Westereave
Westereave is a townland in the civil parish of Killeek, barony of Nethercross, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is Westereave.
- Area
- 69 ha
- 171 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 3,894 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres)
- Zoning
- M2
- RV - Rural Village
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Westereave, from 2,223 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 498,784 m² (49.88 ha, 123.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- M2RV - Rural Village (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 12 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 - G3GB - Green Belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3HA - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4OS - Open Space (Active open space)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 0 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
23 Jul 2020Refuse permission
Phase 2 will consist of 99 houses (6 x 2 bed dormer bungalows, 82 x 3
Permission · Fingal County Council, F19A/0639
23 Jul 2020Grant permission
Phase I will consist of 99 houses (2 x 2 bed dormer bungalows, 74 x 3
Permission · Fingal County Council, F19A/0638
8 Jul 2019Refuse permission
Phase II of a three-phase masterplan for a residential, commercial and
Permission · Fingal County Council, F19A/0292
8 Jul 2019Refuse permission
Phase III of a three-phase masterplan for a residential, commercial an
Permission · Fingal County Council, F19A/0293
8 Jul 2019Refuse permission
Phase I of a three-phase masterplan for a residential, commercial and
Permission · Fingal County Council, F19A/0291
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 Westereave.
Recorded monuments
- DU011-026 Enclosure
Description
Located north of the Broadmeadow river in the southeast of a large field under tillage. An aerial photograph taken in 1971 (FSI 3.513/512) shows a cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam c. 70m). It is also visible on OS colour vertical photography (OS 8 6923). Evident on Bing maps as substantial sub-circular enclosure extending from southern field boundary and enclosing a sub-rectangular enclosure. Number of undulations in this corner but definite oval rise (c.14m EW x c.20m NS) with occasional large stone evident. A number of sites in proximity to this site have been identified from Bing. Immediately north within the same field is a circular enclosure (DU011-112----) To the west in adjacent field is a newly identified ring ditch (DU011-110----) with another ring ditch in the next field west (DU011-111----). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 03 January 2015
- DU011-084 Burial ground
Description
Located within a relatively flat field of tillage with extensive views. Excavations in 1988 during the construction of a gas pipeline revealed a total of 57 burials, 12 of which were placed in slab-lined grave pits. There was no enclosing element around the cemetery. All the burials lay roughly in rows, at a distance of 0.2m or more from each other. A small iron buckle and a fragment of bronze were recovered from the site (Gowen 1988, 18). Subsequent monitoring in 1999 west of the area excavated revealed no further features (Conway 2000, 96). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 09 January 2015
- DU011-110 Ring-ditch
Description
A circular ring-ditch visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Located within farmland north of the Ward river. Several monuments within adjacent fields. No visible remains at ground level. Compiled by: David O’Connor Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 09 January 2015
- DU011-111 Ring-ditch
Description
A circular ring-ditch visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Located within large open field north of the Ward river. Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: David O’Connor Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 09 January 2015
- DU011-112 Enclosure
Description
A circular enclosure visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph located to the north of a large circular enclosure (DU011-026----) (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Located within farmland north of the Ward river. No visible remains at ground level. Compiled by: David O’Connor Update by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 09 January 2015
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Westereave.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Westereave, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Westereave.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Westereave with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Westereave · Westereave
- Area
- 690,277 m² (69.03 ha, 170.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killeek, and its townlands
- Barony
- Nethercross
- Electoral division
- Kilsallaghan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,406 people lived in 761 households in the Kilsallaghan electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Killeek, Mountambrose Great, Toberburr
- Placenames
- Westereave 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.