Mitchelstown
Townland in the civil parish of Castleknock, barony of Castleknock, Co. Dublin; in Irish Baile Mhistéil
- Area
- 62.9 ha
- 155 acres
- Land parcels
- 119
- registered freehold, median 308 m²
- Zoning
- C2.1
- GE - General Employment
- Planning
- 65
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
119 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mitchelstown, from 6 m² to 147,394 m² (14.74 ha, 36.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- C2.1GE - General Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 138 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4OS - Open Space (Active open space)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 1 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
31 Aug 2026Referral
Alterations to the development previously granted permission under Reg
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW26A/0337E
12 Dec 2025Grant permission
Full planning permission for site alterations, which comprises the ins
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW25A/0541E
26 Nov 2025Invalid application
Full planning permission for site alterations, which comprises the ins
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW25A/0506E
10 Jun 2025Grant permission
Permission is sought to amend Condition No. 3 of the planning permissi
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW25A/0245E
26 Mar 2025Grant permission
Amendment to permission granted under Reg. Ref.: FW23A/0126 for minor
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW25A/0119E
17 Feb 2025Invalid application due to site notice
Amendment to permission granted under Reg. Ref.: FW23A/0126 for minor
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW25A/0053E
10 Jan 2025Grant permission
Construction of a new light industrial/warehouse unit with associated
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW25A/0008E
18 Jul 2024Grant permission
Please see attached documents for a full description:
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW24A/0295E
5 Jul 2024Grant permission for retention
Planning permission for retention of existing alterations and proposed
Retention · Fingal County Council, FW24A/0280E
24 Jun 2024Invalid application
Please see attached documents for a full description:
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW24A/0265E
3 Jun 2024Invalid application
Please see attached documents for a full description:
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW24A/0238E
10 May 2024Invalid application
Please see attached documents for a full description:
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW24A/0195E
10 May 2024Grant permission
The proposed development will consist of the construction of 3 no. ent
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW24A/0199E
30 Apr 2024Grant permission
The application site is bound by
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW24A/0010
7 Feb 2024Grant permission
The proposed development comprises a change of use of Units 633 and 63
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW24A/0041
1 Sept 2023Grant permission for retention
Retention Permission sought to retain additional mezzanine first floor
Retention · Fingal County Council, FW23A/0258
21 Aug 2023Grant permission
The development consists of: a new first floor level within the existi
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW22A/0286
9 Aug 2023Grant permission
The application site is bound by Kilshane Avenue to the south,
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW23A/0092
27 Jul 2023Grant permission
Planning permission is sought for a development consisting of an alter
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW23A/0224
17 May 2023Grant permission
The proposed development consists of the construction of 1 no. warehou
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW23A/0014
5 May 2023Grant permission
The development will consist of:
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW23A/0126
14 Apr 2023Grant permission for retention
Retention permission is sought for the following: -Provision of solar
Retention · Fingal County Council, FW23A/0100
15 Mar 2023Grant permission
Amazon Data Services Ireland Limited (ADSIL) , intend to apply for
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW23A/0064
3 Mar 2023Grant permission
The proposed development will comprise of the following development /
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW23A/0045
20 Feb 2023Grant permission for retention
Retention permission for a single storey ESB substation building (tota
Retention · Fingal County Council, FW23A/0030
The 25 most recent of 65 applications.
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 Mitchelstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mitchelstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mitchelstown.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3116 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Mitchelstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Mitchelstown · Baile Mhistéil
- Area
- 628,581 m² (62.86 ha, 155.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castleknock, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castleknock
- Electoral division
- The Ward, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- The Ward electoral division: 13,289 people in 3,674 households; 63% of households own their home; 88% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Mitchelstown 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.