Woodtown

632 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Woodtown, from 2 m² to 166,235 m² (16.62 ha, 41.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 72 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2RES (Existing residential)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 553 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1RU (Agriculture)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 87 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1RES-N (New/proposed residential)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3HA-DM (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1OS (Open space, park)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M3LC (District, neighbourhood centre)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 10 Sept 2026Officer allocation

  Whether the change of use of laurel lodge from use as a house to use as a residence for persons with an intellectual disability or mental illness and persons providing care for such persons is or is not development and if development is it exempted development or not exempted development under class 14(f) of the Planning + Development regulations 2001, as amended

  Declaration of exemption sect. 5 · South Dublin County Council, ED26/0100

• 19 Jun 2026Seek clarification of additional information

  A tennis and padel sports facility, including 2No. outdoor tennis courts with associated floodlights; 3No. outdoor padel courts with integrated lighting partially covered with 10m high open-sided steel and canvas roof; 1No. indoor tennis hall housing 4 indoor tennis courts; 1No. indoor tennis hall housing 3 indoor tennis courts, warm up area, W/Cs, changing facilities & viewing platform; clubhouse containing toilets, changing rooms, kitchen, lounge, small office area, store room & viewing area; 49 car parking spaces; 52 bicycle parking spaces; new access from Stocking Well and all associated landscaping & site works.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD25A/0308W

• 14 May 2026Grant permission

  Construction of new two-storey extension to side of dwelling, with hipped roof extension, maintaining existing ridge height, alterations to existing main entrance, alterations to fenestration, new rooflights to rear roof slope, existing chimney extended to clear new roof, and all associated site works.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD26B/0091W

• 16 Mar 2026Grant permission

  The proposed modifications comprise the addition of 4 No. 2-storey Terraced Houses (three-bedroom units), along with 4 No. additional car parking spaces. This proposal will increase the overall number of residential units within the development from 80 No. to 84 No. Associated site works include revised bicycle storage arrangements, minor alterations to the site layout to accommodate the additional surface car parking spaces, and all other ancillary site development works necessary to facilitate the proposed development.

  Permission, 4 homes · South Dublin County Council, SD25A/0312W

• 11 Feb 2026Grant permission

  The proposed development seeks permission for modifications to the previously granted permission (Reg. Ref. SD23A/0260 and Reg. Ref. SD25A/0116W), specifically relating to Block A. The modifications comprise the addition of 9 No. apartment units (6 No. one-bedroom units and 3 No. two-bedroom units) at third-floor level, resulting in the fourth floor becoming the set-back floor. The proposal will increase the overall height of Block A from five to six storeys, and the total number of apartments from 34 to 43, now consisting of 25 No. one-bedroom units and 18 No. two-bedroom units. Minor elevational amendments are proposed to reflect the inclusion of the additional floor. No changes are proposed to the as-granted 8 No. duplex units or 38 No. terraced houses. Accordingly, the overall total number of residential units within the development will increase to 89 No.Associated site works include revised bicycle storage arrangements, minor alterations to the site layout to accommodate additional surface car parking spaces, and all other ancillary site development works.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD25A/0274W

• 5 Nov 2025Grant permission

  Planning Permission for removal of the existing original non-compliant septic tank and all associated services and installation of a new EPA compliant waste water treatment tank and sand filt6ration system to the rear of the existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD25B/0633

• 7 Oct 2025Refuse permission

  The application seeks permission for modifications to the previously granted planning permission (Reg. Ref. SD23A/260), specifically relating to the emergency vehicular access from Stocking Avenue. The proposed modifications consist of closing this access to emergency vehicles, while retaining permeability pedestrian access through the development There are no proposed changes to the as-granted buildings, the site layout, or the overall number of residential units.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD25A/0244W

