Kitchenstown
Kitchenstown is a townland in the civil parish of Hollywood, barony of Balrothery West, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is Baile Choiteáin.
- Area
- 79.3 ha
- 196 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 4,301 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- HA - High Amenity
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kitchenstown, from 879 m² to 215,659 m² (21.57 ha, 53.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3HA - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 37 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 4 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
8 Oct 2015Grant permission for retention
A mast and associated ground installations on elevated ground. The ma
Retention · Fingal County Council, F15A/0466
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 Kitchenstown.
Recorded monuments
- DU004-012001 Barrow - unclassified
Description
Situated on the northern, very steep, slope of a saddle-backed ridge, close to the townland boundary. The site comprises a circular round-topped mound (diam.7.5m; H 1m). Considered to be the smallest of the possible barrows in an extensive cemetery identified by Keeling (1983, 70, Site IV). Overgrown with gorse, single moss-covered stone on top. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 29 October 2014
- DU004-012002 Barrow - unclassified
Description
Located on the northern slope of a saddle-backed ridge under pasture, c. 52m north-east and slightly downslope of barrow (DU004-012001-). A circular flat-topped mound (diam. 12.5m; H 2m). The top of the mound at N has been damaged and eroded by livestock. Considered to be one of the largest of the possible barrows in an extensive cemetery (Keeling 1983, 70, Site V). Overgrown with gorse and extensive rabbit burrowing. See attached photographs courtesy of Ian Lennon Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 29 October 2014
- DU004-012003 Barrow - bowl-barrow
Description
Situated on the northern slope of a saddle-backed ridge. The site comprises a rounded mound (diam. 10m; H 1.5m) which is eroded at the east and north-east and overgrown with gorse. It is part of what is considered to be an extensive barrow cemetery identified by Keeling (1983, 70, Site VI). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 29 October 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kitchenstown.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Kitchenstown, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kitchenstown.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Kitchenstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Kitchenstown · Baile Choiteáin
- Area
- 793,416 m² (79.34 ha, 196.06 acres)
- Civil parish
- Hollywood, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery West
- Electoral division
- Hollywood, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,476 people lived in 486 households in the Hollywood electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Curragh East, Hazardstown, Killougher, Knockbrack, Lecklintown, Priorland
- Placenames
- Kitchenstown 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.