Walshestown
Townland in the civil parish of Lusk, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin; in Irish Baile na mBreatnach
- Area
- 173 ha
- 427 acres
- Land parcels
- 51
- registered freehold, median 6,525 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- HA - High Amenity
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Walshestown, from 39 m² to 242,418 m² (24.24 ha, 59.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 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 · 65 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 20 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
19 Apr 2024Refuse permission
The development will consist of the re-contouring of agricultural land
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0358
28 Mar 2024Invalid application
The development will consist of the recontouring of agricultural land
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0289
14 Apr 2021Withdraw application
Permission for a two storey dwelling and garage to include the install
Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0203
8 Oct 2019Refuse permission
A two storey dwelling and garage to include the installation of a prop
Permission · Fingal County Council, F19A/0135
14 Aug 2019Grant permission
Permission for the continued infilling of the former quarry
Permission · Fingal County Council, F19A/0077
5 Dec 2017Grant permission
Re-use and restoration of the existing single-storey period cottage co
Permission · Fingal County Council, F17A/0574
13 Feb 2017Grant permission for retention
Retention for the following: 1) a new proprietary wastewater treatment
Retention · Fingal County Council, F17A/0078
17 Dec 2015Refuse permission
Construction of a detached dwelling house, new site entrance, waste wa
Permission · Fingal County Council, F15A/0585
11 Dec 2015Grant permission
Revision of house type from a bungalow as granted under planning ref.
Permission · Fingal County Council, F15A/0575
30 Oct 2015Grant permission
Extension to rear of dwelling.
Permission · Fingal County Council, F15B/0243
17 Aug 2015Withdraw application
Retention of a single storey detached domestic storage shed. Permissi
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F15A/0377
16 Sept 2014Grant permission
Construction of a bungalow dwelling with a detached garage, to include
Permission · Fingal County Council, F14A/0238
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 Walshestown.
Recorded monuments
- DU004-015 Ring-ditch
Description
Located on level ground in an upland area under tillage. An aerial photograph taken in 1972 (FSI 455/510) shows a circular cropmark of a ditched feature (diam. c. 15m). Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 31 October 2014
- DU004-024 Ring-ditch
Description
Situated on level ground which falls away to the E, allowing spectacular views of the coast. Under tillage. An aerial photograph taken in 1977 (BKS 2736231) shows a circular cropmark of a single-ditched feature (diam. c. 15m). Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 6 November 2014
- DU004-025 Enclosure
Description
Located on a natural rise. Shown on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) encompassing a mill. This enclosure may have been constructed to keep cattle out from the sails of the windmill as was the case at the mills in Skerries (DU005-027001- ). Not visible at ground level (Healy 1975, 16). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 6 November 2014
- DU004-069 Enclosure
Description
A series of irregular shaped enclosures attached to one another visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). This site was subject to geophysical survey (05R062) which identified extensive remains 60m EW x 130m NS. Site is located on a natural rise in a sheltered position adjacent to a river to the south. No visible remains. Compiled by: David O’Connor Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 6 November 2014
- DU004-070 Enclosure
Description
A double-ring circular enclosure visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). This site is within a south-west sloping field with extensive views over the plains of Fingal to the Dublin mountains. Compiled by: David O’Connor Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 18 November 2014
- DU004-090 Enclosure
Description
Circular-shaped cropmark (diam. c. 25m) visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 21/07/2021. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photograph taken 21/07/2021 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 9 November 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Walshestown.
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 Walshestown.
- 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 Walshestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Walshestown · Baile na mBreatnach
- Area
- 1,729,504 m² (172.95 ha, 427.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lusk, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery East
- Electoral division
- Lusk, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Lusk electoral division: 10,774 people in 3,341 households; 78% of households own their home; 62% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balrickard, Beldaragh, Belgee, Hollywood Great, Jordanstown, Nevitt, Rowans Big, Rowans Little, Tooman
- Placenames
- Walshestown 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.