• 23 Sept 2025Invalidate application

  Permission for development at this site, White Pines Stocking Avenue, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16. The application seeks permission for modifications to the previously granted planning permission (Reg. Ref. SD23A/260), specifically relating to the emergency vehicular access from Stocking Avenue. The proposed modifications consist of closing this access to emergency vehicles, while retaining permeability pedestrian access through the development. There are no proposed changes to the as-granted buildings, the site layout, or the overall number of residential units.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD25A/0235W

• 22 Aug 2025Grant permission

  The proposed development will consist of 502 no. residential units (108no. 1-bed, 170no. 2-bed, 162 no. 3-bed; 62 no. 4-bed) comprising 197no. 2 storey houses (terraced/semi-detached/detached) (19no. 2-bed, 116no. 3-bed; 62no. 4-bed) and 28no. 3 and 4 storey simplex/duplex apartment blocks providing 305no. apartments (108no. 1-bed apartments, 151no. 2-bed apartments, 46no. 3-bed apartments). The proposed development also includes a creche (c.475sq.m), public open space, car parking (surface/undercroft), bicycle parking, bicycle storage structures and lockers, bin stores, and 8no. ESB substations. Vehicular access to be provided from the existing spur road connection to Stocking Avenue to the west of the site, and via Stocking Wood Drive to the east of the site (with relocation of existing ESB substation and associated works to the existing hammerhead). Additional pedestrian only routes will be provided into Abbot's Grove Park and Stocking Wood Copse with future connections provided for into Stocking Wood Manor, White Pines Park and the future school site to the north of the application site. The proposed development includes all associated site development works (including site reprofiling, retaining structures and downing of ESB overhead lines), landscaping, boundary treatments and services provision the lands are located to the east of Abbots Grove Park, south-east of Abbots Grove Avenue, south of Stocking Avenue and Stocking Wood estate and west of White Pines Park.

  Permission, 502 homes · South Dublin County Council, LRD25A/0003W

• 12 Aug 2025Grant permission

  An attic conversion to non-habitable room with dormer window to the rear.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD25B/0489W

• 31 Jul 2025Unregistered application

  Proposed social housing development comprising 25 residential homes and all associated works on undeveloped lands located off Stocking Avenue and Stocking Lane, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16. Theproposed development shallconsist of: i.25 No. residential units comprising of 11 No. 1-bed units, 5 no. 2-bed units and 9 No. 3-bed units. ii.The proposed units are arranged in three terraced buildings consisting of three and two storey development and a mixture of duplex apartments and house types. All units are ‘own door’ units. iii.All associated site works to include hard and soft landscaping, removal of existing boundary structures and provision of new boundary treatments, all vehicular and pedestrian entrances and circulation, car and bicycle parking spaces, any ancillary storage or services structures,lighting, signage and all associated site and development works necessary to facilitate the development.iv.Any associated ancillary site works as may be required to facilitate the development in adjacent lands to include but not limited to –foul and surface water drainage and utility connections

  Application under part 8 · South Dublin County Council, PT8SD278

• 16 May 2025Grant permission

  Permission for modifications to previously granted under planning permission (Reg. Ref. SD23A-0260), specifically relating to Block A. The proposed modifications consist of the addition of 5 No. apartment units (1 No. 1-bed unit and 4 No. 2-bed units) on the third set-back floor. This change will increase the overall height of Block A from 4 storeys 5 storeys, and the total number of apartment units from 29 to 34 (comprising now 19 No. 1-bed units and 15 No. 2-bed units). Minor modifications to the elevations are also proposed as a result of the additional floor. No modifications to as-granted 08 no. duplex and 38 no. terraced houses, the overall total no. of units in this development is now increased to 80. Associated site works include revised bicycle storage, a slight modification to the site layout to accommodate additional surface car parking, and other ancillary works.

  Permission, 5 homes · South Dublin County Council, SD25A/0116W

• 14 Feb 2025Declared withdrawn

  The demolition of existing dormer bungalow & associated single storey storage sheds; the provision of a new two storey detached dwelling and separate single storey garage; along with the provision of a new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD25A/0334W

• 29 Jan 2025Declared exempt

  A Single Storey Extension 18.8mq to rear of the dwelling including 1 No. of roof light and associated works.

