Murphystown

More than 2,000 parcels touch this townland: too many to draw here.

• R2Objective A (Existing residential)
  COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Objective F (Open space, park)
  COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown The zoning objective in the plan
• C4Objective LIW (Warehouse (excluding retail warehouse))
  COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown The zoning objective in the plan
• M3Objective NC (District, neighbourhood centre)
  COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Objective SNI (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown The zoning objective in the plan
• C3Objective OE (Office, business/technology park and related)
  COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown The zoning objective in the plan
• M5Objective MOC (Other mix of uses)
  COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown The zoning objective in the plan
• R3Objective A2 (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
  COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown The zoning objective in the plan
• M5Objective MIC (Other mix of uses)
  COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 14 Aug 2026Assessment period

  The development will consist of the following principal elements:1) construction

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0611/WEB

• 12 Aug 2026Declare application invalid

  The development will consist of the following principal elements:1) construction

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0601/WEB

• 30 Jun 2026Grant permission

  Application for both Planning Permission and Retention Permission. The applicati

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26B/0381/WEB

• 9 Jun 2026Grant permission

  Conversion of existing attic space comprising of modification of existing roof

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26B/0335/WEB

• 22 May 2026Registered application

  73 mobility hub sites across the Council's administrative area

  Part vlll (public consultation) · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, PC/IC/01/26

• 10 Apr 2026Grant permission

  Permission is sought for Conversion of the attic space with three dormer windows

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26B/0215/WEB

• 10 Apr 2026Request additional information

  The development will principally consist of: the construction of a residential

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0283/WEB

• 6 Apr 2026Declare application invalid

  Permission is sought for Conversion of the attic space with three dormer windows

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26B/0208/WEB

• 26 Mar 2026Grant permission

  The Proposed Development consists of the development of wastewater network upgr

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0234/WEB

• 16 Mar 2026Grant permission

  Attic conversion for storage use incorporating three rooflights to the front roo

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26B/0148/WEB

• 13 Mar 2026Grant permission

  Single Storey Extension with pitched lean-to roof to side and rear comprising of

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26B/0140

• 11 Mar 2026Grant permission

  The proposed development comprises the change of use of the existing 1 No. 3 sto

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0192/WEB

• 11 Mar 2026Grant permission for retention

  Retention Permission sought for: i) Replacement of nineteen x 1.5 metre high gar

  Permission for retention · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0193/WEB

• 6 Mar 2026Declare application invalid

  The development will consist of a single storey extension with pitched lean-to r

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26B/0125

• 5 Mar 2026Grant permission

  Attic conversion for storage, including three dormer windows to the front roof s

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26B/0119/WEB

• 19 Feb 2026Refuse permission

  The development will consist of : construction of a residential building for Ass

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0112/WEB

• 13 Feb 2026Grant permission

  Conversion of existing attic space comprising of modification of existing roof

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26B/0089/WEB

• 6 Feb 2026Grant permission

  Change of use of 75.5 sqm at ground floor from office use to Medical/Health serv

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0072/WEB

• 30 Jan 2026Grant permission

  Permission is sought for the building up of the side gable wall at roof level,

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26B/0053/WEB

• 29 Jan 2026Declare application invalid

  Change of use of 75.5 sqm at ground floor from office use to Medical/Health serv

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0046/WEB

• 14 Jan 2026Grant permission for retention

  Beacon Hospital Sandyford Limited intend to apply for temporary permission for r

  Permission for retention · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D26A/0015/WEB

• 22 Dec 2025S5 dec exempt

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE - The repair and replacement of existing rainwater goods

  Section 5 · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, REF20325

• 19 Dec 2025Grant permission

  Conversion of the existing attic space with new dormer roof space to rear and ro

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25B/0725/WEB

• 18 Dec 2025Grant permission

  Retention permission for a new open aluminium glazed canopy structure at ground

  Permission for retention · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25B/0713/WEB

• 17 Dec 2025Declare application invalid

  Permission is sought for: Conversion of the existing attic space with new dormer

  Permission · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, D25B/0707/WEB

The 25 most recent of 98 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Murphystown.

