Backstown

Area

332,092 m² (33.21 ha, 82.06 acres)

Buildings

16 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 5,037 m².

Zoning

P1 RU (South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028) The objective

Townland

Backstown

Planning applications on this parcel

• 20 May 2019Grant permission

  3 new holes comprising of new tees, fairways, greens, bunkers, pathways and other ancillary works.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD19A/0167

• 21 Dec 2017Part 8 approved by council

  The proposed Celbridge Link Road is a new two-way single carriageway road alignment linking the Adamstown SDZ lands to the Celbridge Road (R403), a distance of approximately 810m in length. The Proposed Scheme includes the following works: 1. Construction of a new two-way single carriageway road alignment linking the Adamstown SDZ lands to the Celbridge Road (R403) approx. 810m in length. 2. Construction of 810m of new footpaths and cycle tracks in both directions. 3. New signalised junction where the proposed Celbridge Link Road meets the Celbridge Road (R403). 4. New uncontrolled T-junction where the proposed Celbridge Link Road meets Tubber Lane. This junction will be constructed to allow for future potential upgrade to a signal controlled junction. 5. New vehicular cul-de-sac with turning facilities on Tubber Lane on the eastern side of the proposed Celbridge Link Road. Pedestrian and Cycle access will be maintained along Tubber Lane. 6. Construction of boundary treatments and appropriate landscaping works and Public Lighting. 7.Drainage, public lighting and ancillary service works. An Environmental Report has been prepared in respect of the proposed works. The proposed Road Scheme has undergone Appropriate Assessment Screening under the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) and it has been determined that an Appropriate Assessment is not required. Plans and particulars of the proposed development will be available for inspection or purchase at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy From 21 December 2017 to 07 February 2018 at the following locations: South Dublin County Council, County Hall, Tallaght, Dublin 24 between the hours of 9am to 5pm Monday to Thursday and 9am to 4.30pm Friday (Inspection only) between the hours of 9am to 4:30pm Monday to Thursday and 9am to 3.30pm Friday (Inspection and Purchase). Tallaght Library, Library Square, Tallaght, Dublin 24 (between the hours of 9.45am to 8 pm Monday to Thursday and 9.45am to 4.30pm Friday and Saturday) (Inspection only). Lucan Library, Supervalu Shopping Centre, Adamstown Road, Lucan, Co. Dublin (between the hours of 9.45am to 8 pm Monday to Thursday and 9.45am to 4.30pm Friday and Saturday) (Inspection only). Submissions and observations on the proposed Celbridge Link Road can be made online and in writing to the addresses below between 21 December 2017 to 21 February 2018 inclusive (excl. Public Holidays) as follows: Online: at ttps://consult.sdublincoco.ie up to 12.00 Midnight on the 21 February 2018 OR By Post: In writing to the Senior Executive Officer, Forward Planning Section, Land Use, Planning and Transportation, South Dublin County Council, County Hall, Tallaght, Dublin 24. To arrive no later than 5.00pm 21 February 2018. NOTE: Please make your submission by one medium only. Only submissions received by 21 February 2018 and addressed as set out above, will be considered. Submissions cannot be accepted in any other format or to any other postal address. Submissions and observations should state the name, address, and, where relevant, details of any organisation, community group or company etc. which you represent. All comments including the names and addresses of those making the comments, submitted to the Council with regards to the Part 8 Proposed Celbridge Link Road will form a report to be presented to South Dublin County Council, and will form part of a public document. https://consult.sdublincoco.ie/en/consultation/celbridge-link-road

  Application under part 8 · South Dublin County Council, SD178/0009

• 13 Oct 2008Grant permission & grant retention

  The construction of a single and part two storey detached building for use for staff facilities, toilet, storage and associated development including the enclosure of a service yard by new walling and gates and the relocation of fuel storage tanks and the extension of the car parking areas with associated lighting columns etc. The development also consists of the retention of the existing single storey machinery shed and its incorporating into the new building.

