Mallahow

Area

1,101,374 m² (110.14 ha, 272.16 acres)

Buildings

9 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,788 m².

Zoning

P1 RU - Rural (The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029) The objective
G3 HA - High Amenity (The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029) The objective

Townland

Mallahow

Planning applications on this parcel

• 23 Jul 2015Grant permission

  Two storey house with single storey sun room to the side

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F15A/0188

• 13 Feb 2012Grant permission

  A traditional two storey house and single storey sunroom to the side u

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F11A/0354

• 24 Feb 2011App. withdrawn as no c.ai recd in 6 mths

  Construction of a two storey dwelling of 556m² floor area on a site of

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F10A/0376

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

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 10 recorded monuments.

• DU004-049 Field system
  Description

  A field system spread over a wide area visible as crop marks on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). See attached Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 Compiled by: David O’Connor Date of upload: 4 November 2013

• DU004-051 Enclosure
  Description

  A circular enclosure visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph together with other features that could indicate a possible field system (DU004-053----). A further enclosure is located to the west (DU004-052----) (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Compiled by: David O’Connor Date of upload: 4 November 2013

• DU004-052 Enclosure
  Description

  A circular enclosure visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph together with other features that could indicate a possible field system (DU004-053----). A further enclosure is located to the east (DU004-051----) (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Compiled by: David O’Connor Date of upload: 4 November 2013

• DU004-053 Field system
  Description

  A field system visible as a crop mark on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 together with two circular enclosures (DU004-051---- & DU004-052----) (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). See attached Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 Compiled by: David O’Connor Date of upload: 4 November 2013

• DU004-071002 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Geophysical survey (Licence no. 13R083) was undertaken at the site by the Discovery Programme as part of the ‘Late Iron Age and “Roman” Ireland’ project. Located downslope of ring ditch (DU004-071001-) this site is defined by a pennanular ring (c.5m diam.) with a single pit-type response internally (Dowling 2015, 7). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 6 February 2015

• DU004-071003 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Geophysical survey (Licence no. 13R083) was undertaken at the site by the Discovery Programme as part of the ‘Late Iron Age and “Roman” Ireland’ project. Located southeast of ring ditch (DU004-071002-) this site is defined by a pennanular ring (c.8m diam.) with a single pit-type response internally (Dowling 2015, 7). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 6 February 2015

• DU004-109 Quarry
  Description

  Historic quarry located 150m N of Mallahow House.  Roughly rectangular-shaped quarry (approx. dims. 55m N-S x 40m E-W)  second quarry (DU004-110----) 215m to the SE depicted on the 1837 ed. OSi six-inch map.  Annotated ‘Quarry (Disused)’ on the OSi 25-inch map.  Depicted as a hachured area on the last edition of the OSi six-inch map.  Visible as an area of trees on the 2013-18 MapGenie orthoimage. Annotated ‘quarry’ on Rocque's 1760 map of County Dublin.   Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

• DU004-110 Quarry
  Description

  Historic quarry located 130m ESE of Mallahow House.  Roughly semi-circular-shaped quarry (approx. dims. 80m N-S x 60m E-W)  second quarry (DU004-109----) 215m to the NW depicted on the 1837 ed. OSi six-inch map.  On the 1837 ed OSi six-inch map the crescent shaped quarry is accessed from a roadway on the S leading off the public road 45m to the S.  Annotated ‘Quarry (Disused)’ on the OSi 25-inch map.  Depicted as a hachured area on the last edition of the OSi six-inch map.  Visible as a grove of trees on the 2013-18 MapGenie orthoimage. Annotated ‘quarry’ on Rocque's 1760 map of County Dublin. Both quarries in the townland of Mallahow are depicted at these locations on Rocque's 1760 Map of County Dublin.   Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

• LH024-081 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a fairly steep S-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) defined by a single fosse (Wth c. 2-4m) is visible only on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. It is cut by the cropmark of an E-W field drain (Wth c. 8m) N of the centre, and there could be an entrance (Wth c. 5m) at S. It was first reported by Anthony Murphy. See the attached enhanced aerial view from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 January 2020

• LH024-082 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a shelf on a S-facing slope. The cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 43m NNE-SSW; c. 32m WNW-ESE) defined by a single fosse feature (Wth c. 2m) is visible only on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. There is a second outer fosse c. 3m outside the defining feature around the curved part SE-SW, and a larger enclosure defined by the cropmarks of similar fosses could be attached to the E. Its full extent is not known as only the features approaching from the NE and SE are visible. It was first reported by Anthony Murphy. See the enhanced aerial view attached from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 January 2020

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 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

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.

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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.