19,347 people in 6,127 households; 60% of households own their home; 74% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balscaddan, Bremore, Clonard or Folkstown Great, Gormanston (Co. Meath), Knocknagin, Tobersool
- Placenames
- Flemingtown 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.