Balgaddy

1,396 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balgaddy, from 1 m² to 40,259 m² (4.03 ha, 9.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 85 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.

• R2RES (Existing residential)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 1,368 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1OS (Open space, park)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 32 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R3SDZ (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 15 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M3LC (District, neighbourhood centre)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

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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 Balgaddy.

Recorded monuments

• DU017-031 Ritual site - holy tree/bush
  Description

  In 1974 this was a large bush at the road junction. It has since been cleared. Named 'bush of Balgarry' on the OS 1936-7 edition. This may have been a holy bush. No visible trace at ground level. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Post box, 1940–1970 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron pillar post box, c.1950, with manufacturer's mark to base and 'POST OFFICE' lettering flanking slot.

• Wynyard, farmyard complex, 1820–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of three former farm buildings c.1835, now in use as detached houses. The western structure is five-bay two-storey with metal casement windows. Two timber doors, one a modern replacement. Roughcast rendering over rubble construction with replacement corrugated plastic roofing and roughcast rendered chimney stack proud of the wall. Originally single-storey. Central building is four-bay single-storey with timber sash windows. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered base course. Corrugated plastic roofing with smooth rendered chimney stack. Third building in north east corner has been recently heavily modified. Buildings originally thatched.

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached five-bay single-storey house, c.1860, with blind wall section to west. Currently unoccupied. Roughcast finish with smooth rendered base course. Glazed timber panelled door. Timber casement windows. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimney stack. Roughcast rendered walls and gate piers to street.

• P&P Motor Factors, house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached four-bay single-storey house, c.1860, now in part use as commercial premises. Smooth rendered walls with replacement uPVC and timber windows. Raised parapet to westernmost bay with simple shopfront having steel roller shutter. Pitched concrete tile roof with smooth rendered chimney stack to rere pitch.

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 Balgaddy, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3046 (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.

No address of the register names Balgaddy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Balgaddy · Baile Gadaí

Area

919,795 m² (91.98 ha, 227.29 acres)

Civil parish

Clondalkin, and its townlands

Barony

Uppercross

Electoral division

Lucan-Esker, the unit of the census

Census 2022

33,849 people lived in 9,990 households in the Lucan-Esker electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 2% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyowen, Cappagh, Esker South, Kishoge, Neillstown, Ronanstown

Placenames

Balgaddy 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.