Tobertaskin
Townland in the civil parish of Balscaddan, barony of Balrothery East, Co. Dublin; in Irish Tobar Déicin
Parcel 2513872
- Area
- 3,007 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- G3 GB - Green Belt (The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029) The objective
- Townland
- Tobertaskin
Planning applications on this parcel
20 Apr 2026Refuse permission
Permission is sought for the construction of a horse training facilit
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0311E
6 Mar 2026Invalid application due to site notice
Construction of a horse training facility comprising of a 24 horse st
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0161E
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for 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
- 27.3 ha
- 67 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 3,007 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- RU - Rural
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tobertaskin, from 663 m² to 156,131 m² (15.61 ha, 38.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3GB - Green Belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 1 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
20 Apr 2026Refuse permission
Permission is sought for the construction of a horse training facilit
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0311E
6 Mar 2026Invalid application due to site notice
Construction of a horse training facility comprising of a 24 horse st
Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0161E
3 Feb 2023Grant permission
The development will consist of modifications to extension design from
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0033
7 Apr 2021Grant permission
The refurbishment of existing derelict cottage, with glass link to a d
Permission · Fingal County Council, F20A/0403
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 Tobertaskin.
Recorded monuments
- DU001-034 Earthwork
Description
In tillage field. Cropmark of circular-shaped area defined by the cropmark of a ditch visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 21/07/2021. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 23 January 2023
- DU001-038 Quarry
Description
Quarry depicted as a small circular-shaped excavated area (approx. diam. 15m) on the 1837 ed. OSi six-inch map. Outlined as a circular-shaped area on the last edition of the OSi six-inch map. Depicted as a small circular-shaped area on the 1863 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Not visible on the 2013-2018 MapGenie orthoimagery of the area. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tobertaskin.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tobertaskin.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Tobertaskin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Tobertaskin · Tobar Déicin
- Area
- 272,596 m² (27.26 ha, 67.36 acres)
- Civil parish
- Balscaddan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Balrothery East
- Electoral division
- Balscadden, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Balscadden electoral division: 743 people in 229 households; 90% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Doolagh, Gibblockstown (Co. Meath), Rath, Sevenparks (1st Division), Sevenparks (2nd Division), Sevenparks (3rd Division), Stadalt (Co. Meath), Tobertown
- Placenames
- Tobertaskin 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.