Hedgestown
Townland in the civil parish of Lusk, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin; in Irish Baile Hoiste
- Area
- 52.2 ha
- 129 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 10,931 m² (1.09 ha, 2.7 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- RU - Rural
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hedgestown, from 1,997 m² to 66,056 m² (6.61 ha, 16.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 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
- P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 27 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1GE - General Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R3RC - Rural Cluster (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - N/AUNZ - Unzoned (N/A)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 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
11 Nov 2025Refuse permission
Permission is sought for the construction of a detached 2 storey dwell
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/1043E
27 May 2025Refuse permission
Permission is sought for the construction of a detached 2 storey dwell
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0464E
22 Feb 2019Grant permission
For the construction of a production and distributuion warehouse build
Permission · Fingal County Council, F18A/0593
24 Dec 2014Grant permission
Revised house type and repositioning of house on site on foot of appro
Permission · Fingal County Council, F14A/0530
14 Apr 2014Grant permission
Two storey detached dwelling, utilisation and widening of existing veh
Permission · Fingal County Council, F14A/0013
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 Hedgestown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Hedgestown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Hedgestown.
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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Hedgestown.
- 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 Hedgestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Hedgestown · Baile Hoiste
- Area
- 521,909 m² (52.19 ha, 128.97 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lusk, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery East
- Electoral division
- Lusk, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Lusk electoral division: 10,774 people in 3,341 households; 78% of households own their home; 62% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballough, Colecot, Courtlough, Jordanstown, Nevitt, Rowans Little
- Placenames
- Hedgestown 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.