Knightstown
Townland in the civil parish of Lusk, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin; in Irish Baile an Ridire
- Area
- 74.9 ha
- 185 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 4,602 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- RU - Rural
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knightstown, from 243 m² to 177,571 m² (17.76 ha, 43.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 · 44 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R3RC - Rural Cluster (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 16 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3HA - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
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
12 Aug 2025Grant permission
Planning permission for a new single storey, detached, 3 bedroom house
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0731E
17 Jul 2025Grant permission
Renovation of derelict mud-walled single-storey cottage, erection of a
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0653E
27 Mar 2024Grant permission
Permission for the construction of a new two storey detached dwelling
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0279
29 Jun 2023Grant permission
The development will consist of the following; (A) the construction of
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0653
11 May 2021Grant permission
A detached 2 storey dwelling, on-site wastewater treatment unit and pe
Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0057
7 Mar 2019Grant permission
The construction of a new, detached, storey-and-a-half dwelling, on-si
Permission · Fingal County Council, F18A/0758
21 May 2018Grant permission
The development will consist of detached dormer dwelling, detached gar
Permission · Fingal County Council, F18A/0268
10 May 2018Grant permission
Permission for a single storey dwelling with vehicular entrance, waste
Permission · Fingal County Council, F18A/0247
9 May 2016Grant permission & grant outline perm.
Permission fo access roads and associated site works to serve 4 dwelli
Permission and outline permission · Fingal County Council, F16A/0205
29 Nov 2012Grant permission
Detached storey and a half 4 bedroom dwelling garage and waste water
Permission · Fingal County Council, F12A/0375
23 May 2012Refuse permission
A storey and a half detached house with BAF treatment plant and raised
Permission · Fingal County Council, F12A/0154
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 Knightstown.
Recorded monuments
- DU007-086 Earthwork
Description
In tillage field. Roughly circular-shaped cropmark visible on Apple Maps orthoimage. See attached orthoimage taken from Apple Maps Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 22 December 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knightstown.
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 Knightstown.
- 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 Knightstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Knightstown · Baile an Ridire
- Area
- 748,657 m² (74.87 ha, 185 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
- Bettyville, Johnstown, Nevitt, Parnelstown, Tooman, Wimbletown
- Placenames
- Knightstown 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.