  Permission and retention · South Dublin County Council, SD08A/0703

• 4 Dec 2007Grant permission

  Single storey detached building to contain on course male and female toilets.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD07A/0960

• 5 Oct 2006Grant permission

  Viewing balcony at first floor level of the northeast & northwest facing elevations of clubhouse with associated changes to elevations.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD06A/0859

• 2 Aug 2006Grant permission

  Amendments to those developments granted permission under Register References SD04A/0763 and SD05A/0388 and will consist of an increase in the size (approx. 21.2sq.m.) of the proposed two storey extension to the south eastern side of the clubhouse to include an increase in the size of the proposed balcony area at first floor for potential use as a smoking facility and the omission of the new toilets at ground floor and their replacement with a golf shop with associated changes to roofs and elevations.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD06A/0663

• 18 May 2005Grant permission

  Amendments to development granted permission under Register Reference SD04A/0763 and will consist of an increase in the size (approx. 26.6sq.m.) of the two storey extensions to the south eastern side of the clubhouse to include a balcony area at first floor for potential use as a smoking facility, additional storage and an increase in the size of the service stairs lobby at ground floor, with associated changes to roofs and elevations.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD05A/0388

• 12 Oct 2004Grant permission

  The extension of the existing clubhouse by the construction of ground and first floor extensions with associated internal alterations and changes to elevations.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD04A/0763

• 11 Aug 2003Grant permission

  Internal subdivision of existing granary building to incorporate new internal stores at ground floor level with new open storage at mezzanine level, new door opening to external envelope, demolition of two existing glasshouses together with all associated site development/reinstatement works.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD03A/0608

• 16 May 2001Grant permission

  Erection of a prefabricated unit measuring 6.1m x 12.2m which will be sited to the rear of the Administration Block.

  Permission · South Dublin County Council, S01A/0296

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

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 4 recorded monuments.

• DU017-028001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  An oblique aerial photograph (CUCAP, BDU047) taken 19/07/1970 shows Aderrig Church (DU017-028002-) standing on a circular-shaped hillock partially enclosed by an earth and bank field boundary from S to W only which has been partially levelled from W through N to E, with an external fosse enclosing an oval-shaped area (dims. 70m x 50m). A possible inner bank with opening in the S is also visible on the photograph. The field boundary has now been removed and some of the enclosing features can be identified on the ground as an artificially raised area. This oval shaped earthwork enclosing Aderrig church and graveyard (DU017-028003-) is depicted on the 1837 ed. OSi 6-inch map and represents the enclosing element of Aderrig graveyard. The poorly preserved remains of Aderrig Church now stands isolated on an island of uncultivated land in a tillage field with no surface remains visible of grave-markers or any enclosing element that was visible in the 1970 aerial photograph. Enclosing feature visible on Cambridge University aerial photograph may be the remains of the enclosing element of the graveyard which may follow the line of an earlier ecclesiastical enclosure. Outline of levelled enclosure visible as a cropmark on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Cropmarks of possible field system (DU017-028004-) to S of church and graveyard visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached aerial photograph, courtesy of Cambridge University Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 29 May 2023

