Matt
Matt is a townland in the civil parish of Balscaddan, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is Mata.
- Area
- 67.1 ha
- 166 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 4,023 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- RU - Rural
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Matt, from 132 m² to 79,139 m² (7.91 ha, 19.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 · 33 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R3RC - Rural Cluster (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1GE - General Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4OS - Open Space (Active open space)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 4 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
22 May 2026Withdraw application
Planning Permission to construct light industrial workshop, with staff
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0428E
12 Dec 2024Refuse permission
Permission to construct light industrial workshop, with staff faciliti
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/1121
7 Nov 2024Invalid application due to site notice
Planning permission to construct light industrial workshop, with staff
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0983
4 Nov 2019Grant permission
The construction of a single storey extension tot he rear of the exist
Permission · Fingal County Council, F19B/0182
17 Aug 2018Grant permission
The construction of a single storey extension with a non-habitable mez
Permission · Fingal County Council, F18B/0230
26 Jan 2017Grant permission
The application is for a ten year permission. The development will co
Permission · Fingal County Council, F16A/0369
3 Feb 2012Grant permission
New single storey extension to the eastern side of existing dwellingho
Permission · Fingal County Council, F11A/0084
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 Matt.
Recorded monuments
- DU004-014 Fulacht fia
Description
Situated in low-lying pastureland. Investigations for the North-Eastern Gas Pipeline, Phase 2, 1988, revealed a spread of charcoal-flecked soil containing fire-reddened stone (L 2.4m; Wth.2.4m; D 0.5m; Gowen 1989, 23). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Matt.
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 Matt, 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 Matt.
- 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 Matt with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Matt · Mata
- Area
- 671,451 m² (67.15 ha, 165.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- Balscaddan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery East
- Electoral division
- Balscadden, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 743 people lived in 229 households in the Balscadden electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Dermotstown, Folkstown Little, Inch, Newtown, Ring, Stephenstown, Turkinstown, Whitestown
- Placenames
- Matt 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.