Windmillhill

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Windmillhill, from 43 m² to 305,687 m² (30.57 ha, 75.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P1RU (Agriculture)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 44 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 14 Sept 2023Refuse permission

  The construction of a split level single storey dwelling (199 sq.m.) with a detached garage (40 sq.m.), an on-site proprietary waste water treatment plant and percolation area, modifications to existing agricultural entrance at the L2019 to access the proposed dwelling and all ancillary site development works

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD23A/0226

• 30 Jun 2021Refuse permission

  Construction of a detached single storey split level bungalow; single storey domestic garage; upgrade of existing agricultural entrance to vehicular entrance; secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · South Dublin County Council, SD21A/0177

• 12 Mar 2021Refuse permission

  Construction of a detached, single storey split-level bungalow; single storey domestic garage; upgrade of existing agricultural entrance to vehicular entrance; secondary effluent treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · South Dublin County Council, SD21A/0059

• 4 Apr 2018Refuse ext. of duration of permission

  A dedicated area within the existing quarry site in which no more than 10,000 tonnes per year of imported inert materials (soils, stones, rock, concrete, tarmacadam) generated by off-site construction activities shall be segregated, processed, recycled and reused as raw materials for the existing on-site asphalt manufacturing plant. The proposed development requires a Certificate of Registration under the Waste Management (Facility Permit and Registration) Regulations 2007 and 2008.

  Extension of duration of permission · South Dublin County Council, SD12A/0059/EP

• 2 Dec 2015Decision quashed by high court

  Continued development of a quarry, 40.875ha. Reinstatement of worked out quarry to agricultural use by importation of inert subsoil and top soil amounting to a total of 11,151,570 cubic metres.

  Quarry registration · South Dublin County Council, SDQF15A/4

• 15 Aug 2012Grant permission

  A dedicated area within the existing quarry site in which no more than 10,000 tonnes per year of imported inert materials (soils, stones, rock, concrete, tarmacadam) generated by off-site construction activities shall be segregated, processed, recycled and reused as raw materials for the existing on-site asphalt manufacturing plant. The proposed development requires a Certificate of Registration under the Waste Management (Facility Permit and Registration) Regulations 2007 and 2008.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD12A/0059

• 18 Nov 2011Refuse permission

  The establishment of a waste management facility with a maximum intake volume of 10,000 tonnes per annum to accept inert waste material including waste bituminous mixtures (EWC 170302), waste concrete (EWC 170101) & waste gravel and crushed rocks (EWC 010408) for it's recycling & reuse in the existing tarmacadam manufacturing plant located on the site. The site currently has a waste permit (Waste Permit No. WPR 051/2) with a permitted volume of 500 tonnes per annum. This facility requires a Certificate of Registration under the Waste Management (Facility Permit and Registration) Regulations 2007 and 2008.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD11A/0271

• 6 Jul 2010Declared withdrawn

  The establishment of a Waste Management Facility with a maximum intake volume of 24,000 tonnes per annum to accept inert waste material including waste bituminous mixtures (EWC 170302), waste concrete (EWC 170101) & waste gravel and crushed rocks (EWC010408) for it's recycling & reuse in the existing tarmacadam manufacturing plant located on the site and to facilitate the deposit of waste bituminous product, waste gravel and waste concrete into haul roads throughout the subject quarry site in which the subject waste facility is located. The site currently has a Waste Permit (Waste Permit No. WPR 051/2) with a permitted volume of 500 tonnes per annum. This development requires a Waste Facility Permit under the Waste Management (Facility Permit and Registration) Regulations 2007 and 2008.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD10A/0197

• 7 Nov 2008Withdraw the application

  One and a half storey office building single storey facing the N7. The building has a total area of 540sq.m., it includes office space, toilets and canteen, on the ground floor with board room on the upper floor and installation of a 'hydro' effluent treatment plant.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD08A/0764

• 29 May 2008Report returned to an coimisiún pleanála

  Proposed resource recovery facility for the thermal treatment of non-hazardous residual, municipal and construction and demolition waste.

  Strategic infrastructure application · South Dublin County Council, 06S.PA0006

• 19 Jul 2007Recommended decision

  Application for Registration of a Quarry under Section 261 of Planning & Development Act 2000.

  Quarry registration · South Dublin County Council, SDQU05A/4

• 6 Jun 2007Refuse permission

  Dormer bungalow, entrance and puraflo treatment unit at side.

  Permission, 1 home · South Dublin County Council, SD07A/0424

• 9 Oct 2006Grant permission

  Two storey extention to rear of existing house incorporating velux windows to rear and alterations to front elevation to include new bay window and replacement hall door, with associated site works including replacement of existing septic tank with new bio-cycle unit.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD06B/0449

• 17 Aug 2006Grant permission for retention

  Garage conversion to living room and the front gate with raised pillars and fence as built.

  Retention · South Dublin County Council, SD06B/0635

• 2 Nov 2001Grant permission

  Bungalow and sewage treatment plant.

  Permission, 1 home · South Dublin County Council, S01A/0319

• 13 Mar 2001Refuse permission

  Bungalow and sewage treatment plant.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, S00A/0918

• 28 Feb 2001Refuse permission

  Revision to roof design on granted planning permission, Ref. S00A/0449

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, S01B/0108

• 25 Sept 2000Grant permission

  Dormer bungalow, bio cycle effluent treatment unit and stables.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, S00A/0449

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Windmillhill.

