Galloping Green North
Townland in the civil parish of Kill, barony of Rathdown, Co. Dublin; in Irish Faiche na Rás Thuaidh
- Area
- 45.9 ha
- 113 acres
- Land parcels
- 112
- registered freehold, median 438 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Objective A
- Planning
- 100
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
112 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Galloping Green North, from 5 m² to 11,817 m² (1.18 ha, 2.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 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
- R2Objective A (Existing residential)
COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown · 143 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Objective F (Open space, park)
COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Objective SNI (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown · 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
2 Sept 2026Assessment period
The proposed development will consist of the following: A) The construction of
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0657/WEB
13 Aug 2026Declare application invalid
(1) Alteration to existing Front Elevation at Main Entrance, (2) Removal of both
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26B/0451
5 Aug 2026Assessment period
Planning permission is sought for 2 no. dormers on each side of the existing ga
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26B/0444/WEB
10 Jul 2026Grant permission
Alterations to front porch, and single storey front extension, new dormer window
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26B/0395/WEB
18 Jun 2026Grant permission
• Demolition of part of the existing rear ground-floor extension. • A part singl
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26B/0355/WEB
16 Jun 2026Grant permission
The development will consist of The conversion of existing attic into first flo
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26B/0351/WEB
11 Jun 2026Declare application invalid
The development will consist of The conversion of existing attic into first flo
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26B/0342/WEB
3 Jun 2026Assessment period
Retention permission for the demolition of the existing two storey pitched-roof
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0408/WEB
3 Jun 2026Grant permission
Permission is sought for revisions and alterations to previously permitted deve
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0409/WEB
27 May 2026Declare application invalid
Reention permission for the demolition of the existing two storey pitched-roof d
Permission for retention · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0392/WEB
21 May 2026Grant certificate of exemption
3 Units
Certificate of exemption - part v · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, V/038/26
14 Apr 2026Grant permission
Increasing the height of the boundary wall/fence along Newtownpark Ave and Mead
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0286/WEB
1 Apr 2026Grant permission
Conversion of hipped roof into gabled end, increased attic accommodation to inc
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26B/0193/WEB
11 Mar 2026Grant permission
Permission is sought for the construction of single-storey extension to the rea
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0186/WEB
23 Feb 2026Declare invalid (site notice)
Conversion of hipped roof into gabled end, increased attic accommodation to inc
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26B/0109/WEB
16 Feb 2026Declare application refused (8 wks)
2 units
Certificate of exemption - part v · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, V/010/26
13 Feb 2026Grant permission
The change of use from 153.8sqm residential dwelling with 82sqm. medical office
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0098/WEB
11 Feb 2026Grant certificate of exemption
2 Units
Certificate of exemption - part v · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, V/011/26
11 Feb 2026Refuse permission
The development will consist of the (i) demolition of existing detached 4-bedroo
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0090
11 Feb 2026Refuse permission
(i) demolition of existing 4-bedroom 2-storey dwelling and removal of existing v
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0085
10 Feb 2026Declare application invalid
The change of use from 153.8sqm residential dwelling with 82sqm. medical office
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0081/WEB
4 Feb 2026Withdraw the application
A) Change of use from 162.3sqm residential dwelling with 82sqm. medical office t
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0062/WEB
29 Jan 2026Grant extension of duration of perm.
Permission for a Strategic Housing Development proposed for development in this
Extension of duration of permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, ABP31244722/E
2 Jan 2026Grant permission
a) removal of existing chimney and detached boilerhouse to rear of dwelling, an
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26B/0001/WEB
23 Dec 2025Grant permission
Full planning permission for the following to the existing single storey fully
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25B/0738/WEB
The 25 most recent of over 100 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 Galloping Green North.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Galloping Green North.
Architectural heritage
- Disciples of the Divine Master Liturgical Centre, house, 1800–1837 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey over part raised basement house, extant 1837, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (three-bay deep) full-height return abutting two- or four-bay full-height parallel block (south). Sold, 1990, to accommodate alternative use. Hipped slate roof on a quadrangular plan behind parapet with hipped slate roof abutting hipped double-pile (M-profile) slate roof (south), clay ridge tiles, cement rendered chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and concealed rainwater goods retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Roughcast wall to front (north) elevation with cut-granite stringcourse supporting parapet; roughcast surface finish (remainder) bellcast over rendered plinth. Central door opening approached by flight of six cut-granite steps between wrought iron railings. Square-headed flanking window openings. Paired square-headed window openings (basement) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing three-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Square-headed window openings (remainder) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement aluminium casement windows replacing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set in relandscaped grounds.
