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Sheephill

Townland in the civil parish of Castleknock, barony of Castleknock, Co. Dublin; in Irish Cnoc na gCaorach

Area
140.5 ha
347 acres
Land parcels
197
registered freehold, median 195 m²
Zoning
R2
RS - Residential
Planning
65
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

1979 m across. Click a parcel to see it. © Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

197 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sheephill, from 4 m² to 109,880 m² (10.99 ha, 27.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

Planning applications

Sites that touch the townland, newest first

The 25 most recent of 65 applications.

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 Sheephill.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Sheephill.

Architectural heritage

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
Terrain model
LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3118 (ZIP).
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 Sheephill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

The townland

Name
Sheephill · Cnoc na gCaorach
Area
1,404,658 m² (140.47 ha, 347.1 acres)
Civil parish
Castleknock, and its townlands
Barony
Castleknock
Electoral division
Blanchardstown-Abbotstown, the unit of the census
Census 2022
Blanchardstown-Abbotstown electoral division: 6,551 people in 2,008 households; 50% of households own their home; 71% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Abbotstown, Ballycoolen, Cappoge, Deanestown, Dunsink
Placenames
Sheephill 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.