# Folly, Co. Dublin: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Palmerstown, barony of Balrothery West, Co. Dublin; in Irish An Falaí.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 923,544 m² (92.35 ha, 228.21 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 31,257 m² (3.13 ha, 7.72 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P1 RU - Rural, the zone with the most parcels
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Palmerstown, https://everytownland.com/dublin/parish/palmerstown.md
- Barony: Balrothery West
- Electoral division: Clonmethan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Clonmethan electoral division: 933 people in 282 households; 80% of households own their home; 38% 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/16789
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 260376
- Centre: latitude 53.524931, longitude -6.359861 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Folly, from 1,432 m² to 434,279 m² (43.43 ha, 107.31 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1909908: 434,279 m² (43.43 ha, 107.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1909908.md
- Parcel 1811626: 223,986 m² (22.4 ha, 55.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1811626.md
- Parcel 2417302: 194,584 m² (19.46 ha, 48.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2417302.md
- Parcel 1909909: 52,215 m² (5.22 ha, 12.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1909909.md
- Parcel 5509544: 10,299 m² (1.03 ha, 2.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5509544.md
- Parcel 3067493: 3,911 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3067493.md
- Parcel 1909910: 2,840 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1909910.md
- Parcel 1811627: 1,432 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1811627.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

- P1 RU - Rural (Agriculture): The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal; 13 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)

3 applications, newest first.

- 17 Aug 2026, Fingal County Council F26A/0741E: Referral. Permission. The proposed development consists of a covered yard, dry fodder store. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli
- 3 Aug 2026, Fingal County Council F26A/0694E: Invalid application. Permission. The proposed development consists of a covered yard, dry fodder store,. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli
- 1 Nov 2017, Fingal County Council F17A/0673: Grant permission. Permission. Partial demolition, partial rebuilding, partial refurbishement and mod. 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 Folly.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Folly.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Folly.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: 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: 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 Folly.
- 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/folly.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/dublin/folly.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/dublin/folly.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Folly 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)

- Jordanstown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/jordanstown-260507.md
- Knockaneek: https://everytownland.com/dublin/knockaneek.md
- Palmerstown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/palmerstown-260716.md
- Wyestown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/wyestown.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.

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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/folly
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