• DU017-028002 Church
  Description

  Aderrig (Áth Deirg/Red Ford) Church and graveyard (DU017-028003-) stands on an artificial rise within the W quadrant of a levelled enclosure (DU017-028001-). The church stands 200m E of the W boundary of Aderrig parish which also forms the county boundary with Kildare. The parish boundary of Lucan represented by the townland boundary of Tobermaclugg lies 730m to the E. This medieval parish church is one of those confirmed to the Archbishop of Dublin after the Anglo-Norman Conquest and in the first half of the 13th century was granted to St. Patrick's Cathedral. Between 1212-28 there are references to the 'Ecclesia de Adderke' (Gilbert 1897, 137). In 1328, on the 12th of June, the Archbishop of Dublin being then abroad, Dean Rodyard , as Vicar-General, held an inquisition relative to the right of presentation to the church of Adderke (Mason 1820, 122). In 1533 the Reportorium Viride of John Alen, Archbishop of Dublin listed the 'Ecclesia de Adderke' or Church of Aderrig as a church belonging to the medieval Deanery of Taney (White 1941, 189). In 1546 an Inquisition of the estate of the collegiate and cathedral church of St Patrick's recorded that in; 'the town-lands of Adderge and Marshallrathe is one castle [DU017-112----], or mansion and lx [90] acres of arable land, xii acres of wood and pasture, ii messuages and one park called Roos-croft, worth, per annum, iiil. vis. viiid.. The tithes are payable out of the town-lands of Adderge, Backewexton, Ffeydanstan, Kelleston, Gallrowtheston, Callaghtowne and Leightowne, worth, per annum xviil. the ii messuages and park called Rooscroft, the alterages of the parish and iiil.. vis. viiid. of issues of said rectory, are assigned to the Curate for his stipend and repair of Chancel' (Mason 1820, 95). In 1547 a 21 year lease was granted by the Crown to Thomas Luttrell of Luttrellstown which included the; 'the rectory of Aderge, county Dublin, with Roes Croft and other appurtenances in Aderge, and the tithes, & co., extending to the towns of Aderge, Backweyston, Fydanston, Kellieston, Galrotheston, Kaillaghton, and Leighton; lands in Marshialrathe, Esker, Kysshoke, and Lucan; parcel of the possessions of the vicars-choral of the late cathedral of S. Patrick, Dublin. Also the rectory or prebend of Monmahennoke [Dunmanoge], county Kildare, with all tithes, &c., belonging thereto. To hold for twenty-one years, at a rent of £31, finding fit chaplains for the churches of Aderge and Monmahennoke' (Nicholls 1994, 98). Aderrig church (DU017-028002-), graveyard (DU017-028003-) and enclosure (DU017-028001-) was described in 1857 as follows; ‘we reach an ancient road called Alderg, or Aderrig lane, and, at a little distance, the thickly ivy-covered ruin of the very ancient church presents itself, standing in a field in which can be indistinctly traced the boundary [DU017-028001-] of the grave yard and there are few in the county that present such as forgotten and desolate appearance. As in many other instances that we have had to record, the ancient road-way has been appropriated by the owner of the adjoining land, and the graveyard will soon cease to contain any monument of those who In silent hope repose under the green sod. The church of Aderrig appears to have been on those small stone roofed buildings, erected in the latter end of the thirteenth century. It measures about 36 feet by 18, and from the inroads of cattle and the destruction of people, who, for the sake of the cut stone gumis and dressings, have nearly pulled the fabric to pieces, the only portion remaining that could mark the date is the lancet headed doorway shown in the view, Mr. monk Mason, in his History of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, mentions, “that early in the thirteenth century Archbishop Luke directed that five marks of the annual funds of this church should be allotted to light the altar of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and the residue distributed amongst the Vicars celebrating Mass there”. Soon afterwards this church was erected into a prebend, which, in 1306 was valued at 114 shillings, Adam de Stratton being then its prebendary. There are only two or three grave stones in the churchyard, which, as we said before, presents a desolate and neglected appearance. The Parish of Aderrig contains about 760 acres, and the rectory is inappropriate in the Vicars Choral of St. Patrick’ (Sloane 1857, 255-6). Poorly preserved ivy-clad single cell rectangular church (ext. dims. 12.9m NE-SW x 7.3m N-S; Wall T 0.8-0.9m) aligned NE-SW which was built with roughly coursed large limestone blocks with packing stones in the interstices with alternating long and short quoin stones. It has been suggested that the walls of the church represents two phases of construction (SMR Field Report Henry Wheeler 13/09/1977 and Michael Moore 26/06/1986). The first phase is represented by the use of large stones (dims. c. 0.5 x 0.7m) in the lower walls which in some places is capped by smaller masonry (dims. c. 0.4m x 0.15m) representing a second phase of construction. The large masonry is bonded with a white coloured mortar while the smaller masonry on the the higher sections of the wall are bonded with a cream-coloured mortar. There are two putlog holes visible in the N wall c. 1m from ground level and 2 putlog holes visible in the S wall. The putlog hole in the S wall close to the door runs through the wall at an angle and may have served some other function than a putlog. The church has opposed doorways at the W end of the N and S walls which may be later insertions. The better preserved S doorway (Wth 1m) has a pointed segmental arch now covered in ivy with a rebate and draw-bar hole visible. The poorly preserved N doorway no survives as a broken out opening and has a particular long drawbar hole in the E jamb. Interior is lit by a slit ope in W gable which may have been an insertion. The N side of a similar window in the E wall survives. The N wall stands to full height or to eaves level (c. 3m) along with the W part of the S wall. The ivy-clad W gable stands to full height. N side of E gable stands c. 2m high. Church ruins described by Ní Mharcaigh (1997, 263-264) as follows; 'Aderrig Church stands at the highest point of a circular raised burial ground, at one side of a larger elliptical raised feature. Aerial photography shows that the church lies within a larger enclosure. The west wall stands to gable height and the north wall to about 3m for its full length. The north corner of the east wall stands to about 2.5m and terminates in a jamb for a splayed window with a flat sill. The south corner of the east wall stands to less than 1m and the side is completely broken. An entrance in the south wall, 3.7m from the west gable, has a pointed arch edged by large plain stones. It is 1m wide and has a bolt hole on the west side. There is an opening 0.2m sq. in the south wall west of the entrance. In the north wall there is another entrance of the same dimensions directly opposite the south entrance with a bolt hole on the east side; the other side is broken and the top of the door is missing. A sill of flat stones in the north wall indicates a window but the upper part of the wall is missing. There are two putlog holes in this wall, 1m from ground level. Most of the south wall east of the door is missing except for foundations. There is no evidence for a division into nave and chancel. A slit window, splayed inside, is in the west gable'. Sloane, J. 1857 Antiquarian Rambles in the County of Dublin. Irish literary Gazette 1857, 265-66. See attached Black & White photographs taken 13/09/1977 by Henry A. Wheeler of the NMS; Black and White image taken by Thomas Mason of the intact south doorway and wall of the church taken from the book History of the County of Dublin, Part IV, by F. Elrington Ball (1906), courtesy of South Dublin Libraries, Local Studies Collection, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/1084. Compiled by: Geraldine St