  Declaration of exemption sect. 5 · South Dublin County Council, ED25/0008

• 26 Nov 2024Declared exempt

  Continuation of boundary wall along side of house by 4500mm. Wall continuation consisting of blockwork to the back i.e. facing the house. Brick finish at front to match existing brick wall 2 meters high as per existing. Move gate to new position 4500mm forward.

  Declaration of exemption sect. 5 · South Dublin County Council, ED24/0068

• 16 Sept 2024Grant retention & refuse permission

  Retention Permission for a front single storey porch and change of part brick finish on front elevation to full render finish and permission to widen the vehicular access to our property

  Permission and retention · South Dublin County Council, SD24B/0410

• 20 Jun 2024Grant permission

  The development will consist of the construction of a dormer window in the main roof to the rear of the property, building up the gable, with gable window, in place of the existing hip in the main roof and all associated site works

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD24B/0182

• 5 Apr 2024Grant permission

  Construction of 75 no. residential units in a mix of apartments, terraced housing and duplex apartment units comprising; an apartment building (Block A, c. 2,518 sq. m GFA), varying in height between 3 and 4 storeys and comprising 29 no. units (18 no. 1 bed units and 11 no. 2 bed units). A 3-storey duplex apartment building (Block B, c. 792 sq.m GFA) comprising 8 no. units (4 no. 2-bed, single storey apartments and 4 no. 3-bed, 2 storey duplex units). 38 no. terraced houses, with a mix of 24 no. 2 storey, 2 bed units and 14 no. 2 storey, 3 bed units. The development will also provide 85 no. car parking spaces (including 17 no EV spaces and 4 no. accessible spaces) and 84 no. cycle parking spaces. The main vehicular access to the scheme will be from Stocking Avenue, via White Pines Dale with 3 no. access points along the southern boundary of the site. An additional emergency vehicular access point will also be provided from Stocking Avenue, to the northeast of the site, facilitating access for emergency vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists. There will be an additional 3 no. pedestrian / cyclist access points from Stocking Avenue and 1 no. pedestrian / cyclist access points from White Pines Park on the western boundary of the site. The proposed development will also include piped infrastructure, 1 no. ESB sub station, public lighting, bin stores, green roofs on apartment buildings, rooftop PV panels on block A, boundary treatments and provision of public and private open space including hard and soft landscaping and all other associated site development works above and below ground level.

  Permission, 75 homes · South Dublin County Council, SD23A/0260

• 31 Oct 2023Grant permission & grant retention

  Retention permission consists of the construction of a single-storey extension to the south-east and south-west of the existing main house. The development requesting permission consists of the construction of a first-floor extension over existing ground-floor extension to the south-east and south-west of the existing main house as well as the construction of two single-storey porches to the south-west of the main house.

  Permission and retention · South Dublin County Council, SD23B/0460

• 17 Aug 2023Grant permission

  Planning permission for an attic conversion into non habitable Storage space with dormer to rear roof, small dormer to front roof and window to gable side with all associated ancillary works

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD23B/0355

• 9 Jun 2023Request additional information

  To request approval to extend existing side garden wall of house for safety reasons.

  Declaration of exemption sect. 5 · South Dublin County Council, ED23/0023

• 7 Feb 2023Grant permission

  The development will consist/consists of first floor side extension with pitched and hipped roof over with roof light on front slope, rear slope and hipped roof side

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD23B/0042

• 2 Nov 2022Grant permission

  Attic Conversion for storage with dormer window to the rear, with velux window to the front.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD22B/0478

• 12 Sept 2022Grant permission

  The development will consist of changes to the existing dwelling including: (a) removal of existing kitchen window replaced with a larger kitchen window to the front elevation on the first floor. (b) upgrade works to the existing bay window on the front elevation on the first floor incorporating a new standing metal fascia and soffit. (c) removal of the existing chimney on the side elevation (d) removal of the existing sliding door on the rear elevation replaced with a new window and (e) the removal of the existing window on the rear elevation, replace with a larger door all together with associated site works.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD22B/0405

• 30 Aug 2022Refuse permission

  Garage conversion for extended living for an additional bedroom. With new window to the front elevation

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD22B/0385

The 25 most recent of over 100 applications.

