# Orlagh, Co. Dublin: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Cruagh, barony of Uppercross, Co. Dublin; in Irish Orlach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 174,723 m² (17.47 ha, 43.17 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in it, median 174,723 m² (17.47 ha, 43.17 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P1 RU, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Cruagh, https://everytownland.com/dublin/parish/cruagh.md - Barony: Uppercross - Electoral division: Bohernabreena, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 5,672 people lived in 1,740 households in the Bohernabreena electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 4% 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/17486 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 260711 - Centre: latitude 53.262074, longitude -6.328411 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Orlagh, from 174,723 m² (17.47 ha, 43.17 acres) to 174,723 m² (17.47 ha, 43.17 acres); 4 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5412905: 174,723 m² (17.47 ha, 43.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5412905.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P1 RU (Agriculture): South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin; 3 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.sdcc.ie/en/devplan2022/adopted-plan/ - G3 HA-DM (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.sdcc.ie/en/devplan2022/adopted-plan/ ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 1 Oct 2019, South Dublin County Council SD19A/0059: Grant permission for retention. Retention. Retention for change of use of the site from religious instruction and the recreational activities of a religious body to the use of Orlagh House (Protected Structure ref. 374) as a wedding venue and corporate event space/destination with ancillary accommodation facilities.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/55931 - 16 May 2012, South Dublin County Council SD12A/0089: Refuse permission. Permission, 1 home. Construction of a single storey , 3 bedroomed house of area 200sq.m. approx. with grass roof; ancillary development will include a new well, a surface water soakway and a waste water treatment system, all on a site of approx.12 hectares (30 acres). Access to the house will be by way of a new internal access road connected to the existing access road with an existing entrance on to Kilakee Road.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/43914 - 30 Mar 2006, South Dublin County Council SD05A/0853: Refuse permission. Permission, 1 home. Split level, two storey / single storey dwelling, attached double garage, enviropak effluent treatment system, percolation area, landscaping and all associated site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/27012 - 9 Apr 2003, South Dublin County Council SD03A/0203: Refuse permission. Permission. 61 metre high guyed radio transmitter mast together with transmitter house and protection fencing.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/20252 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 Orlagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Orlagh. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Orlagh House, country house, 1785–1795, Regional interest, registry number 11220008, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=SC®no=11220008. Detached five-bay three-storey over basement former country house, c.1790, now in use as a retreat centre and Augustinian novitiate. Five-bay two-storey wing to each side, double staircase to projecting entrance porch, and two-storey extension to rere, all added c.1875. Smooth rendered walls. uPVC casement windows throughout. Full-height ground floor windows with architrave surrounds to wings. Pitched slate roof with central hexagonal bellcote and gable end chimney stacks. Hipped slate roofs to wings. Pair of two-storey flat-roofed accommodation blocks projecting from rere. Simple geometrical tubular gate and rendered screen walls to road. ## 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 Orlagh, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3154, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3154.zip (ZIP). - 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/orlagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/dublin/orlagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/dublin/orlagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Orlagh 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) - Mountpelier: https://everytownland.com/dublin/mountpelier.md - Oldcourt: https://everytownland.com/dublin/oldcourt.md - Woodtown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/woodtown.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/orlagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/dublin/orlagh