Windmill Lands

705 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Windmill Lands, from 1 m² to 69,957 m² (7 ha, 17.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 54 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2RS - Residential (Existing residential)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 687 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 · 33 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4OS - Open Space (Active open space)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3CI - Community Infrastructure (Community facilities)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M4MC - Major Town Centre (Built up area)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

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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 Windmill Lands.

Recorded monuments

• DU011-033 Windmill
  Description

  Located on raised grassland North of the Ward River.This windmill is shown on Rocques map (1760) (Ní Ghabhláin 1987, 114). It is marked as 'windmill stump' on the 1st edition OS 6-inch map. Site now built over with a housing estate. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 05 January 2015

• DU011-034019 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Identified by geophysical survey (Licence no. 13R075) and confirmed by test excavation (Licence no. 13E0267) this monument consists of a circular ditch (c. 20m) with an entrance to the east. Truncated by the widening of Church road to the south, the ditch (c. 2m wide) is associated with pits and areas of burning both internally and externally. Two ditches c. 30m to the N and E of the ring ditch may form an associated enclosing element (O’Donovan 2013, 29). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 4 February 2015

• DU011-034020 Midden
  Description

  Test excavation (Licence no. 08E0058) was undertaken in advance of a proposed development on lands immediately S of Church road which forms part of St Colmcille’s ecclesiastical enclosure (DU011-034002). It revealed two shell middens associated with a fragment of worked antler which were identified and interpreted as indicative of occupation in the early medieval period (Myles 2008, 11). Compiled by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 4 February 2015

• DU011-090 Burial
  Description

  In 1999 a human skull was exposed in the bank of the Ward river. This lay within an extensive midden that was exposed for at least c. 40m along the riverbank. The articulated remains of six individuals were discovered associated with late 13th and early 14th century pottery (Brady, & Kelleher 2000, 94). In 2020 erosion of the riverbank exposed further skeletal material c.4m south-west. A trench measuring c.7sq m was opened, centred on an exposed skeleton which was fully excavated. This was a juvenile skeleton aged between 9-11 years at time of death. A radiocarbon date of 1045-1225calAD (UBA-43540, 883±29 BP) was returned. Another burial was partially exposed and preserved in situ. Two possible grave cuts with no associated surface bone present were also recorded and preserved in situ (McCormick 2020). Geophysical survey (20R0098) was undertaken in an attempt to define the extent of the site but did not yield any useful results. The exposed riverbank has been subject to protection works funded by the Community Monuments Fund 2021. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Christine Baker Date of revised upload: 8 November 2021

Architectural heritage

• House, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay three-storey rubble stone built house, c.1820, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay three-storey return to rear. Re-roofed and refenestrated, c.1980.ROOF: Double-pitched; replacement fibre-cement tiles; concrete ridge tiles; roughcast over red brick chimney stacks; red clay pots; cast-iron rainwater goods. WALLS: Random coursed rubble stone to front elevation; roughcast to side elevations and return; unpainted. OPENINGS: Shallow segmental-headed openings; granite sills; red brick dressings; replacement timber casement windows; replacement timber panelled door.

• Glenview House, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over part-raised basement house, c.1830, retaining original fenestration to ground floor. Central entrance approached by flight of steps, and single-bay single-storey canted bay windows to basement level. Renovated and extended to rear, c.1960, comprising two-bay two-story flat-roofed return. Partly refenestrated, c.1990, with first floor window opening remodelled.ROOF: Hipped; slate; concrete ridge tiles; nap rendered chimney stack to centre; overhanging timber eaves consoles; cast-iron rainwater goods; flat-roof to return. WALLS: Nap rendered; painted; raised nap rendered quoins to corners. OPENINGS: Segmental headed window openings to ground floor within segmental headed relieving arches; concrete sills; vermiculated keystones; 6/6 timber sash windows; replacement timber windows, to basement level; square headed openings to first floor; remodelled, c.1990; concrete sills; replacement uPVC windows; square headed door opening with segmental-headed relieving arch; replacement timber panelled door; fanlight within rectangular frame; prostyle diastyle open gable-fronted portico, c.1990, added to front.

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 Windmill Lands, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Windmill Lands with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Windmill Lands · Fearann an Mhuilinn Ghaoithe

Area

641,957 m² (64.2 ha, 158.63 acres)

Civil parish

Swords, and its townlands

Barony

Nethercross

Electoral division

Swords-Glasmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

7,674 people lived in 2,481 households in the Swords-Glasmore electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 12% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brazil, Commons West, Forrestfields, Hilltown, Miltonsfields, Mooretown, Newtown, Swords Glebe, Townparks

Placenames

Windmill Lands 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.