Effelstown

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Effelstown, from 454 m² to 82,582 m² (8.26 ha, 20.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 49 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R3RC - Rural Cluster (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 4 Sept 2026Referral

  Planning Permission for New Detached Two Storey and One Storey House a

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0807E

• 27 Aug 2026Invalid application

  Planning Permission for new detached two storey and one storey house a

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0780E

• 25 Apr 2024Refuse permission

  Conversion of existing garage to granny flat, to include new single st

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0386E

• 12 Apr 2024Invalid application

  Conversion of existing garage to granny flat, to include new single st

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0336E

• 21 Mar 2022Grant permission

  Permission to extend the previously granted dwelling house under F93A/

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0370

• 8 Jun 2012Grant extension of duration of perm.

  Steel framed agricultural shed for machinery and vegetable storage usi

  Extension of duration of permission · Fingal County Council, F07A/1158/E1

• 30 May 2012Grant permission

  Development of a 1-2 storey dwellingon a site of 0.23 hectares, compri

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F12A/0068

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 Effelstown.

Recorded monuments

• DU008-011 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in level field immediately W of railway. Northern field boundary, well established hedge line is a townland boundary. An aerial photograph taken in 1972 (FSI 578/7) shows a circular cropmark of a levelled enclosure (diam c. 35m). Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 15 December 2014

Architectural heritage

• Rush and Lusk Railway Station, railway station, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey railway station, c.1850, with gabled entrance bay and three-bay single-storey extension to left-hand side. Timber canopies with decorative eaves supported by red brick walls to both platforms, which are linked by a cast-iron pedestrian bridge. Stone and cast-iron road bridge and red brick outbuilding to site.ROOF: Double pitched to ticket office; asbestos concrete tiles; red brick corniced chimneys; terracotta ridging; timber barge boards; finial to gable; flat felted roofs to canopies; corrugated iron roof to outbuilding. WALLS: Nap rendered; handmade red brick with original pointing to platform canopies; painted to front. OPENINGS: Square headed; rendered reveals; painted stone cills; uPVC casement frames; square headed doorcase; glazed panels flanking double doors; arched openings on platform walls with replacement timber doors.

• Farmyard complex, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex with group of single- and two-storey stable and farm buildings, c.1850, with random rubble walls having red brick dressings.ROOF: Double pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles; skylight to front pitch; double pitched roof with red curved tiled to singe-storey building right of the house; double pitched slate coach house and stables roof; red brick chimney stack to coach house. WALLS: Random rubble walls. OPENINGS: Cambered headed window openings with red brick dressings; segmental headed carriage arch opening; tongue and grooved timber panelled doors to coach house; timber casements and timber and glazed door to house, c.1990.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Effelstown.

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

Name

Effelstown · Baile Eifil

Area

342,177 m² (34.22 ha, 84.55 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

Beau, Bishopland, Kingstown, Lusk, Raheny, Rathartan, Rogerstown, Whitestown

Placenames

Effelstown 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.