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 Woodtown.

Recorded monuments

• DU025-002 Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
  Description

  Situated on sloping pasture above the Owendoher river valley. A single chambered tomb facing NW is formed by a massive granite roofstone (L 6.3m; Wth 3.15m; D 1.3m) which rests on a broken portal (H 2.44m). The other portal lies close by (L 4.4m; Wth 1.1m) (Borlase 1897, 2, 282-5; Ó Nualláin 1983, 82, 90; Turner 1983, No. 6). A drawing by Gabriel Beranger (1781) shows more stones around the monument than there are today (Ball 1906, 48-9). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 7 July 2018

• DU025-087 Cursus
  Description

  Situated on a gentle E facing slope in undulating pasture. A cursus consisting of a u-shaped earthwork is visible on an aerial photograph aligned approximately NW–SE; the curve of the U is at the SE. It is defined by a low bank and external fosse that encloses an area c. 125m by 45m. The precise nature of this earthwork is unknown and the possibility that it could be the remnants of a cursus-type monument cannot be excluded. DU025-087----_01.jpg: Oblique view of the earthwork from the S on Google maps. Compiled by: Paul Walsh and Padraig Clancy Date of upload: 15 April 2015

Architectural heritage

• Woodtown Park, farm house, 1825–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over basement country house, c.1830, containing fabric of former farm house, c.1700. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Full-height bow to north-west side. Timber sash windows throughout. Projecting Doric tetrastyle porch with full entablature and timber panelled door. Hipped slate roofs behind parapet. Rendered chimney stacks. Stable courtyard to south-west, entered through carriageway, with a range of outbuildings including façade of former stables and single-storey polygonal building with original timber casement windows in ogee openings.

• Woodtown Park, gate lodge, 1825–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey classical style gate lodge, c.1830, with shallow central pedimented breakfront. Refurbished and extended, c.1990. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with granite entablature. Square granite columns to corners of original building. Granite pediment and columns to breakfront. Replacement timber sash windows. Replacement timber panelled door. Hipped slate roof with central rendered chimney stack. Extension to rere in a similar style. Set inside entrance screen comprising cast-iron gates and gate posts, flanking stone piers and rendered walls.

• Woodtown Manor, country house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey country house, c.1700, on a rectangular plan originally three-bay two-storey with two-bay two-storey flush end bays. Extended, c.1830. Sold, 1996. Hipped and bow-ended slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks on slate hung bases having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered red brick header bond eaves. Roughcast walls on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on plinth. Segmental-headed central door opening with five cut-granite steps, cut-granite block-and-start surround centred on keystone framing glazed timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (ground floor) or six-over-three (first floor) timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement (west) with cut-granite sills, timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (ground floor) or six-over-three (first floor) timber sash windows having two-over-two (ground floor) or two-over-one (first floor) sidelights. Set in landscaped grounds.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, 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_3184 (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.

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

Name

Woodtown · Baile na Coille

Area

2,014,674 m² (201.47 ha, 497.84 acres)

Civil parish

Cruagh, and its townlands

Barony

Uppercross

Electoral division

Firhouse-Ballycullen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Firhouse-Ballycullen electoral division: 10,522 people in 3,313 households; 80% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 2% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycullen, Killakee, Mountpelier, Newtown, Oldcourt, Orlagh, Scholarstown

Placenames

Woodtown 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.