# Scribblestown, Co. Dublin: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Castleknock, barony of Castleknock, Co. Dublin; in Irish Baile Scriobail. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,098,973 m² (109.9 ha, 271.56 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 11,858 m² (1.19 ha, 2.93 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R1 RA - Residential Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 11 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Castleknock, https://everytownland.com/dublin/parish/castleknock.md - Barony: Castleknock - Electoral division: Blanchardstown-Abbotstown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 6,551 people lived in 2,008 households in the Blanchardstown-Abbotstown electoral division. 50% of households owned their home. 71% of homes were built since 2001. 6% 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/17233 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 260816 - Centre: latitude 53.38254, longitude -6.332735 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Scribblestown, from 68 m² to 295,156 m² (29.52 ha, 72.93 acres); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 3760758: 295,156 m² (29.52 ha, 72.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3760758.md - Parcel 3252464: 151,775 m² (15.18 ha, 37.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3252464.md - Parcel 5532533: 68,537 m² (6.85 ha, 16.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5532533.md - Parcel 5150253: 41,624 m² (4.16 ha, 10.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5150253.md - Parcel 5063941: 20,144 m² (2.01 ha, 4.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5063941.md - Parcel 3252486: 19,007 m² (1.9 ha, 4.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3252486.md - Parcel 4063433: 13,734 m² (1.37 ha, 3.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4063433.md - Parcel 4332036: 9,982 m² (1 ha, 2.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4332036.md - Parcel 3252501: 9,684 m² (0.97 ha, 2.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3252501.md - Parcel 5427996: 3,972 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5427996.md - Parcel 5542415: 2,112 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5542415.md - Parcel 5492958: 1,635 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5492958.md - Parcel 5529710: 235 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5529710.md - Parcel 1821148: 68 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1821148.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - R1 RA - Residential Area (New/proposed residential): The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal; 9 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 - S3 CI - Community Infrastructure (Community facilities): The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal; 3 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.fingal.ie/development-plan - G5 Z9: Amenity/Open Space Lands/Green Network (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other): Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11), Dublin City; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.dublincity.ie/sites/default/files/2022-12/Final%201-14%20Land%20Use%20Zoning%2005.12.22.pdf ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 11 applications, newest first. - 31 Mar 2026, Fingal County Council FW26A/0129E: Grant permission for retention. Retention. Retention Permission is sought for a 2 storey (4 m x 9 m) extension to. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 22 Oct 2019, Fingal County Council FW19A/0117: Grant permission. Permission. The construction of a single storey extension to the side and rear of. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 16 Feb 2018, Fingal County Council FW17A/0154: Grant permission. Permission. Development of a residential care houme (nursing home) on lands at Dus. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 22 Apr 2016, Fingal County Council FW15A/0154: Grant permission. Permission. Permission for the construction of a new polytunnel building,. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 29 Oct 2014, Fingal County Council FW14A/0095: Grant permission. Permission. Permission for a residential care centre (nursing home). File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 17 Jun 2014, Fingal County Council FW14A/0068: Invalid application due to site notice. Permission. Permission for development of a residential care centre (nursing home). File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 29 Apr 2013, Fingal County Council FW12A/0069: Grant permission & grant retention. Permission and retention. Planning permission for the construction of the following: - 1) Extens. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 16 Apr 2013, Fingal County Council FW13A/0039: Grant permission. Permission. Permission for the development of a residential unit. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 21 Mar 2013, Fingal County Council FW13A/0028: Withdraw application. Permission. Change of use of residential premises to cemetry and associated servic. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 18 Mar 2011, Fingal County Council FW10A/0178: Grant permission for retention. Retention. Retention for a period of five years, of existing 2 no. single-storey,. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 17 Feb 2011, Fingal County Council FW10A/0149: Grant permission. Permission. Alterations to planning permission registry reference F05A/0049 to pro. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Scribblestown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Scribblestown. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Scribblestown. ## 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 Scribblestown, 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. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3147, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3147.zip (ZIP). - 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/scribblestown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/dublin/scribblestown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/dublin/scribblestown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Scribblestown 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) - Ashtown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/ashtown.md - Cardiffsbridge: https://everytownland.com/dublin/cardiffsbridge.md - Dunsink: https://everytownland.com/dublin/dunsink.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/scribblestown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/dublin/scribblestown