Monkstown Castlefarm
Townland in the civil parish of Monkstown, barony of Rathdown, Co. Dublin; in Irish Feirm an Chaisleáin
- Area
- 14.5 ha
- 36 acres
- Land parcels
- 57
- registered freehold, median 494 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Objective A
- Planning
- 100
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monkstown Castlefarm, from 13 m² to 3,300 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 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
- R2Objective A (Existing residential)
COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown · 61 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Objective F (Open space, park)
COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Objective SNI (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M3Objective NC (District, neighbourhood centre)
COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown · 0 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
7 Sept 2026Referral
The development will consist of the partial demolition of the existing side gar
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0671/WEB
26 Aug 2026Declare application invalid
The development will consist of the partial demolition of the existing side gar
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0637/WEB
16 Aug 2026Declare application invalid
The development will consist of the partial demolition of the existing side gar
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0613/WEB
30 Apr 2026Grant permission
The development consists of a single-storey rear extension, a two-storey extens
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0325/WEB
16 Feb 2026Grant permission
Full planning permission for the following to the existing single storey fully s
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26B/0092/WEB
16 Dec 2025Grant permission
1. Removal of the existing 1-storey converted Garage structure and front Porch,
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25B/0705/WEB
23 Oct 2025Grant permission
Planning permission is sought for (i) The removal of the existing single-storey
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25B/0600/WEB
17 Oct 2025Grant permission for retention
The development consists of: (1) The retention of a single storey front extensio
Permission for retention · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25B/0586/WEB
6 Jun 2025S5 dec not exempt
To increase the boundary height from 1.5 to 2.1 by attaching a post and fence sy
Section 5 · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, REF10525
29 Apr 2025Refuse permission
Duncan Lyster and Bevin Cody intend to apply for Planning Permission at Cloudes
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25A/0342/WEB
28 Apr 2025Grant cert of exemption (<=4 unit)
1 dwelling
Certificate of exemption - part v · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, V/033/25
18 Apr 2025Grant permission
The works will consist of a rear ground floor extension comprising kitchen, dini
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25A/0320/WEB
1 Apr 2025Declare application invalid
Duncan Lyster and Bevin Cody intend to apply for Planning Permission at Cloudes
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25A/0257/WEB
28 Feb 2025Grant permission
Development comprising of amendments to the permitted childcare development unde
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25A/0158/WEB
19 Feb 2025Grant permission
Conversion of existing single storey garage to North elevation into habitable s
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25B/0085/WEB
18 Feb 2025Grant permission
Construction of a detached two-storey, three-bedroom house with the provision o
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25A/0124/WEB
12 Feb 2025Declare application invalid
Construction of a detached two-storey, three-bedroom house with the provision o
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25A/0107/WEB
23 Aug 2024Grant permission
The development will consist of the following principal elements: 1) An attic co
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D24A/0658/WEB
10 Aug 2024Grant permission
The proposed works will include demolition of the existing garage, garden store
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D24B/0360/WEB
21 Jun 2024Grant permission
Permission for the demolition of single storey structure attached
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D24A/0445
12 Jun 2024Grant permission
The proposed development will consist of: 1. Demolition of existing single store
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D24B/0272/WEB
7 Jun 2024Declare application invalid
1. Demolition of existing single storey flat roof garage and shed to the rear an
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D24B/0267/WEB
18 Jan 2024Grant permission
Extension and alteration works comprising of a single storey hipped roof
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D24B/0012
13 Oct 2023Grant permission
Removal of existing side garage/extension and front bay/roof, removal of chimney
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D23A/0652
4 Sept 2023Grant permission
Permission is sought for the conversion of the existing
Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D23B/0416
The 25 most recent of over 100 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 Monkstown Castlefarm.