Recorded monuments

• DU022-109 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Topsoil stripping on the South-Eastern Motorway uncovered a fulacht fiadh. This appeared as a discontinuous spread of dark soil (L 18m, Wth 15m). It covered an oval pit (L2m, D 0.7m) filled with burnt material. Four pieces of flint were found in the pit (Breen 2004, 177).

• DU023-025 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Located to the E of Murphystown Road and Mount Eagle Lawn in the landscaped grounds of Glencairn. A fragment of a probable tower house inside the entrance gate of the British Embassy. The tower house comprises of portions of two walls built of granite masonry (Wall Wth 1.1m). Traces of a vault over the original ground floor are visible. (ITA Survey, 1945; Mc Dix 1897, 199). Formerly, the lands on which the castle is located were the W boundary of the demesne lands of Kill of the Grange and were held successively by the Howels, the Cruises and subsequently Christchurch Cathedral (Anon 1900, 191). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 25 June 2018

• DU023-061 Fulacht fia
  Description

  A fulacht fia identified during pre-development topsoil stripping under licence 02E0330. A spread of black charcoal-rich soil measuring 12m by 10m beside an ornamental pond of 18th or 19th century date. When this was cleaned back, it proved to be the higher, central part of a more extensive spread; the lower part had been covered with clay containing pottery and glass of recent date. A wall footing was later dug into this, forming three sides of a rectangle, measuring 7m by 4.5m. The spread of the fulacht fia consisted of a number of distinct layers and lenses and overlay four shallow depressions, which may have been artificial, and one approximately rectangular pit, measuring 2.56m by 1.2m by 0.8m deep. (Breen 2004, 177). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 6 July 2018

• DU023-065 Burial ground
  Description

  A burial ground excavated under licence 02E0153. The site comprised part of the valley of a stream, which had been straightened in the 19th and 20th centuries, with the surroundings landscaped as ornamental grounds. Three pits containing burnt clay, charcoal and fragments of burnt animal bone. The most complete pit was approximately circular, 1.15m in diameter and 0.24m deep. At the top of this pit was an incomplete human skeleton. Only the skull, upper arms and upper thorax were present. It lay on top of the pit fill but was entirely within the circumference of the pit and appeared to be associated with it. A possible hill-wash deposit was excavated near the base of the slope of the valley side. It consisted of grey silty soil containing some charcoal and pieces of waste flint. On a flat area above the slope, was an inhumation cemetery. Seven wholly or partly intact skeletons were found, along with thirteen isolated bones or groups of bone. The burials were extended inhumations without grave-goods, oriented E–W, with the heads toward the W. One, however, was oriented NE/SW. A dark spread at the base of the slope, measured 14m by 10m and consisted of layers of grey/black, charcoal-rich soil and some decayed granite. It resembled a fulacht fiadh deposit, but no pits or troughs were found underneath or nearby. Two parallel gullies or drains were found near this. One was 7.5m long, 0.75–1.1m wide and 0.7m deep. It ran along the N side of the second gully, with only a narrow strip of 0.05m separating them. The second gully was 10m long, 0.9m wide and 0.5m deep. They were both filled with dark grey/black, charcoal-rich, sandy soil mixed with charcoal and decayed stones. A stone-filled drain at the top of the slope. It was 12.87m long, c. 0.6m wide and 0.1–0.14m deep. The finds included the base of a glass bottle and two sherds of white china, suggesting a recent date. Nearby was a shallow depression, approximately oval and measuring 1.84m by 1.12m, with charcoal present in the fill. A double pit at the top of the slope and had a figure-of-eight plan. It was 2.24m long and oriented approximately N–S. The E half was 1.12m in diameter and 0.25m deep. The W half was 0.84m in diameter and 0.1m deep. The fill comprised burnt red clay and black, charcoal-rich, silty soil containing some fragments of burnt animal bone. A patch of grey silty soil with charcoal was found 7m farther E, also on top of the slope, but on excavation it was found to overlie a modern stone drain. A strip of dark, charcoal-rich soil with decayed granite, running along the south bank of the stream. It was up to 0.3m deep and overlay the natural subsoil. To the south it was cut by a French drain in which a sherd of modern china was found. On the slope and contained four dark patches of charcoal. Two of these represented circular pits, 1.5m and 0.92m in diameter. The other two were natural hollows. All four contained soil with charcoal fragments. There was no trace of in situ burning, and no finds were recovered. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 6 July 2018

Architectural heritage

• Glencairn, country house, 1855–1865 · National interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay (three-bay deep) two-storey country house, designed 1859; built 1859-61; occupied 1861, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay two-storey gabled advanced (east) or projecting (west) end bays. Occupied, 1901. Sold, 1904. "Improved", 1904-5, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1953, to accommodate alternative use. Set in landscaped grounds.

