# Laytown, Co. Dublin: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Baldongan, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin; in Irish Baile an Lígh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 552,902 m² (55.29 ha, 136.63 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 113,017 m² (11.3 ha, 27.93 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P1 RU - Rural, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Baldongan, https://everytownland.com/dublin/parish/baldongan.md - Barony: Balrothery East - Electoral division: Holmpatrick, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Dublin, https://everytownland.com/dublin.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16869 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 260582 - Centre: latitude 53.545002, longitude -6.128576 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1909379: 351,027 m² (35.1 ha, 86.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1909379.md - Parcel 1811193: 113,017 m² (11.3 ha, 27.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1811193.md - Parcel 1909378: 88,858 m² (8.89 ha, 21.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1909378.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P1 RU - Rural (Agriculture): The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal; 11 parcels. 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) 1 application, newest first. - 15 May 2017, Fingal County Council F17A/0268: Grant permission. Permission. Development on a site of circa 13.3 hectares. The development will co. 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 Laytown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DU008-086: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU008-086----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU008-087----. 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 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 Laytown. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 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/laytown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/dublin/laytown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/dublin/laytown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Laytown 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) - Baldongan: https://everytownland.com/dublin/baldongan.md - Ballaghstown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/ballaghstown.md - Ballykea: https://everytownland.com/dublin/ballykea.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/laytown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/dublin/laytown