Salmon

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Salmon, from 1,402 m² to 1,012,977 m² (101.3 ha, 250.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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.

• P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 21 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 · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 11 Dec 2024Grant permission

  A horse training facility comprising of a 20 horse stables barn with a

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/1119E

• 3 Dec 2024Invalid application

  A horse training facility comprising of a 20 horse stable barn with as

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/1078E

• 17 Feb 2015Grant permission

  The reclamation of land to agricultural land by the deposition of iner

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F14A/0356

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 Salmon.

Recorded monuments

• DU005-080 Enclosure
  Description

  A central enclosure (diam. c. 25m E-W) surrounded by a series of outer enclosing features and with a field system (DU005-081----) adjoining the outer boundaries visible on Bing Imagery (captured between 13 July 2011 & 27 October 2012) (pers. comm. T. Condit). Located on arable land west of farmhouse that slopes upwards to south. High point in gently undulating landscape. No visible remains. Compiled by: Claire Breen Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 15 November 2014

• DU005-081 Field system
  Description

  An irregular shaped field system adjoining the outer boundaries of an enclosure (DU005-080----) visible on Bing Imagery (captured between 13 July 2011 & 27 October 2012) (pers. comm. T. Condit). Located on arable land west of farmhouse that slopes upwards to south. High point in gently undulating landscape. No visible remains. Compiled by: Claire Breen Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 15 November 2014

• DU005-092 Ring-ditch
  Description

  A possible circular ring-ditch visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). located in a gently undulating arable landscape. No visible remains. Compiled by: David O’Connor Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 16 November 2014

• DU005-093 Ring-ditch
  Description

  A circular ring-ditch visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Located in gently undulating arable landscape. No visible remains. Compiled by: David O’Connor Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 16 November 2014

• DU005-094 Ring-ditch
  Description

  A circular ring-ditch visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph together with other features that could indicate a possible field system (DU005-095----) (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Located on relatively high land south of farmhouse within a gently undulating landscape. Compiled by: David O’Connor Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 16 November 2014

• DU005-095 Field system
  Description

  A possible field system visible as a crop mark on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Ring-ditch DU005-094---- is located within the same field (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). Located on relatively high land south of farmhouse within gently undulating arable landscape. No visible remains. See attached Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 Compiled by: David O’Connor Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 16 November 2014

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Salmon.

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 Salmon, 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

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

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

Name

Salmon · Saman

Area

1,014,439 m² (101.44 ha, 250.67 acres)

Civil parish

Balrothery, and its townlands

Barony

Balrothery East

Electoral division

Balbriggan Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

19,347 people lived in 6,127 households in the Balbriggan Rural electoral division. 60% of households owned their home. 74% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Courtlough, Darcystown, Killalane, Palmerstown

Placenames

Salmon 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.