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Racecourse Common

Townland in the civil parish of Lusk, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin; in Irish Coimín an Ráschúrsa

Parcel 1820004

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163 m across. Click a parcel to see it. © Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0
Area
4,635 m² (0.46 ha, 1.15 acres)
Buildings
3 buildings touch it, 207 m² on the ground
Zoning
P1 RU - Rural (The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029) The objective
Townland
Racecourse Common

Planning applications on this parcel

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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
About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
Landslides
Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
Terrain model
No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
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.

Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.

Area
68.8 ha
170 acres
Land parcels
199
registered freehold, median 201 m²
Zoning
R2
RS - Residential
Planning
45
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

1560 m across. Click a parcel to see it. © Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

199 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Racecourse Common, from 3 m² to 95,038 m² (9.5 ha, 23.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 68 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

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

Planning applications

Sites that touch the townland, newest first

The 25 most recent of 45 applications.

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 Racecourse Common.

Recorded monuments

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Racecourse Common.

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 20 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 Racecourse Common.
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 Racecourse Common with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

The townland

Name
Racecourse Common · Coimín an Ráschúrsa
Area
688,188 m² (68.82 ha, 170.05 acres)
Civil parish
Lusk, and its townlands
Barony
Balrothery East
Electoral division
Lusk, the unit of the census
Census 2022
Lusk electoral division: 10,774 people in 3,341 households; 78% of households own their home; 62% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Balleally East, Lough Common, Lusk, Rogerstown
Placenames
Racecourse Common 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.