Horestown

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Horestown, from 62,668 m² (6.27 ha, 15.49 acres) to 263,433 m² (26.34 ha, 65.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 2 Oct 2024Grant permission

  Planning permission is sought for construction of new agricultural gla

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0881E

• 25 Sept 2024Invalid application

  Planning permission is sought for construction of new agricultural gla

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0861E

• 12 Mar 2021Grant permission

  Permission is sought for alterations to previously approved applicatio

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F21A/0144

• 26 Jun 2019Grant permission

  Construction of new agricultural glasshouses, agricultural pack house,

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F19A/0271

• 16 Apr 2018Refuse permission for retention

  Retention of existing 128 sq.m. metal clad machinery workshop, 5.2m hi

  Retention · Fingal County Council, F18A/0189

• 11 Dec 2015Grant permission

  Construction of new agricultural poly-tunnels, rainwater harvesting sy

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F15A/0579

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 the townland of Horestown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Horestown.

Architectural heritage

• Horestone House, farm house, 1910–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, c.1920, retaining original fenestration to first floor. Single-bay two-storey lean-to return to north. Outbuildings, greenhouse and entrance gateway to site.ROOF: Hipped slate with red clay ridge tiles, red brick chimneys and cast-iron rainwater goods. WALLS: Roughcast rendered with nap rendered plinth, red brick moulded cornice and red brick quoins. OPENINGS: Original timber sash windows to first floor and timber casement window c.1980 to ground floor, with red brick block-and-start surrounds and granite sills. Segmental headed door opening with red brick pilaster doorcase, having limestone ashlar curvilinear pediment on fluted consoles. Timber panelled door, c.1980, with side lights and top light.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Horestown.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.

No address of the register names Horestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Horestown · Baile an Óraigh

Area

331,596 m² (33.16 ha, 81.94 acres)

Civil parish

Lusk, and its townlands

Barony

Balrothery East

Electoral division

Lusk, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lusk electoral division: 10,774 people in 3,341 households; 78% of households own their home; 62% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Haystown, Kingstown, Rathartan, Rush, Tyrrelstown Big, Tyrrelstown Little

Placenames

Horestown 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.