Kingstown
Townland in the civil parish of Lusk, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin; in Irish Baile an Rí
- Area
- 20.7 ha
- 51 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 4,697 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- RU - Rural
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kingstown, from 214 m² to 103,132 m² (10.31 ha, 25.48 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 17 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
10 Feb 2023Grant permission
The renovation and refurbishement of the existing single storey cottag
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22B/0142
26 Jun 2020Grant permission
Alterations to approved plans F15A/0404. The alterations are to reduc
Permission · Fingal County Council, F20A/0302
12 Feb 2016Grant permission
Demolition of the flat roofed extension and attached outbuildings to r
Permission · Fingal County Council, F16A/0038
13 Nov 2015Grant permission
Dormer bungalow, detached garage, on-site waste water treatment
Permission · Fingal County Council, F15A/0404
8 Jun 2012Refuse ext. of duration of permission
Replacement and relocation of existing dwelling.
Extension of duration of permission · Fingal County Council, F07A/0679/E1
8 Jun 2012Grant extension of duration of perm.
Steel framed agricultural shed for machinery and vegetable storage usi
Extension of duration of permission · Fingal County Council, F07A/1158/E1
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 Kingstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kingstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kingstown.
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 Kingstown.
- 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 Kingstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Kingstown · Baile an Rí
- Area
- 207,227 m² (20.72 ha, 51.21 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
- Effelstown, Horestown, Raheny, Rathartan, Tyrrelstown Big
- Placenames
- Kingstown 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.