Middletown
Middletown is a townland in the civil parish of Cloghran (Coolock By), barony of Coolock, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is An Baile Meánach.
Parcel 1830766
- Area
- 2,131 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 233 m².
- Zoning
- G3 GB - Green Belt (The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029) The objective
- Townland
- Middletown
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
- 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3251 (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.
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
- 60.4 ha
- 149 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 1,915 m²
- Zoning
- G3
- GB - Green Belt
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Middletown, from 1,127 m² to 591,713 m² (59.17 ha, 146.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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
- G3GB - Green Belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 17 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
8 Apr 2015Grant permission
Aviation fuel pipeline from Dublin Port to Dublin Airport. The propos
Permission · Fingal County Council, F15A/0141
7 Mar 2012Withdraw application
Development of a parkland cemetery and associated development on a sit
Permission · Fingal County Council, F12A/0066
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 Middletown.
Recorded monuments
- DU015-008 Enclosure
Description
The site is in a field of pasture north of Middletown House. Shown on the 1837 edition OS 6-inch map as circular in plan (diam. c. 35m). Not visible at ground level. Cropmark of levelled monument shows a circular-shaped area enclosing a possible house site defined by the cropmark of a larger outer ditch that is visible visible on Apple Maps orthoimage. See attached orthoimage Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien based on orthoimage provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of revised upload: 31 January 2023
- DU015-145 Enclosure
Description
Located in a large arable field c. 725m WSW of the complex of monuments at Springhill townland centered on an enclosure (DU015-057----). An unnamed E-W running stream, a tributary of the Mayne River, is located c. 120m to S. The enclosure can be seen on Google Earth coverage (24 June 2018) where it is visible as a positive cropmark. The enclosure is circular in plan (ext. diam. c. 42.5m) defined by a ditch (Wth c. 2m). There is no clear evidence for an entrance gap through the ditch. Compiled by: Tom Condit Uploaded on: 23 April 2021
- DU015-146 Enclosure
Description
Located in a large arable field c. 1.1km WSW of the complex of monuments at Springhill townland centered on an enclosure (DU015-057---- ). An unnamed E-W running stream, a tributary of the Mayne River, is located c. 180m to S. The enclosure can be seen on Google Earth coverage (24 June 2018) and on Apple Maps imagery (June 2018) where it is visible as a positive cropmark. The site encloses a subcircular area (ext. diam. 27.4m N-S; c. 35m E-W) defined by a ditch (Wth c. 1.9m). The Apple Maps image appears to indicate the presence of two outer palisade trenches outside the S perimeter of the enclosure. There is no clear evidence for an entrance gap through the bank. Compiled by: Tom Condit Uploaded on: 23 April 2021
- DU015-151 Earthwork
Description
In tillage field, 50m E of cropmark site (DU015-145----). Cropmark of circular-shaped area (diam. c. 37m) defined by the cropmark of a ditch visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 24/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 24/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 29 May 2023
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Middletown.
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 Middletown, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3251 (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
No address of the register names Middletown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Middletown · An Baile Meánach
- Area
- 603,726 m² (60.37 ha, 149.18 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cloghran (Coolock By), and its townlands
- Barony
- Coolock
- Electoral division
- Balgriffin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 5,544 people lived in 1,238 households in the Balgriffin electoral division. 55% of households owned their home. 86% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Middletown 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.