Popeshall
Townland in the civil parish of Lusk, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin; in Irish Halla Póp
- Area
- 27.4 ha
- 68 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 22,827 m² (2.28 ha, 5.64 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- HA - High Amenity
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Popeshall, from 1,768 m² to 125,369 m² (12.54 ha, 30.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 5 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
17 Feb 2021Grant permission
Permission for development consisting of the erection of a single stor
Permission · Fingal County Council, F20A/0448
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 Popeshall.
Recorded monuments
- DU005-174001 Ring-ditch
Description
Geophysical survey (Licence no. 12R010) undertaken by the Discovery Programme as part of the ‘Late Iron Age and “Roman” Ireland’ project identified archaeological activity towards the summit of a prominent hilltop. This ring ditch (15m diam.) surrounds a central pit. It was partially truncated along its northern limit by quarry activity (Dowling 2013, 9). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 2 February 2015
- DU005-174002 Ring-ditch
Description
Geophysical survey (Licence no. 12R010) undertaken by the Discovery Programme as part of the ‘Late Iron Age and “Roman” Ireland’ project identified archaeological activity towards the summit of a prominent hilltop. Located c. 10m north of another ring ditch (DU005-174001-) this monument (8m diam.) appears to have a W entrance. It is truncated to the S by quarry activity (Dowling 2013, 9). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 2 February 2015
- DU005-174003 Ring-ditch
Description
Geophysical survey (Licence no. 12R010) undertaken by the Discovery Programme as part of the ‘Late Iron Age and “Roman” Ireland’ project identified archaeological activity towards the summit of a prominent hilltop. Located east of two other ring ditches (DU005-174001-; DU005-174002-) this monument (8m diam.) is associated with what is interpreted as possible burnt material (Dowling 2013, 10). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 2 February 2015
- DU005-174004 Ring-ditch
Description
Geophysical survey (Licence no. 12R010) undertaken by the Discovery Programme as part of the ‘Late Iron Age and “Roman” Ireland’ project identified archaeological activity towards the summit of a prominent hilltop. Located 15m S of another ring ditch (DU005-174003-) this monument is defined by two concentric annular ditches measuring 6m and 11m respectively (Dowling 2013, 10). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 2 February 2015
- DU005-178 Ringfort - rath
Description
The monument is situated on a S facing slope with broad views E to the sea, very extensive views S taking in Lambay Island at the SE and restricted by local planting to the W and rising ground upslope to the N. A sub-circular area defined by a single fosse identified on digital globe aerial photography dating to the 24th of June 2018. The area defined measures approximately 42m E-W and 41m N-S. Considering the scale and location of this feature it is likely to represent a levelled ringfort, hence the classification as such. Compiled by: Margaret Keane Uploaded on: 4 January 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Popeshall.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Popeshall.
- 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 Popeshall with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Popeshall · Halla Póp
- Area
- 273,612 m² (27.36 ha, 67.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lusk, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery East
- Electoral division
- Holmpatrick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Holmpatrick electoral division: 4,147 people in 1,390 households; 92% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykea, Lane, Loughshinny, Thomastown
- Placenames
- Popeshall 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.