Ballaghstown
Ballaghstown is a townland in the civil parish of Baldongan, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is Baile an Bhealaigh.
Parcel 1912010
- Area
- 97,785 m² (9.78 ha, 24.16 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- P1 RU - Rural (The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029) The objective
- Townland
- Ballaghstown
Planning applications on this parcel
19 Aug 2025Refuse permission
Planning Permission for refurbishment and reuse of an existing vernacu
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0761E
26 Jun 2025Invalid application
for refurbishment and reuse of an existing vernacular dwelling house a
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0574E
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 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, partly inferred.
- 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
- 88.2 ha
- 218 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 15,230 m² (1.52 ha, 3.76 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- RU - Rural
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballaghstown, from 193 m² to 212,040 m² (21.2 ha, 52.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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
- P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 43 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 · 4 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
19 Aug 2025Refuse permission
Planning Permission for refurbishment and reuse of an existing vernacu
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0761E
26 Jun 2025Refuse permission & refuse retention
Planning permission is sought for:
Permission and retention · Fingal County Council, F25A/0572E
26 Jun 2025Invalid application
for refurbishment and reuse of an existing vernacular dwelling house a
Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0574E
12 Jun 2025Invalid application
Planning permission is sought for:
Retention · Fingal County Council, F25A/0526E
28 Jun 2024Refuse permission
Removal of portion of existing outhouses,
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0580E
19 Feb 2024Grant permission
Planning permission for house and waste water treatment system and for
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0127
5 Jul 2022Grant permission
Alterations, extension & renovations to house and for waste water trea
Permission · Fingal County Council, F22A/0338
5 Jun 2013Grant permission
Vehicular service repair and storage shed to replace existing vehicula
Permission · Fingal County Council, F13A/0102
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 Ballaghstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballaghstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballaghstown.
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 Ballaghstown, 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 Ballaghstown.
- 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 Ballaghstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Ballaghstown · Baile an Bhealaigh
- Area
- 882,023 m² (88.2 ha, 217.95 acres)
- Civil parish
- Baldongan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery East
- Electoral division
- Holmpatrick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 4,147 people lived in 1,390 households in the Holmpatrick electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balcunnin, Baldongan, Ballykea, Laytown, Rallekaystown, Tyrrelstown Big, Tyrrelstown Little
- Placenames
- Ballaghstown 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.