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Beechwood

Beechwood is a townland in the civil parish of Portmarnock, barony of Coolock, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is Coill na Feá.

Parcel 1816253

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BeechwoodSainthelensGrange
100 m
33 parcels are drawn. Click one to see it.© Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0
Area
4,301 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres)
Buildings
No building touches it.
Zoning
G3 GB - Green Belt (The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029) The objective
G4 OS - Open Space (The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029) The objective
Townland
Beechwood

Planning applications on this parcel

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
At the centre of this parcel, 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
97.7 ha
242 acres
Land parcels
54
registered freehold, median 3,508 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres)
Zoning
G3
GB - Green Belt
Planning
31
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

BeechwoodSainthelensCarrickhillBurrowHazelbrookGrangeKinsaleyPortmarnock
500 m
95 parcels are drawn. Click one to see it. Tailte Éireann did not answer, so these are not drawn: the buildings.© Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Beechwood, from 71 m² to 456,151 m² (45.62 ha, 112.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 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

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

Planning applications

Sites that touch the townland, newest first

The 25 most recent of 31 applications.

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

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Beechwood.

Architectural heritage

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

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
At the centre of the townland of Beechwood, 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 low, partly inferred.
Terrain model
LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3305 (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.

Homes sold

Property Price Register

The townland

Name
Beechwood · Coill na Feá
Area
977,494 m² (97.75 ha, 241.54 acres)
Civil parish
Portmarnock, and its townlands
Barony
Coolock
Electoral division
Portmarnock South, the unit of the census
Census 2022
4,729 people lived in 1,757 households in the Portmarnock South electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Carrickhill, Grange, Hazelbrook, Portmarnock, Sainthelens
Placenames
Beechwood 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.