Oldorchard

457 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oldorchard, from 1 m² to 59,500 m² (5.95 ha, 14.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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.

• R2RES (Existing residential)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 455 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M3LC (District, neighbourhood centre)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1OS (Open space, park)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

No planning application touches the townland of Oldorchard 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 the townland of Oldorchard.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Oldorchard.

Architectural heritage

• Milestone/milepost, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron milestone, c.1850,set into chamfered granite pillar, all set into rubble wall. Cast characters read 'From G.P.O. 5 MILES'.

• Catholic Church of the Holy Spirit, church/chapel, 1960–1970 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached cruciform plan Catholic church, c.1965. Pre-cast concrete frame construction with infill roughcast rendered panels and stained glass windows. Concrete framed projecting confessionals to sides of nave with copper cladding. Bronze entrance doors with cast bronze relief panels, below copper-roofed concrete canopy. Similar roofs to side chapels. High pitched pantile roof with copper-clad fleche at crossing having skylights at base. Timber pews, exposed concrete frame and stained glass to interior. Church hall of similar design and materials to north.

• Riversdale House, house, 1800–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay, two-storey house, c.1830. Double pile with natural slate roof. Timber sliding sash windows. Extended to rear. Former entrance with wrought-iron gates leading to rubble arched bridge over river.

• Rosebank, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance to former house, c.1830, now demolished. Elaborate cast-iron gates with carved stone-capped rendered piers having recessed panels. Rendered, ruled and lined quadrant screen walls with stone coping and similar terminating piers. Single-storey buildings within each re-entrant corner, three-bay gate lodge with lean-to slate roof to north, outbuilding to south. Smooth rendered walls. Ogee-arched doorways with timber tongue and groove doors having iron fittings. Rough dressed blocks to parapets. Avenue carried over canalised river by single-arch stone bridge with cast-iron lancet style railings on plinth wall. Monolithic granite octagonal terminating piers with carriage lamps to west end.

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

At the centre of the townland of Oldorchard, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3183 (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.

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

Name

Oldorchard · An Seanúllord

Area

515,374 m² (51.54 ha, 127.35 acres)

Civil parish

Rathfarnham, and its townlands

Barony

Rathdown

Electoral division

Rathfarnham-Butterfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,290 people lived in 1,226 households in the Rathfarnham-Butterfield electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 12% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboden, Ballyroan, Butterfield, Rathfarnham, Willbrook

Placenames

Oldorchard 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.