• DU017-028003 Graveyard
  Description

  Aderrig church (DU017-028002-) and graveyard stands on an artificial rise of ground defined by a levelled enclosure (DU017-028001-) in flat, low-lying ground. The graveyard is unfenced with two gravestones outside the SW corner of the ruined medieval church (DU017-028002-) one of which belongs to the Russell family dating from 1733 the other belonging to the McKeone family dating from 1820 (Henry Wheeler 13/09/1977). The inscription on the headstone reads – ‘Erected by John Mckeone, Mountsreet, Dublin, in memory of his beloved mother Jane McKeone who departed this life January the 16th, 1820 aged 63 years’ (H.A.Wheeler 13/09/1977). Aderrig church (DU017-028002-), graveyard (DU017-028003-) and enclosure (DU017-028001-) was described in 1857 as follows; ‘we reach an ancient road called Alderg, or Aderrig lane, and, at a little distance, the thickly ivy-covered ruin of the very ancient church presents itself, standing in a field in which can be indistinctly traced the boundary [DU017-028001-] of the grave yard and there are few in the county that present such as forgotten and desolate appearance. As in many other instances that we have had to record, the ancient road-way has been appropriated by the owner of the adjoining land, and the graveyard will soon cease to contain any monument of those who In silent hope repose under the green sod. The church of Aderrig appears to have been on those small stone roofed buildings, erected in the latter end of the thirteenth century. It measures about 36 feet by 18, and from the inroads of cattle and the destruction of people, who, for the sake of the cut stone gumis and dressings, have nearly pulled the fabric to pieces, the only portion remaining that could mark the date is the lancet headed doorway shown in the view, Mr. monk Mason, in his History of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, mentions, “that early in the thirteenth century Archbishop Luke directed that five marks of the annual funds of this church should be allotted to light the altar of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and the residue distributed amongst the Vicars celebrating Mass there”. Soon afterwards this church was erected into a prebend, which, in 1306 was valued at 114 shillings, Adam de Stratton being then its prebendary. There are only two or three grave stones in the churchyard, which, as we said before, presents a desolate and neglected appearance. The Parish of Aderrig contains about 760 acres, and the rectory is inappropriate in the Vicars Choral of St. Patrick’ (Sloane 1857, 255-6). See drawing of church and graveyard taken from Irish Literary Gazette 1857 Sloane, J. 1857 Antiquarian Rambles in the County of Dublin. Irish literary Gazette 1857, 265-66. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 31 May 2023

• DU017-028004 Field system
  Description

  A series of enclosures are visible as crop marks Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 along the west and southern boundaries of the ecclesiastical enclosure (DU017-028001-). These may represent the remains of a field system associated with the ecclesiastical site (SMR file; pers. comm. Tom Condit, 11 March 2015). DU017-028004-_01.jpg: Aerial view showing the crop marks (from Google Maps, accessed 12 March 2015). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 12 March 2015

Architectural heritage

• Backweston House, farm house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, c. 1800. Timber sash windows. Replacement timber panelled door with original radial fanlight. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered base course and raised quoins. Extensions to rere of house with various casement windows. Square rubble stone gate piers to rere leading to road.

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 10 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_2971 (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.

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