Doddsborough
Doddsborough is a townland in the civil parish of Lucan, barony of Newcastle, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is Baile an Dodaigh.
Parcel 3037933
- Area
- 161 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 48 m².
- Zoning
- The zoning service did not answer.
- Townland
- Doddsborough
Planning applications on this parcel
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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 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3003 (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.
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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
- 105.1 ha
- 260 acres
- Land parcels
- 966
- registered freehold, median 197 m²
- Zoning
- R3
- SDZ
- Planning
- —
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
966 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doddsborough, from 0 m² to 133,278 m² (13.33 ha, 32.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 59 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
- R3SDZ (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 563 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2RES (Existing residential)
South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 378 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1OS (Open space, park)
South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 18 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M3LC (District, neighbourhood centre)
South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M3DC (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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
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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 Doddsborough.
Recorded monuments
- DU017-116 Kiln - lime
Description
Limekiln depicted immediately to the N of a quarry on the 1837 ed. OSi six-inch map which is bisected by the townland boundary with Cooldrinagh. Not indicated on the last edition of the OSi six-inch map. Limekiln stood in the north-east corner of a large disused quarry as depicted on the 1867 edition of the Ordnance Survey 25-inch map. No surface remains visible on the 2013-18 MapGenie orthoimage. Now located in the garden of a modern house. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of Compilation: 26 November 2025
Architectural heritage
- Annadale Cottage, house, 1800–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey house, c.1815. uPVC windows set into recessed blind segmental arches. Timber panelled door with fanlight. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered base course and flush cut-stone quoins. Central flat valley within U-shaped pitched slate roof, terminating in double gable front. Roughcast rendered chimney stacks. Extension to rere of property.
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 Doddsborough, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3003 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Doddsborough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Doddsborough · Baile an Dodaigh
- Area
- 1,051,115 m² (105.11 ha, 259.74 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lucan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Newcastle
- Electoral division
- Lucan-St. Helens, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 16,805 people lived in 5,363 households in the Lucan-St. Helens electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 59% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cooldrinagh, Esker South, Finnstown, Lucan and Pettycanon, Lucan Demesne, Tobermaclugg
- Placenames
- Doddsborough 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.