Greenfields
Greenfields is a townland in the civil parish of Swords, barony of Nethercross, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is Na Goirt Ghlasa.
Parcel 1831026
- Area
- 1,102 m²
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 271 m².
- Zoning
- M1 MRE - Metro and Rail Economic Corridor (The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029) The objective
- Townland
- Greenfields
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 gives no landslide susceptibility class here. Parts of the land are made ground.
- 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
- 22.7 ha
- 56 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 3,954 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres)
- Zoning
- M1
- MRE - Metro and Rail Economic Corridor
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greenfields, from 6 m² to 50,934 m² (5.09 ha, 12.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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
- M1MRE - Metro and Rail Economic Corridor (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 19 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3HA - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 8 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 · 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
27 Aug 2026Referral
Retention Permission for the detached single storey office building.
Retention · Fingal County Council, F26A/0778E
31 Jul 2026Invalid application
Retention permission for the detached single storey office building
Retention · Fingal County Council, F26A/0685E
8 Jul 2026Request additional information
Permission is sought for a mixed-use development with a gross floor ar
Lrd application · Fingal County Council, LRD0066/S3E
4 Dec 2023Grant permission
Permission is sought for the removal of part of Condition 1 of
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0578
29 Nov 2022Grant permission
The development of grid connection infrastructure to connect the appro
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0365
13 Jun 2022Grant permission
The installation of a photovoltaic solar array to be mounted on the ro
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0299
5 May 2022Grant permission & grant retention
The retention permission of illuminated fascia signage to the front (s
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F22A/0230
5 Jun 2019Grant permission
Development of a single storey warehouse/light industrial unit. The d
Permission · Fingal County Council, F18A/0754
17 Jan 2019Grant permission for retention
Alterations to existing warehouse consisting of (a) increase in intern
Retention · Fingal County Council, F19A/0014
17 Aug 2017Grant permission
Alterations to existing warehouse consisting of (a) remodelling of exi
Permission · Fingal County Council, F17A/0496
10 Feb 2014Grant permission & grant retention
Change of use of the existing ground floor office area to warehouse an
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F14A/0048
12 Jul 2012Grant permission
Removal of Condition no. 2 of Planning Permission, Reg. Ref. F08A/1056
Permission · Fingal County Council, F12A/0217
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
- Special Protection Area: Malahide Estuary SPA 004025
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Malahide Estuary 000205
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Greenfields.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Greenfields.
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 Greenfields, 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, partly inferred. 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 Greenfields.
- 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 Greenfields with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Greenfields · Na Goirt Ghlasa
- Area
- 226,633 m² (22.66 ha, 56 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
- Mantua, Seatown East, Seatown West, Swords Demesne
- Placenames
- Greenfields 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.