Seapoint
Townland in the civil parish of Swords, barony of Nethercross, Co. Dublin; in Irish An Pointe
- Area
- 13.7 ha
- 34 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 8,665 m² (0.87 ha, 2.14 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- HA - High Amenity
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Seapoint, from 6,795 m² (0.68 ha, 1.68 acres) to 69,873 m² (6.99 ha, 17.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 3 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
- G3HA - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 6 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
2 Jan 2024Grant permission
Permission is sought for (a) internal demolition of some non-original
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0438
16 May 2011Grant permission
The development will consist of the demolition of an existing agricult
Permission · Fingal County Council, F11A/0027
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Malahide Estuary SAC 000205
- Special Protection Area: Malahide Estuary SPA 004025
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Malahide Estuary 000205
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Seapoint.
Architectural heritage
- Prospect House, stables, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Detached eleven-bay two-storey stable block, c.1850, now in residential use. Rubble stone outbuildings to site.ROOF: Double-pitched; slate; gabled; clay ridge tiles; rendered chimney stacks; uPVC rainwater goods. WALLS: Rrandom coursed rubble granite with granite quoining. OPENINGS: Square-headed window openings, rendered surrounds; soffits; reveals; concrete cills; timber casements windows; square headed door openings; rendered surrounds; some with stone steps; modern half doors.
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 Seapoint.
- 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
- Seapoint, Balbriggan7 sales
The townland
- Name
- Seapoint · An Pointe
- Area
- 136,559 m² (13.66 ha, 33.74 acres)
- Civil parish
- Swords, and its townlands
- Barony
- Nethercross
- Electoral division
- Donabate, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Donabate electoral division: 11,783 people in 3,900 households; 79% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymadrough, Lissenhall Great
- Placenames
- Seapoint 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.