Turkinstown
Townland in the civil parish of Balrothery, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin; in Irish Baile Thuircín
- Area
- 33.6 ha
- 83 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 9,874 m² (0.99 ha, 2.44 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- GB - Green Belt
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Turkinstown, from 459 m² to 107,719 m² (10.77 ha, 26.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 - P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4OS - Open Space (Active open space)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 4 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
8 Jun 2025Refuse permission
The development will consist of: A Single storey detached dwelling, n
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0500E
2 Jun 2025Invalid application
A Single story detached dwelling, new domestic entrance onto public ro
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0478E
23 Jul 2024Grant permission
The construction of a dwelling, installation of a waste water treatmen
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0659E
21 Feb 2024Refuse permission
The development will consist of
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0136
27 Sept 2023Refuse permission
Planning permission for the construction of a dwelling, installation o
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0582
29 Jul 2022Refuse permission
Permission for the construction of a dwelling, installation of a waste
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0388
3 Jun 2022Invalid application due to site notice
The construction of a dwelling, installation of a waste water treatmen
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0282
5 Sept 2017Grant permission
A) new dormer-style dwellinghouse with new propietary wastewater treat
Permission · Fingal County Council, F17A/0264
7 Jun 2012Grant permission for retention
The development will consist of retention for the removal of existing
Retention · Fingal County Council, F11A/0372
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 Turkinstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Turkinstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Turkinstown.
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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Turkinstown.
- 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 Turkinstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Turkinstown · Baile Thuircín
- Area
- 335,925 m² (33.59 ha, 83.01 acres)
- Civil parish
- Balrothery, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery East
- Electoral division
- Balbriggan Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Balbriggan Rural electoral division: 19,347 people in 6,127 households; 60% of households own their home; 74% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bowhill, Inch, Matt, Ring, Stephenstown
- Placenames
- Turkinstown 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.