Seatown East
Seatown East is a townland in the civil parish of Swords, barony of Nethercross, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is Baile na Mara Thoir.
Parcel 1821650
- Area
- 133 m²
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- The zoning service did not answer.
- Townland
- Seatown East
Planning applications on this parcel
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Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Designated sites
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Malahide Estuary 000205
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- DU012-021 Castle - tower house
Description
Located on the south side of Malahide estuary. Incorporated into east end of the northern range of farm buildings at Seatown House. Survives to two storeys with modern pitched roof (ext dims. L8.6m, Wth 6.8m N-S). It is built of coursed rubble masonry with dressed quoins on the SE and SW corners. Only the lower courses of the first floor walls are original, the upper portion is a later addition of 19th century date. Entered through lintelled doorway in the E wall. There is a round barrel vault over the ground floor with wicker - centring (int. dims. L 5.4m; Wth 4.4m). The interior is lit by a pointed arched opening in the N end of the E wall and a deep, square-headed window in N wall. The original entrance to the tower-house would have been situated in the W wall indicated by the presence of a murder hole in the corbelled roof of the lobby (Pers com Kieran Campbell). Two stones of the arch of the original doorway survive. Plain windows have been inserted into the first floor. A spiral stairs in the NW angle provides access to first floor. This is an intra-mural stairs accomodated in the thickness of the N wall. The stairs and roof have been replaced by a modern construction. The entrance is a pointed arched opening. Described in the Civil survey (1654-6) as a small old castle with a hall adjoining, both thatched (Simington RC 1945, 102). Monitoring (Licence no. 05E0725) took place iduring groundworks associated with the conversion to a dwelling of a two-storey barn attached to the west side of Seatown Castle. An assemblage of mid- to late 18th-century pottery recovered during monitoring gave a secure date for the house on the west side of the castle. A glazed roof ridge tile may have come from the castle or the old hall, of which no trace was seen. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 16 January 2015
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
- The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of this parcel.
- 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
- 91.8 ha
- 227 acres
- Land parcels
- 51
- registered freehold, median 2,227 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- HA - High Amenity
- Planning
- —
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Seatown East, from 15 m² to 170,917 m² (17.09 ha, 42.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 54 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
- G3HA - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 41 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2RS - Residential (Existing residential)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 24 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3GB - Green Belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 20 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M1MRE - Metro and Rail Economic Corridor (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 11 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
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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
- Special Area of Conservation: Malahide Estuary SAC 000205
Recorded monuments
- DU012-021 Castle - tower house
Description
Located on the south side of Malahide estuary. Incorporated into east end of the northern range of farm buildings at Seatown House. Survives to two storeys with modern pitched roof (ext dims. L8.6m, Wth 6.8m N-S). It is built of coursed rubble masonry with dressed quoins on the SE and SW corners. Only the lower courses of the first floor walls are original, the upper portion is a later addition of 19th century date. Entered through lintelled doorway in the E wall. There is a round barrel vault over the ground floor with wicker - centring (int. dims. L 5.4m; Wth 4.4m). The interior is lit by a pointed arched opening in the N end of the E wall and a deep, square-headed window in N wall. The original entrance to the tower-house would have been situated in the W wall indicated by the presence of a murder hole in the corbelled roof of the lobby (Pers com Kieran Campbell). Two stones of the arch of the original doorway survive. Plain windows have been inserted into the first floor. A spiral stairs in the NW angle provides access to first floor. This is an intra-mural stairs accomodated in the thickness of the N wall. The stairs and roof have been replaced by a modern construction. The entrance is a pointed arched opening. Described in the Civil survey (1654-6) as a small old castle with a hall adjoining, both thatched (Simington RC 1945, 102). Monitoring (Licence no. 05E0725) took place iduring groundworks associated with the conversion to a dwelling of a two-storey barn attached to the west side of Seatown Castle. An assemblage of mid- to late 18th-century pottery recovered during monitoring gave a secure date for the house on the west side of the castle. A glazed roof ridge tile may have come from the castle or the old hall, of which no trace was seen. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 16 January 2015
- DU012-098 Ring-ditch
Description
Located in a large arable field, c. 412m SSW of Seatown Castle (DU012-021----) and c. 500m SSW of the Irish Sea coastline. A ring-ditch is clearly visible on Google Earth imagery (4 July 2008 and 2 June 2016). It consists of a circular feature (ext. diam. c. 11.2m) defined by a ditch (Wth c. 1.5m). There are no indications of an entrance gap across the ditch. Compiled by: Tom Condit Uploaded on: 27 April 2021
- DU012-136 Earthwork
Description
In tillage field. Cropmark of circular-shaped area defined by the cropmark of a ditch visible on Apple Maps orthoimage. See attached orthoimage Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 24 January 2023
- DU012-137 Earthwork
Description
In tillage field. Cropmark of circular-shaped area defined by the cropmark of a ditch visible on Apple Maps orthoimage. See attached orthoimage Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 24 January 2023
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Seatown East.
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 Seatown East, 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. Parts of the land are made ground.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Seatown East.
- 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 Seatown East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Seatown East · Baile na Mara Thoir
- Area
- 917,944 m² (91.79 ha, 226.83 acres)
- Civil parish
- Swords, and its townlands
- Barony
- Nethercross
- Electoral division
- Swords-Seatown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 7,465 people lived in 2,480 households in the Swords-Seatown electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drinan, Greenfields, Mountgorry, Swords Demesne, Yellow Walls
- Placenames
- Seatown East 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.