Gibbonsmoor
Townland in the civil parish of Balrothery, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin; in Irish Móin Ghiobúin
- Area
- 3.9 ha
- 10 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 19,379 m² (1.94 ha, 4.79 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- GB - Green Belt
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gibbonsmoor, from 463 m² to 38,295 m² (3.83 ha, 9.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 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
- G3GB - Green Belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
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
9 Sept 2025Refuse permission
Planning Permission is sought to (a) construct a single storey indepen
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0823E
19 May 2022Grant permission
The decommissioning of an existing wastewater treatment plant (888 sq.
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0255
12 Aug 2016Grant permission
2 storey detached clubhouse, on-site waste water treatment unit and pe
Permission · Fingal County Council, F16A/0075
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 Gibbonsmoor.
Recorded monuments
- DU005-014 Ring-ditch
Description
Located in waterlogged moorland. An aerial photograph (BKS 2744062/3) shows a cropmark of circular ditched feature (diam. c. 20m). Located within a very boggy field which had been ploughed but is now under rough grass and waterlogged. Extensive drainage ditches in the vicinity. Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Update by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 7 November 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gibbonsmoor.
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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gibbonsmoor.
- 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 Gibbonsmoor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Gibbonsmoor · Móin Ghiobúin
- Area
- 39,236 m² (3.92 ha, 9.7 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
- Cullenhill, Glebe South, Inch, Knock
- Placenames
- Gibbonsmoor 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.