Irishtown

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Irishtown, from 410 m² to 272,433 m² (27.24 ha, 67.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• G3GB - Green Belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 25 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 28 Mar 2025Grant permission

  Relocation of the front vehicular access. Addition of a new front can

  Permission · Fingal County Council, FW25A/0126E

• 5 Nov 2024Conditional

  permission for a proposed development to install 33kV underground cabling and associated infrastructure required to connect Irishtown Solar Farm (Irishtown, Spricklestown, Ward Lower, Co. Dublin) to the grid via the existing Gallanstown 110kV substation on lands at Ballymacarney, The Ward, County Meath. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460927

• 21 Oct 2024Grant permission

  Permission for a proposed development to install 33kV underground cabl

  Permission · Fingal County Council, FW24A/0433E

• 21 Oct 2024N/a

  permission for a proposed development to install 33kV underground cabling and associated infrastructure required to connect Irishtown Solar Farm (Irishtown, Spricklestown, Ward Lower, Co. Dublin) to the grid via the existing Gallanstown 110kV substation on lands at Ballymacarney and part of Baytown, The Ward, County Meath. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2460871

• 6 Jun 2023Grant permission

  Permission for development at a site of c. 61.1 hectares. The developm

  Permission · Fingal County Council, FW22A/0201

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 the townland of Irishtown.

Recorded monuments

• DU010-001 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Located in a large arable field, on an alluvial terrace, c. 190m S of the W-E running Ward River. This field is on lands formerly associated with Irishtown House (demolished), which lay c. 440m to the SW. Now within open field W of M2. Another ring-ditch (DU010-004----) is located c. 267m to the WSW. There has been widespread levelling of field boundaries as shown on the Ordnance Survey maps. An aerial photograph taken in the early 1990s (Dr. Gillian Barret AP 17) shows a circular cropmark (ext. diam. c. 18m). Not visible at ground level. The site appears clearly on Google Earth Coverage of 24 June 2018. The ring-ditch appears as a circular feature evidenced by a positive cropmark (ext. diam. c. 12.6m) defined by a ditch (Wth c. 2m). There is no evidence for an entrance gap through the ditch. Fragments of linear features are visible in general vicinity. Updated by: Tom Condit Date of upload: 22 April 2021

• DU010-003 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Located in a large arable field, on an alluvial terrace, c. 440m SSE of the W-E running Ward River. This field is on lands formerly associated with Irishtown House (demolished), which lay c. 195m to the WNW. Now within open field W of M2. Two ring-ditches are located in the vicinity; ring-ditch (DU010-001----) is located c. 400m to the NNW, and ring-ditch (DU010-001----) is located c. 420m to the NNE. There has been widespread levelling of field boundaries as shown on the Ordnance Survey maps. The site is best viewed on Google Earth Coverage of 7 May 2017. The feature appears as positive cropmarks comprising two roughly parallel ditches (each Wth c. 1.4m) that appear to define an ancient roadway. The ditches, c. 10m apart, are traceable for a distance of c. 340m running in WSW–ENE direction. Compiled by: Tom Condit Uploaded on: 22 April 2021

• DU010-004 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Located in a large arable field, on an alluvial terrace, c. 170m S of the W-E running Ward River. This field is on lands formerly associated with Irishtown House (demolished), which lay c. 190m to the SSW. Now within open field W of M2. Another ring-ditch (DU010-001----) is located c. 267m to the ENE. There has been widespread levelling of field boundaries as shown on the Ordnance Survey maps. The site is best viewed on Google Earth Coverage of 7 May 2017. The ring-ditch was identified as a circular feature evidenced by a positive cropmark (ext. diam. c. 16m) defined by a ditch (Wth c. 2m). There is no evidence for an entrance gap through the ditch. Fragments of linear features and maculae are visible in general vicinity. The site was first reported by Mr. Paul Steen. Compiled by: Tom Condit Uploaded on: 22 April 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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).

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 Irishtown.

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.

No address of the register names Irishtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Irishtown · An Baile Gaelach

Area

758,246 m² (75.82 ha, 187.37 acres)

Civil parish

Ward, and its townlands

Barony

Castleknock

Electoral division

The Ward, the unit of the census

Census 2022

The Ward electoral division: 13,289 people in 3,674 households; 63% of households own their home; 88% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacarney (Co. Meath), Gallanstown, Hollywood, Spricklestown, Ward Lower

Placenames

Irishtown 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.