Recorded monuments

• DU021-038 Windmill
  Description

  Situated on top of Windmill Hill. The site comprises a circular tower that rises to two storeys. It is built of randomly coursed masonry (int. diam.2.8m, wall T 1.20m). There are segmental arched doorways in the NE and SW, which are rebated with bar holes. A fireplace lies to the W on the ground floor. In the SE is an inter-mural pointed recess. Stone stairs lead to first floor. The interior is lit by plain rectangular opes in NE and S sides. This windmill is probably 18th century in date but it occupies the site of an earlier windmill referred to in 1413 AD. (D'Alton 1838, 677). Compiled by Geraldine Stout Uploaded on: 18 January 2013

• DU021-113 Cairn - burial cairn
  Description

  On the summit of Windmill Hill, is a broad low circular cairn, (Diam 40m ; H 1.5m ) commanding extensive views in all directions. The cairn is grass covered and was first reported by Ó Lionáin and Davis having been identified in 2014 from lidar survey and analysis (see attachment DU021-013----_2). On the southern quadrant of the denuded cairn is a windmill (DU021-038----). Both monuments lie directly NNE of an enclosure identified by geophysical analysis (Target 2018) DU021-114----. which itself sits centrally within a ceremonial enclosure DU021-115---- . The cairn is situated off-centre within another enclosure (DU021-116----) which can be traced intermittently following the contours of the ridge on of Windmill hill, possibly representing a hillfort first reported by O’ Lionáin and Davis. Approximately 150m to the SE of the cairn, beyond both enclosing monuments, is a ring-ditch DU021- 117----. Compiled by: Margaret Keane Updated on: 29 November 2018

• DU021-114 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Placed centrally within a ceremonial enclosure (DU021-111----) this regular circular enclosure, illustrated as an incomplete ring-ditch was first reported in 2018 in a geophyscial survey (Target Archaeological Geophysics, 2018). It is depicted as an incomplete circuit, running from SSE, through W to NNE, which appears to have been encroached upon and disturbed by the adjacent cairn DU021-113---- (see attached image DU021-113_01). The ring-ditch encloses an area 25m in diameter presenting according to the geophysical report as a series of concentric positive and negative curving responses (ibid.) with no surface expression. Within this enclosure are concentrations of high response suggestive of archaeological activity. The monument lies just SW of DU021-113----, a cairn, and DU-021-038 a windmill. It also lies within another enclosure DU021-016---- which may represent a hillfort. Compiled by: Margaret Keane Uploaded on: 29 November 2018

• DU021-115 Ceremonial enclosure
  Description

  This regular circular enclosure has been described as a series of narrow and weakly magnetic curving responses and trends (Target, 2018). It is most clearly visible in imagery from W to S to E, it fades from view further NE and NW and is truncated at the N by the current edge of the quarry which runs from NW to NE. It was first identified in geophysical analysis carried out on foot of previous research (Ó Lionáin and Davis, 2014). The enclosure (diam. 170m) encircles the hilltop at Windmill hill containing DU021-010----, a continuous ring-ditch at its centre. Just off-centre to the NE of DU021-010---, is DU021-009---- a cairn, and the windmill DU021-038----. It is most clearly visible in imagery from W to S to E, it fades from view further NE and NW and is truncated at the N by the current edge of the quarry which runs from NW to NE. It lies within the confines of a hillfort possible DU021-112----. Beyond the ceremonial enclosure, approximately 80m to the south-east, is a ring-ditch DU021-013----. Compiled by: Margaret Keane Uploaded on: 14 January 2019

• DU021-116 Hillfort
  Description

  An irregular oval enclosure which appears to enclose parts of the summit of Windmill Hill. The monument was first reported (Ní Lionáin and Davis, 2014) in 2014 on the basis of lidar survey and analysis and subsequent geophysical analysis (Target, 2018) further clarified its features. The monument is most clearly seen at the W as a poorly defined series of positive and negative linear responses, curving at the W and extending in overall length 215m to the ENE. Additional curved lengths are visible at the ENE edge of the ridge with N and S sides more linear and less obvious. The monument measures 114m N-S in form is probably a hill fort enclosing a total area of 2.5 HA. DU021-038 a windmill, DU021-109---- a cairn, DU021-111---- a ceremonial enclosure with associated enclosure DU021-110---- lie within the confines of the hillfort. To the SE of the hillfort is a ring-ditch DU021-113----. Compiled by: Margaret Keane Uploaded on: 15 January 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Windmillhill.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Windmillhill, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2942 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Windmillhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Windmillhill · Cnoc an Mhuilinn Ghaoithe

Area

615,155 m² (61.52 ha, 152.01 acres)

Civil parish

Newcastle, and its townlands

Barony

Newcastle

Electoral division

Rathcoole, the unit of the census

Census 2022

6,590 people lived in 2,172 households in the Rathcoole electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bustyhill, Carrigeen, Colmanstown, Keatingspark, Newtown Lower, Steelstown

Placenames

Windmillhill 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.