• Glencairn, conservatory, 1855–1908 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay (six-bay deep) single-storey glasshouse, extant 1908, on a rectangular plan. Curvilinear hipped glazed roof in timber frame on paired wrought iron-detailed cast-iron pillars with finial-topped lantern to apex, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings centred on square-headed door opening with shallow sill course, and chamfered timber mullions framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on glazed timber panelled double doors. Set in landscaped grounds shared with Glencairn.

• Glencairn, walled garden, 1855–1908 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden, extant 1908, on a rectangular plan with part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble granite boundary wall to perimeter having rubble granite rounded coping. Set in landscaped grounds shared with Glencairn.

• Glencairn, gate lodge, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay (two-bay deep) single-storey gate lodge, extant 1908, on a square plan. Pyramidal slate roof extending into lean-to slate roof on paired chamfered pillars on cut-granite plinths, clay ridge tiles with granite ashlar chimney stack to apex on a cruciform plan having red brick chevron- or saw tooth-detailed corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pot, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters. Snecked granite walls. Square-headed central door opening with tiled step threshold, and lintel framing replacement glazed uPVC panelled door having overlight. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite chamfered sill course, and lintels framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing timber casement windows having horizontal glazing bars. Set back from line of road at entrance to grounds of Glencairn.

• Glencairn, gates/railings/walls, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, extant 1908, on a symmetrical plan. Snecked granite wall on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on granite ashlar plinth with cut-granite coping to crow stepped parapet on cut-granite "Cavetto" kneelers. Elliptical-headed central opening, cut-granite block-and-start surround having chamfered rebated reveals with hood moulding on foliate label stops framing wrought iron double gates. Shouldered square-headed flanking openings with cut-granite block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing wrought iron gates. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Glencairn.

• Lisieux Hall, house, 1844–1866 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey house, extant 1866, on a H-shaped plan originally six-bay single-storey over part raised basement with single-bay two-storey pedimented advanced end bays centred on (single-storey) prostyle pentastyle portico to ground floor; two-bay two-storey side elevations. Occupied, 1911. Pitched slate roof on a H-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks on axis with ridge centred on rendered chimney stack on moulded cushion course on rendered base having dentilated "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornice capping supporting terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on dentilated "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornice retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered channelled walls (ground floor); rendered, ruled and lined surface finish (first floor) on chamfered cushion course with rusticated quoins to corners supporting dentilated "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed open bed pediments. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (ground floor) with cut-granite sills, timber mullions, and channelled voussoirs framing four-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (first floor) with cut-granite sills, timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement (end bays) with cut-granite sills, timber mullions, and rendered surrounds with pilasters supporting segmental pediments on consoles framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds.

• Milestone/milepost, 1844–1909 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding inscribed cut-granite milestone, extant 1909. Road fronted on concrete footpath.

• Violet Hill, house, 1844–1801 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey medical officer's house, occupied 1901, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay two-storey breakfront; two-bay two-storey side elevations with three-bay two-storey rear (north) elevation. Hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan centred on hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks on axis with ridge having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on box eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed central door opening approached by two cut-granite steps with cut-granite step threshold, and moulded surround framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and moulded surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and moulded surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed central door opening to rear (north) elevation with concealed dressings framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having finial-topped pyramidal capping supporting replacement mild steel double gates.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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_3260 (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.

No address of the register names Murphystown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Murphystown · Baile Uí Mhurchú

Area

1,640,335 m² (164.03 ha, 405.34 acres)

Civil parish

Tully, and its townlands

Barony

Rathdown

Electoral division

Glencullen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glencullen electoral division: 23,596 people in 7,893 households; 66% of households own their home; 58% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balally, Ballyogan, Blackthorn, Carmanhall, Carmanhall and Leopardstown, Carrickmines Little, Kilgobbin, Woodside

Placenames

Murphystown 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.