Quay
Townland in the civil parish of Portraine, barony of Nethercross, Co. Dublin; in Irish An Ché
- Area
- 26.2 ha
- 65 acres
- Land parcels
- 45
- registered freehold, median 1,202 m²
- Zoning
- G3
- HA - High Amenity
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Quay, from 31 m² to 131,042 m² (13.1 ha, 32.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 3 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 · 24 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R3RC - Rural Cluster (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 21 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4OS - Open Space (Active open space)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 1 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
14 Feb 2026Grant permission & grant retention
The development consist of: RETENTION permission for: (a) ‘commercial
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F26A/0112E
28 Nov 2024Grant permission
(a) Revisions to front/ east elevation including revised fenestration,
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/1064E
30 May 2024Grant permission
The proposed development consists of the following: The construction o
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0153
31 May 2021Grant permission
Single-storey extension to the existing west elevation,
Permission · Fingal County Council, F21B/0212
28 Jan 2020Withdraw application
Permission for 1. Widened vehicular entrance to accommodate a two-way
Permission · Fingal County Council, F20A/0033
16 Dec 2019Grant permission
Permission for development that will consist of (a) a new two-storey d
Permission · Fingal County Council, F19A/0422
22 Dec 2017Grant permission
the amalgamation of 3 & 4 Coast Guard House into 1 no. two-storey, 5-b
Permission · Fingal County Council, F17A/0775
18 Nov 2013Grant permission
Alterations to the existing house: To East: Removal of three existing
Permission · Fingal County Council, F13B/0187
18 Sept 2012Grant permission
Alterations to previously approved F10A/0394, alterations to existing
Permission · Fingal County Council, F12A/0292
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Rogerstown Estuary SAC 000208
- Special Protection Area: Rogerstown Estuary SPA 004015
- Special Protection Area: North-West Irish Sea cSPA 004236
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Portraine Shore 001215
Recorded monuments
- DU008-032 Burial
Description
In 1942 burnt human bones in a beach deposit were discovered at Portraine. This deposit comprised charcoal and ash interpreted as the remains of a funeral pyre (Mitchell, G. F.1945, 112). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- DU012-010 Martello tower
Description
Portaine Martello Tower No. 7 (Kerrigan 1995, 174). According to Kerrigan (1995, 168) construction of the Dublin area Martello Towers and their batteries commenced in 1804 under the supervision of Colonel Benjamin Fisher of the Royal Engineers and by December 1805 all towers were armed and complete. Kerrigan (ibid.) recorded that; 'Twelve towers were constructed north of Dublin: each tower mounted one 24-pounder, apart from the tower on Ireland's Eye with two 24-pounders. No batteries were constructed with these towers'. Situated on the cliff edge E of Portraine above the slipway. After the end of the Napoleonic Wars , the tower was occupied by an invalid Gunner and in 1826 the tower was owned by the Coast Guard (Bolton et al. 2012, 167). It was retained by the War Department into the 20th century. It has been converted into a residence with a conservatory attached to the ground floor. Machicolation is in place above the entrance in the W. A chimney has been inserted (Kerrigan 1995, 175). See attached plan of Portraine Martello Tower No. 7 courtesy of the Irish Military Archives - Archival Reference Code: IE/MA/MPD/ad134121-006 Photo ©Maj Adev https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Irl_Portrane_Martello_tower.jpg DU012-010----_03 Patrick Healy Collection, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/1381, © South Dublin Libraries, Local Studies Collection, County Library, Town Centre, Tallaght, Dublin 24 See attached Taylor's 1816 Map showing the location of the Martello Tower. Taylor, J. 1816 Taylor's map of the environs of Dublin: extending 10 to 14 miles from the castle, by actual survey, on a scale of 2 inches to one mile. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 24 January 2023
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Quay.
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 high, moderately low, 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 Quay.
- 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 Quay with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Quay · An Ché
- Area
- 261,517 m² (26.15 ha, 64.62 acres)
- Civil parish
- Portraine, and its townlands
- Barony
- Nethercross
- Electoral division
- Donabate, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Donabate electoral division: 11,783 people in 3,900 households; 79% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Burrow, Portraine Demesne
- Placenames
- Quay 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.