Palmerstown
Townland in the civil parish of Balrothery, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin; in Irish Baile Phámar
- Area
- 100.9 ha
- 249 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 1,931 m²
- Zoning
- G3
- HA - High Amenity
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Palmerstown, from 59 m² to 551,015 m² (55.1 ha, 136.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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
- G3HA - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 27 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 19 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
13 May 2026Grant permission & grant retention
The development will consist of: (1) Retention permission for alterat
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F26A/0381E
8 May 2026Invalid application
The development will consist of: (1) Retention permission for alterat
Retention · Fingal County Council, F26A/0362E
19 Dec 2025Refuse permission & grant retention
The Planning Application will consist the Permission of the new soakaw
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F25A/1207E
4 Jul 2024Grant permission
CWPA Planning and Architecture, North Street Business Park, Unit 10, S
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0599E
1 Jul 2024Withdraw application
Alterations and extensions to existing cottage (c. 35 m2 GFA) comprisi
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0584E
6 Dec 2022Grant permission
Alterations and extensions to an exisiting single storey bungalow
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0677
2 Sept 2021Grant permission
Increase in existing porch width and height, 2 storey extension to sid
Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0463
10 Jul 2020Grant permission
The construction of a detached gym and storage room to the rear of the
Permission · Fingal County Council, F20B/0156
28 May 2018Grant permission
A new replacement domestic wastewater treatment plant and all associte
Permission · Fingal County Council, F18A/0295
15 Feb 2017Grant permission for retention
Retention Planning Permission (Planning Ref. F07A/1525) of an existing
Retention · Fingal County Council, F17A/0082
20 Jun 2016Grant permission
Single storey extension to the front (south elevation) and side (east
Permission · Fingal County Council, F16B/0157
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 Palmerstown.
Recorded monuments
- DU005-113 Field system
Description
A series of visible crop marks on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 that could indicate a field system with possible enclosures (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). See attached Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 Compiled by: David O’Connor Date of upload: 6 November 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Palmerstown.
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 10 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Palmerstown.
- 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 Palmerstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Palmerstown · Baile Phámar
- Area
- 1,009,323 m² (100.93 ha, 249.41 acres)
- Civil parish
- Balrothery, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery East
- Electoral division
- Balbriggan Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Balbriggan Rural electoral division: 19,347 people in 6,127 households; 60% of households own their home; 74% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balcunnin, Collinstown, Courtlough, Heathtown, Killalane, Loughbarn, Malheney, Rathmooney, Salmon
- Placenames
- Palmerstown 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.