Recorded monuments
- DU023-014001 Castle - tower house
Description
Situated to the SE of the junction of Monkstown Avenue and Mounttown Road Upper the site is located in grassland on the road edge. The tower house is in the SW corner of the bawn wall and projects beyond it towards the road edge. It is three storeys in height with a parapet level containing two upper battlements. In the NE corner of the N wall in an inserted doorway. The doorway opens onto a spiral stairs, under the stairs is an arched recess with shows signs of wicker-centring. The original entrance in the E wall is blocked but has a semi-elliptical head. The ground floor (Dims. L8.7m; Wth 5.1m) is lit by a slit ope in the N wall. First floor is entered through a lintelled granite doorway with dressed limestone jambs. This door is rebated with bar holes present. Interiors of first and second floors are lit by slit opes. Corbels project from the E wall on the second floor. The parapet level contains two caphouses, stepped crenellations and a wall-walk. There is a dripstone and guttering present. W section of tower lies beyond the bawn wall and is not tied into it. In the NE corner of the tower house there are chamfered limestone jambs from another building re-used as quoins (Healy 1975, 1-19; Turner 1983, 82; Harbison 1970, 79). The tower house was associated with the Cistercian grange of St Mary's Abbey. After the dissolution in the sixteenth century the lands at Monkstown were given to Sir John Travers, Master of the Ordnance of Ireland. Walter Cheevers had it in 1641, then Ludlow Cromwell, Master of the House, who is said to have repaired the castle and laid out the gardens (Ball 1902, I, 1-12). A drawing by Beranger dated 1766 shows two towers placed either end of a courtyard flanked by a multi-chimneyed mansion on the one side and a show wall on the other (Harbison 1998, 60-1). The tower house (DU023-014001-) belongs to a complex which includes a gatehouse (DU023-014002-) connected by a bawn wall (DU023-014003-), all built of coursed granite blocks. This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 189/1951). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 22 May 2018
- DU023-014002 Gatehouse
Description
Situated to the SE of the junction of Monkstown Avenue and Mounttown Road Upper the site is located in grassland on the road edge. The gate-house is in the NW corner of the bawn wall (DU023-014003-) enclosure. It has a base batter. The masonry of the bawn wall on the N side of the gate-house displays a series of building phases. It has aroundexternal arch and a pointedinternal arch with wicker centred vault . There is one chamber with a parapet level above it. This chamber is lit by a single light, cusped, ogee-headed, window in the S and a plain loop in the W wall. A lintelled doorway below a pointed arch survives in the NW corner and this provided access to the upper battlements with a projecting turret in the NW angle. There are stepped crenellations. An entrance off the passageway leads into what survives of an E wing. This was lit by rectangular opes. There are some brick-faced insertions. External stairs are present in the SE corner. The site was associated with the Cistercian grange of St Mary's Abbey. After the dissolution in the sixteenth century the lands at Monkstown were given to Sir John Travers, Master of the Ordnance of Ireland. Walter Cheevers had it in 1641, then Ludlow Cromwell, Master of the House, who is said to have repaired the castle and laid out the gardens (Ball 1906, I, 1-12). A drawing by Beranger dated 1766 shows two towers placed either end of a courtyard flanked by a multi-chimneyed mansion on the one side and a show wall on the other (Harbison 1998, 60-1). The gatehouse (DU023-014002-) belongs to a complex which includes a tower house (DU023-014001-) connected by a bawn wall (DU023-014003-), all built of coursed granite blocks. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 22 May 2018
- DU023-014003 Bawn
Description
Situated to the SE of the junction of Monkstown Avenue and Mounttown Road Upper the site is located in grassland on the road edge. A bawn wall is built of coursed granite blocks. Remaining section is L shaped (SE-NW c. 26m; SW- NE c. 17.5m). The site was associated with the Cistercian grange of St Mary's Abbey. After the dissolution in the sixteenth century the lands at Monkstown were given to Sir John Travers, Master of the Ordnance of Ireland. Walter Cheevers had it in 1641, then Ludlow Cromwell, Master of the House, who is said to have repaired the castle and laid out the gardens (Ball 1906, I, 1-12). A drawing by Beranger dated 1766 shows two towers placed either end of a courtyard flanked by a multi-chimneyed mansion on the one side and a show wall on the other (Harbison 1998, 60-1). The bawn wall (DU023-014003-) connects a tower house (DU023-014001-) and gatehouse (DU023-014002-). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 22 May 2018
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Monkstown Castlefarm.
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 20 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_3311 (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 Monkstown Castlefarm with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Monkstown Castlefarm · Feirm an Chaisleáin
- Area
- 145,019 m² (14.5 ha, 35.83 acres)
- Civil parish
- Monkstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathdown
- Electoral division
- Dun Laoghaire-Mount Town, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dun Laoghaire-Mount Town electoral division: 1,915 people in 692 households; 45% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Dunleary, Monkstown, Monkstown Housefarm, Mountashton
- Placenames
- Monkstown Castlefarm 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.