Laytown

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laytown, from 88,858 m² (8.89 ha, 21.96 acres) to 351,027 m² (35.1 ha, 86.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.

• P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 15 May 2017Grant permission

  Development on a site of circa 13.3 hectares. The development will co

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F17A/0268

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 Laytown.

Recorded monuments

• DU008-086 Enclosure
  Description

  A sub-circular double enclosure with possible internal features visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Located within relatively low lying tillage. No visible remains. Compiled by: David O’Connor Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 19 December 2014

• DU008-087 Enclosure
  Description

  A small circular enclosure visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph together with removed field boundaries, some of which were depicted on the 1st edition OS map (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Located within relatively low lying tillage which also contains another enclosure (DU008-086----). No visible remains. Compiled by: David O’Connor Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 19 December 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Laytown, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Laytown.

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.

No address of the register names Laytown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Laytown · Baile an Lígh

Area

552,902 m² (55.29 ha, 136.63 acres)

Civil parish

Baldongan, and its townlands

Barony

Balrothery East

Electoral division

Holmpatrick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,147 people lived in 1,390 households in the Holmpatrick electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baldongan, Ballaghstown, Ballykea

Placenames

Laytown 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.