Balscaddan

125 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balscaddan, from 9 m² to 130,820 m² (13.08 ha, 32.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 52 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.

• G3GB - Green Belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 71 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2RV - Rural Village (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 61 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 26 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R3RC - Rural Cluster (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4OS - Open Space (Active open space)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

No planning application touches the townland of Balscaddan 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 the townland of Balscaddan.

Recorded monuments

• DU001-036 Quarry
  Description

  Quarry depicted on the 1837 ed. OSi six-inch map as a small D-shaped excavated area (approx. dims. 12m N-S x 17m E-W)  in the NE corner of a field on the townland boundary with Flemingtown.  Outlined as a small semi-circular shaped area on the last edition of the OSi six-inch map.  Depicted as a semi-circular shaped area on the S side of a field boundary running E-W on the 1863 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Not visible on the 2013-2018 MapGenie orthoimagery of the area.   Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

• DU004-003 Enclosure
  Description

  Located in low-lying, poorly drained pasture. An aerial photograph (CUCAP, BGL 6) taken in 1971 shows a cropmark of a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) with a levelled field bank radiating from the N. Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by Christine Baker Date of upload: 24 October 2014

Architectural heritage

• Balscaddan House, house, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, c.1905, with projecting gabled bay to left-hand side and returns to rear. Central entrance canopy flanked by projecting bays to ground floor. ROOF: Double pitched m-profile roof with red diamond shaped tiles, terracotta ridge tiles, rough cast rendered chimney stacks with terracotta pots, timber barge boards, cast-iron rain water goods, double pitched and hipped roof to farm buildings. Projecting dormer roof to front pitch with terracotta apron and timber barge boards to front. WALLS: Rough cast rendered rubble stone farm buildings and carriage building with limestone quioins and brick dressings, c.1830.OPENINGS: Square headed openings with rough-cast rendered reveals, concrete cills, uPVC window casements, probably original timber panelled door with coloured glass, side light and overlight; limestone and tiled step.Rubble stone farm buildings, c.1820, and barrel vaulted corrugated-iron hay shed, c.1970, to site.

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 Balscaddan, 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

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

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

Name

Balscaddan · Baile Scadán

Area

1,351,234 m² (135.12 ha, 333.9 acres)

Civil parish

Balscaddan, and its townlands

Barony

Balrothery East

Electoral division

Balscadden, the unit of the census

Census 2022

743 people lived in 229 households in the Balscadden electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonard or Folkstown Great, Commons (1st Division), Commons (2nd Division), Flemingtown, Folkstown Little, Grange, Newtown, Tobersool, Tobertown

Placenames

Balscaddan 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.