# Rowans Big, Co. Dublin: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lusk, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin; in Irish An Ruán Mór. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,023,204 m² (102.32 ha, 252.84 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 15,395 m² (1.54 ha, 3.8 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): C2.1 GE - General Employment, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lusk, https://everytownland.com/dublin/parish/lusk.md - Barony: Balrothery East - Electoral division: Lusk, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 10,774 people lived in 3,341 households in the Lusk electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 62% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Dublin, https://everytownland.com/dublin.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/17006 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 260800 - Centre: latitude 53.568113, longitude -6.218851 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rowans Big, from 128 m² to 280,773 m² (28.08 ha, 69.38 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1794642: 280,773 m² (28.08 ha, 69.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1794642.md - Parcel 1889319: 147,954 m² (14.8 ha, 36.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1889319.md - Parcel 1889318: 111,821 m² (11.18 ha, 27.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1889318.md - Parcel 1889313: 94,130 m² (9.41 ha, 23.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1889313.md - Parcel 1889317: 86,502 m² (8.65 ha, 21.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1889317.md - Parcel 1794647: 70,403 m² (7.04 ha, 17.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1794647.md - Parcel 1889315: 40,216 m² (4.02 ha, 9.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1889315.md - Parcel 1794643: 39,013 m² (3.9 ha, 9.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1794643.md - Parcel 1889311: 38,963 m² (3.9 ha, 9.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1889311.md - Parcel 1889320: 25,784 m² (2.58 ha, 6.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1889320.md - Parcel 1794641: 16,150 m² (1.61 ha, 3.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1794641.md - Parcel 1889312: 15,395 m² (1.54 ha, 3.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1889312.md - Parcel 1794648: 13,482 m² (1.35 ha, 3.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1794648.md - Parcel 5442019: 12,158 m² (1.22 ha, 3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5442019.md - Parcel 1794645: 9,283 m² (0.93 ha, 2.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1794645.md - Parcel 2849971: 3,703 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2849971.md - Parcel 1889316: 3,470 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1889316.md - Parcel 2968852: 3,463 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2968852.md - Parcel 1794646: 3,112 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1794646.md - Parcel 1794644: 2,572 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1794644.md - Parcel 2968934: 216 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2968934.md - Parcel 1889321: 208 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1889321.md - Parcel 1889314: 128 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1889314.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - C2.1 GE - General Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment): The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal; 18 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.fingal.ie/development-plan - P1 RU - Rural (Agriculture): The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal; 14 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.fingal.ie/development-plan - G3 HA - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal; 7 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.fingal.ie/development-plan ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 19 Apr 2024, Fingal County Council F24A/0362E: Grant permission. Permission. The proposed development will consist of:. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 19 May 2022, Fingal County Council F22A/0258: Grant permission. Permission. The installation of 700 Sqm of roof mounted solar panels and all. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 19 May 2022, Fingal County Council F22A/0255: Grant permission. Permission. The decommissioning of an existing wastewater treatment plant (888 sq.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 6 Mar 2020, Fingal County Council F20A/0107: Refuse permission for retention. Retention. Retention Permission for replacement and erection of a freestanding ad. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bog Of The Ring, site code 001204 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DU004-017: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDU004-017----. Situated on a gentle E-facing slope under tillage west of the M1. An aerial photograph taken in 1972 (FSI 4.507/8) shows a roughly circular cropmark (diam. c. 20m) of an enclosure with an opening in the SW quadrant. Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Update by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 31 October 2014 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rowans Big. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Rowans Big, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rowans Big. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/dublin/rowans-big.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/dublin/rowans-big.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/dublin/rowans-big.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rowans Big with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin: https://everytownland.com/dublin.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Balrickard: https://everytownland.com/dublin/balrickard.md - Courtlough: https://everytownland.com/dublin/courtlough.md - Knock: https://everytownland.com/dublin/knock.md - Ring Commons: https://everytownland.com/dublin/ring-commons.md - Rowans Little: https://everytownland.com/dublin/rowans-little.md - Walshestown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/walshestown.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/dublin/rowans-big - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/dublin/rowans-big