Loughbarn
Loughbarn is a townland in the civil parish of Balrothery, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is Loch Bearna.
- Area
- 51.7 ha
- 128 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 2,289 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- RU - Rural
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughbarn, from 168 m² to 156,932 m² (15.69 ha, 38.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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
- P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 23 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R3RC - Rural Cluster (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 3 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
10 Feb 2022Grant permission
Construction of a new portal framed agricultural storage building (298
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0059
26 Jan 2021Grant permission
Permission for construction of a new portal framed agricultural storag
Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0035
25 Jun 2020App withdrawn as no ai recd in 6 months
Construction of new 206.5m2 Agricultural shed, alterations to existing
Permission · Fingal County Council, F20A/0299
25 Mar 2019Grant permission
A single storey dwelling with a new vehicular entrance, and an additio
Permission · Fingal County Council, F18A/0738
9 Aug 2018Grant permission for retention
Retention permission of an existing telecommunications installation co
Retention · Fingal County Council, F18A/0464
13 Jun 2018Grant permission
Demolition of rear annex, construction of new extensions
Permission · Fingal County Council, F18B/0024
3 Feb 2017Grant permission
Development comprising the construction of a new agricultural building
Permission · Fingal County Council, F17A/0053
11 Oct 2016Grant permission & grant retention
Retention planning permission for an agricultural building (917 sq.m.
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F16A/0252
28 Jan 2016Grant permission
Demolition of garage, construction of a new single storey extension to
Permission · Fingal County Council, F16B/0015
21 Jun 2012Grant permission for retention
Retention permission for the existing development. Retention of the e
Retention · Fingal County Council, F12A/0189
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 Loughbarn.
Recorded monuments
- DU005-109 Enclosure
Description
A circular enclosure visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Compiled by: David O’Connor Date of upload: 5 November 2013
- DU005-110 Field system
Description
A possible field system visible as a crop mark on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. A circular enclosure (DU005-109----) is located to the east (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). See attached Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 Compiled by: David O’Connor Date of upload: 5 November 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Loughbarn.
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 Loughbarn, 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 Loughbarn.
- 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 Loughbarn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Loughbarn · Loch Bearna
- Area
- 517,431 m² (51.74 ha, 127.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Balrothery, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery East
- Electoral division
- Balbriggan Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 19,347 people lived in 6,127 households in the Balbriggan Rural electoral division. 60% of households owned their home. 74% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balcunnin, Killalane, Palmerstown
- Placenames
- Loughbarn 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.