Shallon
Townland in the civil parish of Finglas, barony of Castleknock, Co. Dublin; in Irish Sealúin
- Area
- 23.1 ha
- 57 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 115,315 m² (11.53 ha, 28.5 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- GB - Green Belt
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shallon, from 3,664 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres) to 226,967 m² (22.7 ha, 56.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 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
- G3GB - Green Belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 8 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
6 Aug 202649 day assessment
A 10 Year Planning Permission for a solar farm and energy storage comp
Rediii permisssion · Fingal County Council, FW26A/0308E/R3
23 Jul 2026Invalid application
a 10 Year Planning Permission for a solar farm and energy storage comp
Rediii permisssion · Fingal County Council, FW26A/0299E/R3
7 May 2015Grant permission
Construction of a dwelling, installation of a waste water treatment un
Permission · Fingal County Council, F14A/0420
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 Shallon.
Recorded monuments
- DU011-175 Enclosure
Description
Located in a large arable field c. 240m to the W of a N–S unnamed stream that forms the E boundary of Shallon townland, cropmarks of a circular enclosure are clearly visible on Google Earth imagery (12 July 2013). Another enclosure (DU011-176----) is adjacent to the NW. The enclosure (ext. diam. c. 46m) is defined by a ditch (Wth c. 1.5m). Compiled by: Tom Condit Uploaded on: 26 April 2021
- DU011-176 Enclosure
Description
Located in an large a4rable field c. 280m to the west of a N–S unnamed stream that forms the E boundary of Shallon townland, cropmarks of a circular enclosure are clearly visible on Google Earth imagery (12 July 2013). Another enclosure (DU011-175---) is located adjacent to the SE. The enclosure (ext. diam. c. 46m) is defined by a ditch (Wth c. 1.5m). Compiled by: Tom Condit Uploaded on: 26 April 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Shallon.
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 moderately low, 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 Shallon.
- 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 Shallon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Shallon · Sealúin
- Area
- 230,630 m² (23.06 ha, 56.99 acres)
- Civil parish
- Finglas, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castleknock
- Electoral division
- Dubber, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dubber electoral division: 8,931 people in 2,882 households; 47% of households own their home; 89% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bishopswood, Broghan, Newpark, Shallon
- Placenames
- Shallon 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.