Jamestown

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Jamestown, from 208 m² to 68,505 m² (6.85 ha, 16.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 · 16 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1MRE - Metro and Rail Economic Corridor (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 7 Mar 2024Grant permission

  The construction of an agricultural/Machinery shed and minor alteratio

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0198

• 16 Oct 2023Grant permission

  Planning permission is sought for the construction of a new glasshouse

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0619

• 21 Aug 2018Grant permission

  Extension to existing glass house and erection of 1 no. new rainwater

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F18A/0483

• 30 Oct 2015Grant permission

  Construction of a new part single-storey, part two-storey dwelling, a

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F15A/0493

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 Jamestown.

Recorded monuments

• DU011-109 Enclosure
  Description

  A well-defined cropmark of a large circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) with an internal ring-ditch (DU011-109001-) (diam. c. 8m) just NE of centre, visible on Google Earth (imagery date: 7/4/2008) (pers. comm. T. Condit). Located on relatively high ground with extensive views. No visible remains at ground level. Compiled by: Claire Breen Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 09 January 2015

• DU011-109001 Ring-ditch
  Description

  A ring-ditch (diam. c. 8m) just NE of centre of a large circular enclosure (DU011-109----) (diam. c. 50m), visible on Google Earth (imagery date: 7/4/2008) (pers. comm. T. Condit). Located on relatively high ground with extensive views. No visible remains at ground level. Compiled by: Claire Breen Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 16 October 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 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 Jamestown.

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 Jamestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Jamestown · Baile Shéamais

Area

164,511 m² (16.45 ha, 40.65 acres)

Civil parish

Swords, and its townlands

Barony

Nethercross

Electoral division

Swords-Lissenhall, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Swords-Lissenhall electoral division: 12,065 people in 3,928 households; 66% of households own their home; 58% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balheary, Belinstown, Magillstown

Placenames

Jamestown 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.