Rallekaystown
Townland in the civil parish of Lusk, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin; in Irish Baile Ráth Lúcáis
- Area
- 70.9 ha
- 175 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 8,325 m² (0.83 ha, 2.06 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- RU - Rural
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rallekaystown, from 11 m² to 182,029 m² (18.2 ha, 44.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 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
- P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 51 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R3RC - Rural Cluster (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
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
4 Jul 2025Refuse permission
Intend to apply for Planning Permission,
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0604
18 Jun 2025Refuse permission
The development will consist of the construction of a detached four be
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0548E
10 Jun 2025Invalid application
Construction of a detached four bedroom dormer dwelling with on-site w
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0506E
20 May 2024Refuse permission
Intend to aplly for planning permission
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0454
1 Sept 2022Grant permission
Construction of new detached garage and associated site works.
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22B/0189
22 Apr 2021Refuse permission
Construction of (i) a new detached four bedroom single storey dwelling
Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0235
19 Mar 2021Grant permission
(1) Demolition of signle storey porch and single storey utility room t
Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0157
8 Feb 2018Grant permission & grant retention
Retention permission and permission at the existing agricultural build
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F17A/0341
12 Apr 2016Grant permission
A new part single-storey, part two-storey house, detached garage and w
Permission · Fingal County Council, F15A/0530
10 Sept 2014Refuse permission
A storey and a half dwelling with waste water treatment system and per
Permission · Fingal County Council, F14A/0372
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 Rallekaystown.
Recorded monuments
- DU008-114 Enclosure
Description
Located on the SSW facing slopes of a broad WNW-ESE running ridge, known locally as 'Seaver's Hill , with very extensive views E towards the sea, S to the Dublin mountains, and W along the ridge. Views to the N somewhat restricted by higher ground. Situated centrally in a large arable field c. 23m E of the road between Lusk and Skerries, and c. 96.5m ESE of the centre of a ring-ditch (DU008-113----) to other side of this road. A trapezoidal enclosure with the longer side to the N (ext. diam. c. 42.5m NNE-SSW and c. 37.5m WNW- ESE) defined by a ditch (Wth c. 2.7m). Within the interior, attached to the centre of the E perimeter, is a sub-rectangular enclosure (ext. dims. c. 7.8m), which may represent an entrance feature. Identified on the Digital Globe mapping by Christine Baker and Anthony Murphy, appearing as a crop-mark. Image taken from Google Pro 26 June 2018. Compiled by: Margaret Keane Uploaded on: 4 September 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rallekaystown.
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 Rallekaystown.
- 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 Rallekaystown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Rallekaystown · Baile Ráth Lúcáis
- Area
- 708,552 m² (70.86 ha, 175.09 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
- Balcunnin, Ballaghstown, Causestown, Collinstown, Greatcommon, Heathtown, Tyrrelstown Little
- Placenames
- Rallekaystown 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.