Snugborough
Townland in the civil parish of Balgriffin, barony of Coolock, Co. Dublin; in Irish Snugborough
- Area
- 41.6 ha
- 103 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 1,480 m²
- Zoning
- G3
- GB - Green Belt
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Snugborough, from 82 m² to 165,125 m² (16.51 ha, 40.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R3Z14: Strategic Development and Regeneration Areas (SDRAs) (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
Development Plan 2022-2028, Dublin · 3 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 Aug 2026Referral
The development will consist of: Permission for new 5m high fencing, 1
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0779E
3 Mar 2022Withdraw application
Planning permission for a new enlarged and upgraded vehicular entrance
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0103
28 Jan 2021Grant permission
Permission for construction of a 151 sqm shed to rear (south) of the e
Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0039
11 Jul 2017Grant permission
Amendments to previously approved residential development Reg. Ref. F1
Permission · Fingal County Council, F17A/0412
12 Dec 2016Grant permission
Amendments to previously approved residential development Reg. Ref. F1
Permission · Fingal County Council, F16A/0374
24 Nov 2014Refuse permission
270 no dwelling houses (terraced, semi-detached and detached), compris
Permission · Fingal County Council, F14A/0132
24 Oct 2014Grant permission
Amendments to planning permission granted under Ref. Ref. F07A/0424 (A
Permission · Fingal County Council, F14A/0316
7 May 2013Grant extension of duration of perm.
Development of a residential scheme on a site C.10.42 hectares.
Extension of duration of permission · Fingal County Council, F07A/0424/E1
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 Snugborough.
Recorded monuments
- DU015-161 Earthwork
Description
In tillage field. Cropmark of circular shaped earthwork (diam. 20m) bisected at SE by second cropmark (DU015-162----) visible on Google Earth aerial imagery taken 14/08/2024. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillere
- DU015-162 Earthwork
Description
In tillage field. Cropmark of circular shaped earthwork (DU015-161---) bisected at SE by second oval-shaped cropmark (dims. 43m N-S) visible on Google Earth aerial imagery taken 14/08/2024. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillere
- DU015-163 Ring-ditch
Description
In tillage field. Cropmark of circular shaped ring-ditch (diam. 9m) visible on Google Earth aerial imagery taken 14/08/2024. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillere
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Snugborough.
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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3306 (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 Snugborough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Snugborough · Snugborough
- Area
- 415,650 m² (41.57 ha, 102.71 acres)
- Civil parish
- Balgriffin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coolock
- Electoral division
- Balgriffin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Balgriffin electoral division: 5,544 people in 1,238 households; 55% of households own their home; 86% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balgriffin Park, Drumnigh, Maynetown, Saintdoolaghs
- Placenames
- Snugborough 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.