Blanchardstown
Blanchardstown is a townland in the civil parish of Castleknock, barony of Castleknock, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is Baile Bhlainséir.
Parcel 1896684
- Area
- 231 m²
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 143 m².
- Zoning
- R2 RS - Residential (The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029) The objective
- Townland
- Blanchardstown
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 rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3083 (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.
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
- 183.3 ha
- 453 acres
- Land parcels
- —
- more than 2,000
- Zoning
- R2
- RS - Residential
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
More than 2,000 parcels touch this townland. The map cannot draw that many.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2RS - Residential (Existing residential)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal The zoning objective in the plan - M2TC - Town and District Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal The zoning objective in the plan - M4MC - Major Town Centre (Built up area)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal The zoning objective in the plan - G3HA - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal The zoning objective in the plan - S3CI - Community Infrastructure (Community facilities)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal The zoning objective in the plan - G4OS - Open Space (Active open space)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal The zoning objective in the plan - M3LC - Local Centre (District, neighbourhood centre)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal The zoning objective in the plan - C3HT - High Technology (Office, business/technology park and related)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal 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
No planning application touches the townland of Blanchardstown 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103
Recorded monuments
- DU013-035 Mill - unclassified
Description
Named 'corn mill' on the 1837 OS 6-inch map. This 19th century, four bay, three storey mill probably occupies the site of an earlier mill. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as 'one waste mill' belonging to Simon Luttrell (Simington 1945, 242). Test excavation (Licence no. 08E0147) was undertaken in the vicinity in advance of the Blanchardstown Regional Water Scheme but no archaeological remains were identified. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 20 January 2015
Architectural heritage
- Saint Brigid's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay gable-fronted Catholic church, built 1858. Three-bay side elevation to nave, with single-bay three-stage bell tower and spire to west. Single-bay sacristy to east and two single-bay entrance porches to north elevation. Curved extension with additional two-bay extension to south elevation.ROOF: Double pitched; slate; cast-iron rainwater goods; hipped polychromatic slates and tiles to spire; limestone coping having cross apex. WALLS: Rough cast rendered; nap rendered quoins. OPENINGS: Gothic arch windows; nap rendered surrounds and cills; limestone mullions; replacement timber doors; blind arched openings to front gable. INTERIOR:Single cell interior; rib vaulted ceiling with Romanesque style corbels; panelled timber gallery resting on cast-iron columns; stained glass windows, c.1880; Gothic arched niches to altar; timber wainscoting; moulded cill course.
- Granard Bridge, bridge, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch ashlar granite humpback road bridge over canal, c.1810.
- Talbot Bridge, bridge, 1815–1825 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch ashlar granite and limestone humpback rad bridge over canal, built 1819. Limestone name and date plaque. Pair of lock gates to west. Road diverted; bridge now pedestrianised.
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 Blanchardstown, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3118 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Blanchardstown, Dublin 1511 sales
The townland
- Name
- Blanchardstown · Baile Bhlainséir
- Area
- 1,832,578 m² (183.26 ha, 452.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castleknock, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castleknock
- Electoral division
- Blanchardstown-Roselawn, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,647 people lived in 656 households in the Blanchardstown-Roselawn electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 8% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Abbotstown, Carpenterstown, Castleknock, Coolmine, Corduff, Deanestown, Dunsink, Sheepmoor
- Placenames
- Blanchardstown 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.