- Post box, 1939–1962 · Regional interest
Description
Wall-mounted cast-iron "wall box" post box, between 1939-62, with "P7T [Posts and Telegraphs]" monogram. Now disused. Set in coursed rubble granite boundary wall.
- Abilene, house, 1800–1837 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey over part raised basement house, extant 1837, on a rectangular plan; four-bay (east) or six-bay (west) full-height side elevations. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1941. Hipped slate roofs on a U-shaped plan centred on pitched slate roofs (south), clay or terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slightly overhanging timber boarded eaves having paired timber consoles with cast-iron rainwater goods (south) on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Rendered walls. Elliptical-headed central door opening in elliptical-headed recess approached by flight of seven cut-granite steps between cast-iron railings, concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having oversailing fanlight. Square-headed flanking window openings in tripartite arrangement with cut-granite sills, carved timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having one-over-one sidelights. Paired square-headed window openings (basement) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing three-over-six timber sash windows without horns behind wrought iron bars. Square-headed window openings (remainder) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows (north) or six-over-six timber sash windows without horns (south). Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, and plasterwork cornice to ceiling; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds with roughcast boundary wall to perimeter having rubble granite coping.
- Abilene, gates/railings/walls, 1800–1837 · Regional interest
Description
Gateway, extant 1837, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of cut-granite cylindrical piers having cornices below fluted domed capping supporting spear head-detailed cast-iron double gates with rendered chamfered outer piers having cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping supporting spear head-detailed cast-iron railings. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Abilene.
- Bellosguardo, gate lodge, 1861–1887 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, extant 1887, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled advanced porch. Hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles centred on rendered chimney stack having "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornice below capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having consoles. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rusticated rendered piers to corners. Camber-headed central door opening approached by two cut-granite steps, and moulded rendered surround with hood moulding centred on keystone framing glazed timber panelled double doors. Camber-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and moulded rendered surrounds with hood mouldings centred on keystones framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds perpendicular to road.
- Ardmeen, house, 1800–1837 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house, extant 1837, on a rectangular plan centred on single-bay two-storey gabled higher breakfront; three- or five-bay single-storey projection to ground floor centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed advanced porch. Occupied, 1911. Pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roofs centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (breakfront); flat-topped mono-pitched fibre-cement slate roof centred on flat roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gable on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards having paired timber consoles retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed central door opening into house with concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled door having sidelights on panelled risers. Square-headed flanking window openings in tripartite arrangement with cut-granite sills, reeded engaged colonette mullions (east) or timber mullions (west), and concealed dressings framing four-over-four timber sash windows having two-over-two sidelights. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (first floor) with cut-granite sills, timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having capping supporting wrought iron double gates.
- Ardmeen, gates/railings/walls, 1844–1908 · Regional interest
Description
Gateway, extant 1908, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of finial-topped cast-iron open work piers supporting spear head-detailed cast-iron double gates with granite ashlar outer piers having cut-granite capping supporting spear head-detailed cast-iron gates. Road fronted.
- Glendower House, house, 1800–1837 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house, extant 1837, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor; single-bay two-storey side elevations. "Improved", pre-1908, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Refenestrated. Hipped slate roof behind parapet with ridge tiles, paired rendered "wallhead" chimney stacks to rear (north) elevation having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and concealed rainwater goods. Rendered channelled walls (ground floor) on rendered chamfered plinth with thumbnail beaded cornice on blind frieze on stringcourse; rendered surface finish (first floor) with rendered channelled piers to corners supporting "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornice on blind frieze on entablature below balustraded parapet. Square-headed central door opening (porch) with Composite columns on plinths framing timber door having sidelights below overlights. Round-headed door opening into house, cut-granite block-and-start surround supporting "Cavetto" cornice framing timber door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings (ground floor) with cut-granite sills on consoles, and moulded rendered surrounds having bull nose-detailed reveals framing replacement one-over-one uPVC sash windows. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with thumbnail beaded sill course, and "Acroterion"-detailed moulded rendered lugged surrounds having concave reveals framing replacement one-over-one uPVC sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds.
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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3284 (ZIP).
- 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 Galloping Green North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Galloping Green North · Faiche na Rás Thuaidh
- Area
- 458,539 m² (45.85 ha, 113.31 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kill, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathdown
- Electoral division
- Blackrock-Carysfort, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Blackrock-Carysfort electoral division: 6,232 people in 2,185 households; 71% of households own their home; 18% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Deansgrange, Galloping Green South, Glebe, Newpark, Newtownpark, Stillorgan Park
- Placenames
- Galloping Green North 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.