# Knightstown, Co. Dublin: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lusk, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin; in Irish Baile an Ridire. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 748,657 m² (74.87 ha, 185 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,602 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P1 RU - Rural, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 11 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lusk, https://everytownland.com/dublin/parish/lusk.md - Barony: Balrothery East - Electoral division: Lusk, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Dublin, https://everytownland.com/dublin.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16992 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 260566 - Centre: latitude 53.544478, longitude -6.237704 (WGS 84) ## 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); 39 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1770747: 177,571 m² (17.76 ha, 43.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770747.md - Parcel 1834231: 79,353 m² (7.94 ha, 19.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1834231.md - Parcel 1834232: 68,593 m² (6.86 ha, 16.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1834232.md - Parcel 1770731: 53,982 m² (5.4 ha, 13.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770731.md - Parcel 5610864: 53,440 m² (5.34 ha, 13.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5610864.md - Parcel 5077775: 45,184 m² (4.52 ha, 11.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5077775.md - Parcel 1770746: 37,816 m² (3.78 ha, 9.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770746.md - Parcel 5077771: 32,415 m² (3.24 ha, 8.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5077771.md - Parcel 1770836: 25,741 m² (2.57 ha, 6.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770836.md - Parcel 1770744: 24,812 m² (2.48 ha, 6.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770744.md - Parcel 1770743: 20,082 m² (2.01 ha, 4.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770743.md - Parcel 1770742: 17,204 m² (1.72 ha, 4.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770742.md - Parcel 1770745: 14,896 m² (1.49 ha, 3.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770745.md - Parcel 1834229: 11,159 m² (1.12 ha, 2.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1834229.md - Parcel 1770740: 11,017 m² (1.1 ha, 2.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770740.md - Parcel 1770741: 8,296 m² (0.83 ha, 2.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770741.md - Parcel 1770736: 7,629 m² (0.76 ha, 1.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770736.md - Parcel 1868069: 5,653 m² (0.57 ha, 1.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1868069.md - Parcel 2559278: 5,555 m² (0.56 ha, 1.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2559278.md - Parcel 5620858: 4,602 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5620858.md - Parcel 2559276: 4,361 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2559276.md - Parcel 1770737: 4,276 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770737.md - Parcel 1834230: 4,176 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1834230.md - Parcel 2530961: 4,075 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2530961.md - Parcel 5620842: 2,744 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5620842.md - Parcel 5531250: 2,524 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5531250.md - Parcel 1770734: 2,516 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770734.md - Parcel 1770735: 2,515 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770735.md - Parcel 5531247: 2,317 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5531247.md - Parcel 1834228: 2,284 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1834228.md - Parcel 5025553: 2,269 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5025553.md - Parcel 5531225: 2,209 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5531225.md - Parcel 1770738: 1,945 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770738.md - Parcel 5620843: 1,470 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5620843.md - Parcel 1770733: 1,450 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770733.md - Parcel 1770732: 893 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770732.md - Parcel 4794779: 713 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4794779.md - Parcel 1770739: 675 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770739.md - Parcel 1834144: 243 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1834144.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P1 RU - Rural (Agriculture): The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal; 44 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.fingal.ie/development-plan - R3 RC - Rural Cluster (Residential, mixed residential and other uses): The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal; 16 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.fingal.ie/development-plan - G3 HA - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.fingal.ie/development-plan ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 11 applications, newest first. - 12 Aug 2025, Fingal County Council F25A/0731E: Grant permission. Permission. Planning permission for a new single storey, detached, 3 bedroom house. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 17 Jul 2025, Fingal County Council F25A/0653E: Grant permission. Permission. Renovation of derelict mud-walled single-storey cottage, erection of a. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 27 Mar 2024, Fingal County Council F24A/0279: Grant permission. Permission. Permission for the construction of a new two storey detached dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 29 Jun 2023, Fingal County Council F22A/0653: Grant permission. Permission. The development will consist of the following; (A) the construction of. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 11 May 2021, Fingal County Council F21A/0057: Grant permission. Permission. A detached 2 storey dwelling, on-site wastewater treatment unit and pe. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 7 Mar 2019, Fingal County Council F18A/0758: Grant permission. Permission. The construction of a new, detached, storey-and-a-half dwelling, on-si. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 21 May 2018, Fingal County Council F18A/0268: Grant permission. Permission. The development will consist of detached dormer dwelling, detached gar. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 10 May 2018, Fingal County Council F18A/0247: Grant permission. Permission. Permission for a single storey dwelling with vehicular entrance, waste. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 9 May 2016, Fingal County Council F16A/0205: Grant permission & grant outline perm.. Permission and outline permission. Permission fo access roads and associated site works to serve 4 dwelli. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 29 Nov 2012, Fingal County Council F12A/0375: Grant permission. Permission. Detached storey and a half 4 bedroom dwelling garage and waste water. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 23 May 2012, Fingal County Council F12A/0154: Refuse permission. Permission. A storey and a half detached house with BAF treatment plant and raised. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knightstown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DU007-086: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU007-086----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knightstown. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/dublin/knightstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/dublin/knightstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/dublin/knightstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/dublin.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bettyville: https://everytownland.com/dublin/bettyville.md - Johnstown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/johnstown-260499.md - Nevitt: https://everytownland.com/dublin/nevitt.md - Parnelstown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/parnelstown.md - Tooman: https://everytownland.com/dublin/tooman.md - Wimbletown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/wimbletown.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/dublin/knightstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/dublin/knightstown