Scatternagh
Scatternagh is a townland in the civil parish of Killossery, barony of Nethercross, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is Scatarnach.
- Area
- 69.1 ha
- 171 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 2,107 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- RU - Rural
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Scatternagh, from 2,066 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 686,493 m² (68.65 ha, 169.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 13 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
27 Feb 2026Grant permission
Uisce Eireann intend to apply for planning permission for development
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0142E
9 Jan 2026Invalid application due to site notice
Uisce Eireann intend to apply for planning permission for development
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0005E
19 Dec 2025Invalid application
Uisce Eireann intend to apply for planning permission for development
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/1198E
23 Nov 2020Grant permission
Permission to construct; (i) Milking parlour building with collecting
Permission · Fingal County Council, F20A/0399
11 Aug 2020Grant permission & grant retention
Permission to construct (i) removed part of existing hedgerow to ach
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F20A/0173
29 Jul 2020Invalid planning application
Permission to construct 1) Milking parlour building with collecting ya
Permission · Fingal County Council, F20A/0375
30 Jan 2020Withdraw application
(I) Milking parlour building with collecting yard, crush area, holding
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F19A/0445
17 Dec 2019Grant permission
The demolition of two existing derelict houses and the construction of
Strategic housing development · Fingal County Council, SHD/010/19
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 Scatternagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Scatternagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Scatternagh.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Scatternagh, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Scatternagh.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Scatternagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Scatternagh · Scatarnach
- Area
- 690,666 m² (69.07 ha, 170.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killossery, and its townlands
- Barony
- Nethercross
- Electoral division
- Kilsallaghan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,406 people lived in 761 households in the Kilsallaghan electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drishoge, Drishoge, Killeen, Lispopple, Rowlestown East, Rowlestown West
- Placenames
- Scatternagh 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.