Thorntown
Thorntown is a townland in the civil parish of Kilsallaghan, barony of Nethercross, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is Baile na Sceach.
Parcel 1787728
- Area
- 793 m²
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- R3 RC - Rural Cluster (The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029) The objective
P1 RU - Rural (The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029) The objective - Townland
- Thorntown
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 108.2 ha
- 267 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 3,950 m² (0.39 ha, 0.98 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- RU - Rural
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Thorntown, from 54 m² to 311,780 m² (31.18 ha, 77.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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
- P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 50 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R3RC - Rural Cluster (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 3 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
31 May 2022Grant permission
The development will consist of the extension and change of use
Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0510
5 Apr 2022Grant permission
The proposed development seeks to amend the solar farm permitted on th
Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0607
16 Apr 2018Grant permission
The provision of an ancillary vehicle parking facility to provide acce
Permission · Fingal County Council, F18A/0190
23 Feb 2018Refuse permission
Permission for (i) construction of 1 no. two storey 4 bedroom dwelling
Permission · Fingal County Council, F18A/0086
20 Sept 2017Refuse permission
Development on a site of circa 42.58 hectares. The development will c
Permission · Fingal County Council, F16A/0562
4 May 2017App withdrawn as no ai recd in 6 months
Extend the existing house to the side and to replace an existing cessp
Permission · Fingal County Council, F17A/0249
28 Nov 2016Grant permission
Demolish the existing utility room extension to the south, demolish ex
Permission · Fingal County Council, F16A/0536
6 Mar 2013Grant permission
1) To make alterations to existing 42.8 sq.m. single storey dwelling
Permission · Fingal County Council, F13A/0070
30 May 2011Grant permission
Erection of agricultural building containing 9 stables and tack room a
Permission · Fingal County Council, F10A/0436
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 Thorntown.
Recorded monuments
- DU011-094001 Enclosure
Description
In 2005 geophysical survey (Licence no. 05R023) of crest of elongated ridge under pasture revealed sub-surface remains, curvilinear enclosure with straight side along west. A linear feature probably a ditch radiates from SW angle. No visible trace on ground. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 09 January 2015
- DU011-094002 Ring-ditch
Description
In 2005 a geophysical survey (Licence no. 05R023) of the crest of an elongated ridge under pasture revealed the sub-surface remains of a ring ditch (diam. c. 10m; Clinton, M.2005). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 09 January 2015
- DU011-094003 Enclosure
Description
In 2005 geophysical survey (Licence no. 05R023) on the crest of an elongated ridge revealed an enclosure complex. In the west of the site is a subrectangular enclosure with the longer axis running E-W. Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 09 January 2015
- DU011-141 Enclosure
Description
A sub-circular enclosure with an internal circular enclosure visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Compiled by: David O’Connor Date of upload: 6 November 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Thorntown.
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
- 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, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Thorntown.
- 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 Thorntown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Thorntown · Baile na Sceach
- Area
- 1,081,961 m² (108.2 ha, 267.36 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilsallaghan, 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
- Dunmucky, Glebe, Greenoge (Co. Meath), Kilcoskan, Kilsallaghan, Newbarn, Rath (Co. Meath)
- Placenames
- Thorntown 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.