# Matt, Co. Dublin: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Balscaddan, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin; in Irish Mata. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 671,451 m² (67.15 ha, 165.92 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,023 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P1 RU - Rural, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Balscaddan, https://everytownland.com/dublin/parish/balscaddan.md - Barony: Balrothery East - Electoral division: Balscadden, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Dublin, https://everytownland.com/dublin.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16764 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 260621 - Centre: latitude 53.592341, longitude -6.219836 (WGS 84) ## 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); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1770053: 79,139 m² (7.91 ha, 19.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770053.md - Parcel 1770058: 70,702 m² (7.07 ha, 17.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770058.md - Parcel 1770048: 62,097 m² (6.21 ha, 15.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770048.md - Parcel 1917149: 58,714 m² (5.87 ha, 14.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1917149.md - Parcel 1770056: 57,005 m² (5.7 ha, 14.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770056.md - Parcel 1835054: 53,513 m² (5.35 ha, 13.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1835054.md - Parcel 5270677: 48,272 m² (4.83 ha, 11.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5270677.md - Parcel 1770051: 47,514 m² (4.75 ha, 11.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770051.md - Parcel 1835049: 37,292 m² (3.73 ha, 9.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1835049.md - Parcel 1835053: 36,459 m² (3.65 ha, 9.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1835053.md - Parcel 1835047: 23,752 m² (2.38 ha, 5.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1835047.md - Parcel 1835048: 23,350 m² (2.33 ha, 5.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1835048.md - Parcel 1770054: 22,169 m² (2.22 ha, 5.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770054.md - Parcel 1835050: 7,791 m² (0.78 ha, 1.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1835050.md - Parcel 1770057: 4,463 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770057.md - Parcel 1770050: 4,055 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770050.md - Parcel 1835057: 4,023 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1835057.md - Parcel 1835056: 3,693 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1835056.md - Parcel 1835041: 3,452 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1835041.md - Parcel 1835046: 3,192 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1835046.md - Parcel 1835043: 2,344 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1835043.md - Parcel 1770049: 2,295 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770049.md - Parcel 1835051: 2,109 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1835051.md - Parcel 1835052: 2,086 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1835052.md - Parcel 1835044: 1,877 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1835044.md - Parcel 1835042: 1,872 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1835042.md - Parcel 5196930: 1,835 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5196930.md - Parcel 1835055: 1,642 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1835055.md - Parcel 1770055: 1,625 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770055.md - Parcel 1770052: 1,314 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770052.md - Parcel 1835045: 1,261 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1835045.md - Parcel 5110708: 403 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5110708.md - Parcel 1770047: 132 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1770047.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P1 RU - Rural (Agriculture): The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal; 33 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.fingal.ie/development-plan - R3 RC - Rural Cluster (Residential, mixed residential and other uses): The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal; 6 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.fingal.ie/development-plan - C2.1 GE - General Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment): The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal; 6 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.fingal.ie/development-plan - G4 OS - Open Space (Active open space): The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal; 4 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) 7 applications, newest first. - 22 May 2026, Fingal County Council F26A/0428E: Withdraw application. Permission. Planning Permission to construct light industrial workshop, with staff. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 12 Dec 2024, Fingal County Council F24A/1121: Refuse permission. Permission. Permission to construct light industrial workshop, with staff faciliti. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 7 Nov 2024, Fingal County Council F24A/0983: Invalid application due to site notice. Permission. Planning permission to construct light industrial workshop, with staff. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 4 Nov 2019, Fingal County Council F19B/0182: Grant permission. Permission. The construction of a single storey extension tot he rear of the exist. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 17 Aug 2018, Fingal County Council F18B/0230: Grant permission. Permission. The construction of a single storey extension with a non-habitable mez. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 26 Jan 2017, Fingal County Council F16A/0369: Grant permission. Permission. The application is for a ten year permission. The development will co. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 3 Feb 2012, Fingal County Council F11A/0084: Grant permission. Permission. New single storey extension to the eastern side of existing dwellingho. 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 Matt. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DU004-014: Fulacht fia, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU004-014----. 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 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 Matt. ## 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 Matt, 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 Matt. - 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/matt.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/dublin/matt.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/dublin/matt.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/dublin.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Dermotstown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/dermotstown.md - Folkstown Little: https://everytownland.com/dublin/folkstown-little.md - Inch: https://everytownland.com/dublin/inch.md - Newtown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/newtown-260683.md - Ring: https://everytownland.com/dublin/ring.md - Stephenstown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/stephenstown.md - Turkinstown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/turkinstown.md - Whitestown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/whitestown-260926.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/matt - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/dublin/matt