Mallahow
Mallahow is a townland in the civil parish of Hollywood, barony of Balrothery West, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is Mullach Uamha.
- Area
- 243.2 ha
- 601 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 20,154 m² (2.02 ha, 4.98 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- RU - Rural
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mallahow, from 1,915 m² to 1,101,374 m² (110.14 ha, 272.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 · 25 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 · 2 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 2016Grant permission
Extending the existing ground floor extension and raising the roof to
Permission · Fingal County Council, F16B/0031
23 Jul 2015Grant permission
Two storey house with single storey sun room to the side
Permission · Fingal County Council, F15A/0188
13 Feb 2012Grant permission
A traditional two storey house and single storey sunroom to the side u
Permission · Fingal County Council, F11A/0354
21 Oct 2011Grant permission
Permission to construct an agricultural shed for dry storage of 221 sq
Permission · Fingal County Council, F11A/0126
24 Feb 2011App. withdrawn as no c.ai recd in 6 mths
Construction of a two storey dwelling of 556m² floor area on a site of
Permission · Fingal County Council, F10A/0376
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 Mallahow.
Recorded monuments
- DU004-020 Castle - motte
Description
Situated immediately south of road, on a south-facing slope under pasture. The site comprises a flat-topped circular mound (diam. at base 21m E-W; 27m N-S, diam. at top 8m; H 5m). Waterlogged area around base in the S may indicate the presence of a fosse. It has been defaced by livestock (Healy 1975, 16; Morris 1939, 189). Laneway located at its base to west. Curved bank west of laneway. Bank c.1m h., earthen with well-established tree line (c.3m width). Extends for c.16m. Extensive panoramic views from Lambay (E) to Howth/Dublin Mts (S) and Kildare (SW). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 31 October 2014
- DU004-071001 Ring-ditch
Description
Geophysical survey (Licence no. 13R083) was undertaken at the site by the Discovery Programme as part of the ‘Late Iron Age and “Roman” Ireland’ project. Located at the summit of the hill the enclosure (25m diam.) is defined by a circular ditch (3-4m in width) with a causewayed entrance to the east. Internal features include a possible circular structure (7.5m diam.), centrally positioned (Dowling 2015, 9). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 6 February 2015
- DU004-071002 Ring-ditch
Description
Geophysical survey (Licence no. 13R083) was undertaken at the site by the Discovery Programme as part of the ‘Late Iron Age and “Roman” Ireland’ project. Located downslope of ring ditch (DU004-071001-) this site is defined by a pennanular ring (c.5m diam.) with a single pit-type response internally (Dowling 2015, 7). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 6 February 2015
- DU004-071003 Ring-ditch
Description
Geophysical survey (Licence no. 13R083) was undertaken at the site by the Discovery Programme as part of the ‘Late Iron Age and “Roman” Ireland’ project. Located southeast of ring ditch (DU004-071002-) this site is defined by a pennanular ring (c.8m diam.) with a single pit-type response internally (Dowling 2015, 7). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 6 February 2015
- DU004-109 Quarry
Description
Historic quarry located 150m N of Mallahow House. Roughly rectangular-shaped quarry (approx. dims. 55m N-S x 40m E-W) second quarry (DU004-110----) 215m to the SE depicted on the 1837 ed. OSi six-inch map. Annotated ‘Quarry (Disused)’ on the OSi 25-inch map. Depicted as a hachured area on the last edition of the OSi six-inch map. Visible as an area of trees on the 2013-18 MapGenie orthoimage. Annotated ‘quarry’ on Rocque's 1760 map of County Dublin. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
- DU004-110 Quarry
Description
Historic quarry located 130m ESE of Mallahow House. Roughly semi-circular-shaped quarry (approx. dims. 80m N-S x 60m E-W) second quarry (DU004-109----) 215m to the NW depicted on the 1837 ed. OSi six-inch map. On the 1837 ed OSi six-inch map the crescent shaped quarry is accessed from a roadway on the S leading off the public road 45m to the S. Annotated ‘Quarry (Disused)’ on the OSi 25-inch map. Depicted as a hachured area on the last edition of the OSi six-inch map. Visible as a grove of trees on the 2013-18 MapGenie orthoimage. Annotated ‘quarry’ on Rocque's 1760 map of County Dublin. Both quarries in the townland of Mallahow are depicted at these locations on Rocque's 1760 Map of County Dublin. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mallahow.
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 Mallahow, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mallahow.
- 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 Mallahow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Mallahow · Mullach Uamha
- Area
- 2,432,255 m² (243.23 ha, 601.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Hollywood, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery West
- Electoral division
- Hollywood, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,476 people lived in 486 households in the Hollywood electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Curragh West, Damastown, Flacketstown, Grallagh, Leastown, Wyanstown
- Placenames
- Mallahow 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.