Staffordstown
Staffordstown is a townland in the civil parish of Lusk, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is Baile Stafaird.
Parcel 1907313
- Area
- 4,272 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres)
- Buildings
- 6 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 740 m².
- Zoning
- P1 RU - Rural (The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029) The objective
- Townland
- Staffordstown
Planning applications on this parcel
1 Oct 2012Grant permission
The change of use of the existing 16 bedroom, bed and breakfast in 2 b
Permission · Fingal County Council, F12A/0307
2 Apr 2012Withdraw application
The change of use of the existing 16 bedroom, bed and breakfast in 2 b
Permission · Fingal County Council, F12A/0096
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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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
- 42.8 ha
- 106 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 5,067 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres)
- Zoning
- R3
- RC - Rural Cluster
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Staffordstown, from 4,272 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres) to 419,110 m² (41.91 ha, 103.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R3RC - Rural Cluster (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 16 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 12 parcels 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
24 Sept 2019Grant permission
Alterations and renovations of existing cottage, A Protected Structure
Permission · Fingal County Council, F19A/0075
3 Mar 2017Grant permission
Alterations to an existing house including the construction of a two s
Permission · Fingal County Council, F16A/0524
1 Oct 2012Grant permission
The change of use of the existing 16 bedroom, bed and breakfast in 2 b
Permission · Fingal County Council, F12A/0307
2 Apr 2012Withdraw application
The change of use of the existing 16 bedroom, bed and breakfast in 2 b
Permission · Fingal County Council, F12A/0096
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Staffordstown.
Recorded monuments
- DU008-017 Ritual site - holy well
Description
This holy well was traditionally associated with St. Catherine. Situated in field of tillage W of stream. No visible surface trace (Ó Danachair 1958, 74). No longer venerated (Healy 1975, 20). Bridetree Well (DU008-018----) lies 110m to the SE. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 12 April 2023
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Staffordstown.
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 Staffordstown, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Staffordstown.
- 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
No address of the register names Staffordstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Staffordstown · Baile Stafaird
- Area
- 428,451 m² (42.85 ha, 105.87 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lusk, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery East
- Electoral division
- Lusk, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 10,774 people lived in 3,341 households in the Lusk electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 62% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bridetree, Corduff, Corduff (Hackett), Lusk, Newhaggard
- Placenames
- Staffordstown 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.