Westpalstown

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Westpalstown, from 79 m² to 422,525 m² (42.25 ha, 104.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 57 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C7RB - Rural Business (Other commerce/industrial/enterprise uses)
  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.

• 12 Aug 2026Referral

  (i) the construction of an agribusiness production, processing, packag

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0725E

• 27 Feb 2026Grant permission

  Uisce Eireann intend to apply for planning permission for development

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0142E

• 9 Jan 2026Invalid application due to site notice

  Uisce Eireann intend to apply for planning permission for development

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0005E

• 19 Dec 2025Invalid application

  Uisce Eireann intend to apply for planning permission for development

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/1198E

• 30 Jan 2023Grant permission

  The development will consist of the renovation,

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0485

• 20 Sept 2022Grant permission

  Installation of solar panels in two phases, with phase 1 on the existi

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0501

• 20 Apr 2022Grant permission

  Permission for 1) Demolition of existing storage shed, 2) Construction

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0504

• 10 Jul 2019Grant permission

  The development will consist of renovations and a single storey extens

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F18B/0286

• 7 Mar 2019Grant permission

  A single storey domestic extension & alteration works (c.45.5m²) to th

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F19B/0057

• 20 Nov 2017Grant permission

  The construction of an extension to an agricultural building permitted

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F17A/0709

• 7 Apr 2017Grant permission

  The construction of an agricultural building, attenuation surface wate

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F16A/0552

• 16 Apr 2015Refuse permission

  Two storey detached dwelling, utilisation of and upgrades to existing

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F15A/0157

• 12 Nov 2013Refuse ext. of duration of permission

  Amendments to previously approved dwelling (planning reg ref F08A/1398

  Extension of duration of permission · Fingal County Council, F09A/0395/E1

• 7 Aug 2012Grant permission

  A single storey domestic extension and alteration works (c.23.8 sq.m.)

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F12B/0061

• 6 Jul 2011Grant permission

  The construction of a potato storage shed 4334 sq.m. ridge height 9.32

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F11A/0143

• 26 Jan 2011Grant permission for retention

  7.41m² boiler room to west side of garage at ground floor, elevational

  Retention · Fingal County Council, F10A/0491

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 Westpalstown.

Recorded monuments

• DU007-008001 Church
  Description

  Located a field set back from the Ballyboughal road. Westpalstown church ruins stand in N quadrant of a rectangular graveyard enclosed by hedgerow. In 1615, the Royal Visitation of Dublin recorded that in the Deanery of Garristown that Westpalstown Church was served by the curate, Nicholas Bacon, the chancel was in ruin (Ronan 1941, 23). In 1630, Archbishop Bulkeley’s Visitation of Dublin, recorded that Westpalstown; ‘is an impropriation. John Weston of Dublin is farmer. The tythes are usually sett for a hundred barrels of corne per annum. William Tedder is curate, and hath but xxxtie or xl tie shillings a-yeare for servinge the cure. The church and chauncell is downe. The parishioners all are recusants saving one man called Thomas Millinton. They resort to Mass to the howse of the Lady Dowager of Howth. The Mass-preists name is Roger Begg' (Ronan 1941, 68-9). Church ruins described in 1887 as; 'It would very difficult to say from existing remains what were the original style and shape of this church. Great blocks of rugged masonry, covered heavily with ivy, suggest there was once a large building here' (Walsh 1888, 246). The remains of the late medieval parish church comprise the lower courses of a plain rectangular building (int. dims. 17.4m E-W x 6m N-S) built of randomly coursed masonry (H 0.85m) with dressed quoins used at the nave end. This is the church at Westpalstown described as 'the walls of ye parish church' in the 1654-56 Civil Survey of Dublin (Simington 1945, 42). A former division between nave and chancel is indicated by the presence of two openings on the N side of the church. The W doorway has a round arch and chamfered jambs. There is a door rebate in the E opening. In the E end of the S wall there is a plain headless recess which is probably the remains of a piscina (Anon 1892, 182). There is a single slit ope with widely splayed embrasure in the S wall. The top of the walls are uncapped and the facades are pointed with concrete which may create internal decay. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 26 March 2023

• DU007-008003 Graveyard
  Description

  Westpalstown graveyard consists of a roughly rectangular-shaped area (dims. L 70m x Wth 60m) enclosed by a hedgerow, with ruins of the medieval church (DU007-008001-) of Westpalstown in NW corner. Situated on flat pasture with good views of the surrounding countryside. There are a considerable number of architectural fragments from the church, re-used as grave markers in the graveyard. S of the church the graves are defined by a ditched feature which runs N-S (L c. 45m), returns and then runs into a field boundary. This is probably an earlier graveyard boundary (Mc Dix 1892, 182). The graveyard was previously surveyed in 1992 (Egan). Still in use. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 4 April 2023

• DU007-028 Water mill - unclassified
  Description

  The Civil survey (1654-6) describes a mill at Westpalstown (Simington 1945, 42). This may be the same mill which is marked on Duncan's map (1821) and as 'cornmill' on the 1837 OS 6-inch map. As described in 1994 the west end of a stone-built mill survived in a farmyard where it served as a store. It was a two-storey building with a loft. The entrance was in the S wall. The interior lit by plain windows with stone sills in the west end of the south wall and at ground-floor level in the west wall. A doorway in the upper east gable gave access to the loft at the west end. Corrugated iron roof (Vernacular Buildings Survey of County Dublin 1994 (3/153)). The buidlingds depicted on the 1837 6-inch map are no longer extant. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 29 November 2014

• DU007-029001 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  Westpalstown House, a 17th century dwelling has been completely removed leaving little surface trace on the ground. According to the 1994 report the ornamental gateway to the house survived as two stone piers which incorporated many carved stone fragments (DU007-029002-) that probably originated from the nearby medieval church (DU007-008001-). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 29 November 2014

• DU007-029002 Architectural fragment
  Description

  In 1994 the ornamental gateway to Westpalstown house incorporated many carved stone fragments that probably originated from the nearby medieval church (DU007-008001-). They included chamfered window jambs, mullion fragments with glazing bars and stone rebates. No longer located. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 29 November 2014

• DU007-029003 Bridge
  Description

  The vernacular Building Survey of County Dublin in 1994 describes a stone, single-arched bridge near the entrance to Westpalstown House (3/156). There were no obvious signs of wicker centering. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• DU007-058 Ring-ditch
  Description

  A circular ring-ditch visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Located within gently undulating arable landscape. No visible remains at ground level. Compiled by: David O’Connor Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 3 December 2014

• DU007-059 Enclosure
  Description

  A circular bivallate enclosure visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph. Situated in the same field as DU007-029 (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Located in the north-east corner of a large open field that contained Westpalstown House (DU007-029001-) . The site presents as raised ground at highest point in the field with extensive views to the south and south-east. Compiled by: David O’Connor Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 3 December 2014

Architectural heritage

• Graveyard/cemetery, 1600–1700 · Regional interest
  Description

  Graveyard with various cut-stone markers from c.1650 to present. Ruin of church [SMR DU007-008001-] to site.

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 Westpalstown, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Westpalstown.

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 Westpalstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Westpalstown · Baile an Bhaspailigh

Area

1,510,947 m² (151.09 ha, 373.36 acres)

Civil parish

Westpalstown, and its townlands

Barony

Balrothery West

Electoral division

Ballyboghil, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,629 people lived in 473 households in the Ballyboghil electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnanstown, Leastown, Murragh, Newtown, Oldtown

Placenames

Westpalstown 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.