Pluckhimin
Pluckhimin is a townland in the civil parish of Garristown, barony of Balrothery West, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is Pluckhimin.
- Area
- 53.6 ha
- 133 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 6,495 m² (0.65 ha, 1.6 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- HA - High Amenity
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pluckhimin, from 179 m² to 135,631 m² (13.56 ha, 33.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as 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 · 15 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 4 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
25 Apr 2025Grant permission
The development will consist of single storey granny flat extension to
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0357E
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 Pluckhimin.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Pluckhimin.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Pluckhimin.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Pluckhimin, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Pluckhimin.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Pluckhimin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Pluckhimin · Pluckhimin
- Area
- 536,483 m² (53.65 ha, 132.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Garristown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery West
- Electoral division
- Garristown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,801 people lived in 529 households in the Garristown electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ashpark (Co. Meath), Commons Upper, Garristown, Glebe West, Newhaggard, Newtown, Pluckhimin or Ballymuck (Co. Meath)
- Placenames
- Pluckhimin 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.