# Murragh, Co. Dublin: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Westpalstown, barony of Balrothery West, Co. Dublin; in Irish Murbhach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,331,498 m² (133.15 ha, 329.02 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 73 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P1 RU - Rural, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Westpalstown, https://everytownland.com/dublin/parish/westpalstown.md - Barony: Balrothery West - Electoral division: Ballyboghil, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,629 people lived in 473 households in the Ballyboghil electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 5% 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/16751 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 260663 - Centre: latitude 53.525255, longitude -6.28625 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Murragh, from 32 m² to 410,562 m² (41.06 ha, 101.45 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2533972: 410,562 m² (41.06 ha, 101.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2533972.md - Parcel 1904195: 391,160 m² (39.12 ha, 96.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1904195.md - Parcel 1806838: 389,635 m² (38.96 ha, 96.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1806838.md - Parcel 1806840: 94,981 m² (9.5 ha, 23.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1806840.md - Parcel 1904193: 23,291 m² (2.33 ha, 5.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1904193.md - Parcel 1904194: 5,654 m² (0.57 ha, 1.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1904194.md - Parcel 1806839: 4,946 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1806839.md - Parcel 1904192: 4,219 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1904192.md - Parcel 1904197: 3,941 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1904197.md - Parcel 1904196: 1,174 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1904196.md - Parcel 1904198: 983 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1904198.md - Parcel 1806837: 114 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1806837.md - Parcel 3256258: 73 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3256258.md - Parcel 4901096: 73 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4901096.md - Parcel 4901162: 71 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4901162.md - Parcel 4901159: 70 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4901159.md - Parcel 3004287: 69 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3004287.md - Parcel 4106309: 69 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4106309.md - Parcel 3256239: 69 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3256239.md - Parcel 2994972: 69 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2994972.md - Parcel 2997293: 68 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2997293.md - Parcel 4901130: 68 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4901130.md - Parcel 4901133: 67 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4901133.md - Parcel 4901128: 36 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4901128.md - Parcel 4901125: 32 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4901125.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P1 RU - Rural (Agriculture): The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal; 45 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. - 25 Mar 2026, Fingal County Council F26A/0240E: Refuse permission. Permission. The development will consist of a two storey dwelling with single stor. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 27 Feb 2026, Fingal County Council F26A/0142E: Grant permission. Permission. Uisce Eireann intend to apply for planning permission for development. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 9 Jan 2026, Fingal County Council F26A/0005E: Invalid application due to site notice. Permission. Uisce Eireann intend to apply for planning permission for development. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 19 Dec 2025, Fingal County Council F25A/1198E: Invalid application. Permission. Uisce Eireann intend to apply for planning permission for development. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 15 Dec 2021, Fingal County Council F21A/0448: Grant permission. Permission. Permission to demolish end of life, lifestock building and underfloor. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 15 Dec 2016, Fingal County Council F16A/0574: Grant permission. Permission. 4 No. polytunnels for horticultural use and associated ancillary site. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 20 May 2014, Fingal County Council F08A/1311/E1: Grant extension of duration of perm.. Extension of duration of permission. The development will consist of extensions and alterations to the exis. 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 Murragh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DU007-066: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU007-066----. A circular enclosure visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph together with other features that could indicate an associated field system (DU007-067----) (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Located at high point of low east-west ridge north of the river. No visible remains at ground level. Compiled by: David O’Connor Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 3 December 2014 - DU007-067: Field system, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU007-067----. A field system visible as a crop mark on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 possibly associated with circular enclosure DU007-066---- (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Located at high point of low east-west ridge north of the river. No visible remains at ground level. See attached Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 Compiled by: David O’Connor Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 3 December 2014 - DU007-068: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU007-068----. A circular enclosure visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Located on relatively high ground south of river which slopes down northwards. No visible remains at ground level. Compiled by: David O’Connor Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 3 December 2014 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) - Murragh House, house, 1870–1910, Regional interest, registry number 11321009, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=FI®no=11321009. Detached three-bay two-storey house, c.1890. Projecting left-bay with bay window to ground floor and central projecting entrance porch. Glazed corridor linking house and single-storey extension to rear, c.1955.ROOF: L-shaped plan hipped; sprocketed; slate; terracotta ridge tiles; cast-iron rainwater goods; bracketed overhanging eaves; rendered chimney stacks. WALLS: Nap rendered; flat band string course; nap rendered plinth course; rough cast render to left side and rear elevations. OPENINGS: Square headed; rendered reveals; granite cills; continuous cills to bay windows; original single pane timber sashes; timber casement to rear; square headed door opening to porch; doorcase and door, c.1990. ## 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 Murragh, 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 Murragh. - 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/murragh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/dublin/murragh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/dublin/murragh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Murragh 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) - Ballyboghil: https://everytownland.com/dublin/ballyboghil.md - Barnanstown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/barnanstown.md - Calliaghstown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/calliaghstown.md - Drishoge: https://everytownland.com/dublin/drishoge-260348.md - Grange: https://everytownland.com/dublin/grange-260440.md - Newtown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/newtown-260687.md - Westpalstown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/westpalstown.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/murragh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/dublin/murragh