Jamestown

134 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Jamestown, from 16 m² to 264,242 m² (26.42 ha, 65.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 70 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P1Objective B (Agriculture)
  COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown · 64 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Objective A (Existing residential)
  COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown · 62 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Objective F (Open space, park)
  COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown · 23 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Objective E (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown · 16 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Objective G (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M3Objective NC (District, neighbourhood centre)
  COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Objective SNI (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown · 0 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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Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Jamestown.

Recorded monuments

• DU026-001 Enclosure
  Description

  This enclosure site is located in an urban area, to the south of the Ballyogan Road. The site was marked as a tree ring on the 1843 OS 6-inch map. (diam. c. 22m). The site has been built on and is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy. Revised upload on: 2 April 2018

• DU026-003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  St Patrick's Well in the townland of Jamestown, parish of Tully, is located on a gentle NE facing slope. This is a small spring well in a private garden. A statue of St. Patrick is in a niche over the well. Still venerated on St. Patrick's day (Ó Danachair 1958, 84). Folklore collected from Kiltiernan School recorded the following tradition about this well; 'There is only one holy well in this district. It is supposed to have been there since the time of St Patrick. It is a fairly small one. It has a small white statue of St Patrick in a hole in the wall around it. It is about two feet deep. There are two white-thorn bushes beside it. You would know by the stone wall that it is very old. It’s in the town-land of Jamestown, on the right hand side of the road between Stepaside and Kilternan. There is a big gate with St Patrick’s written on it, and an avenue leads up to well. Mr. Mc Cowan owns the field it is in. The water is not used. There is a little step leading down to it. About twenty years back the people used to visit it. Some of them used to go around it, and as they would go around, they would pray, when they would be leaving they would tie a rag on one of the bushes, or beads. If they thought that they would be cured by going to it, if they had bad eye sight they might leave their glasses, or something like that, or if they thought their sores would be made better, they would dip their hand into the well and pour water on the sore. There are no fish in this well. It has a lovely rockery around it now. Mr. Mc Cowan has made it nice with flowers around it. He is about thirty years there. I was only once at the well and that was not long ago. I thought it was very nice, as all the flowers were out in bloom. The people don’t believe in going and praying at it now. They don’t put rags or beads on the trees nowadays' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0797, Page 100; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4428231/4387323/4458686). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 20 April 2023

• DU026-015 Cist
  Description

  This site is located in a low lying area and is located on the landscaped grounds of Stepaside Golf course. A cist burial was found during sand-quarrying operations. The burial was accompanied by a Food Vessel (NMI 1927:45; 1927:64). Two other burials were found near by, one an inhumation accompanied by a Food Vessel contained in a cist. The second, a cremation, was associated with a Food Vessel (Kavanagh 1973, 545-6, Waddell 1970, 116). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy. Revised upload on: 14 April 2018.

• DU026-016 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  This site is located in a low lying heavily landscaped area. There were two ring features, now removed, which are thought to be tree rings (Healy 1975). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy. Revised upload on: 14 April 2018.

• DU026-017 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  This site is located in a low lying heavily landscaped area. A removed ring feature thought to be a tree ring (Healy 1975). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy. Revised upload on: 14 April 2018.

• DU026-115 Linear earthwork
  Description

  Goodbody (1993) has identified an impressive section of linear earthwork, which may be part of the Pale Ditch. It is located on a valley floor at the foot of the Dublin Mountains. It runs on a line between Carrickmines Castle (DU026-005---) and Kilgobbin castle (DU025-017001-). It comprises a high, flat-topped bank (H 2.50m, Wth 2-3m) with contiguous ditches on both sides. The ditch on the northern side (Wth 2.4m, D 0.40m) is shallower than that on the southern side (Wth.3m, D 1m). There are thorns growing on the bank. Archaeological investigations in 1998 exposed a section through the base of the ditch (Wth 1.6m, D1.2m), no finds were recovered (Reid, M 1999, 61 https://www.excavations.ie/report/1998/Dublin/0003377/). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy. Revised upload on: 21 April 2018.

Architectural heritage

• Firmount, house, 1700–1837 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1837, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor; single-bay (single-bay deep) two-storey central return (west). "Improved", pre-1909, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. For sale, 1973. Hipped slate roof abutting hipped slate roof (west) with clay ridge tiles, rendered central chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls to front (east) elevation; slate hung surface finish to side (south) elevation with roughcast surface finish to side (north) elevation. Square-headed central door opening approached by two cut-granite steps with concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled double doors. Square-headed door opening into house with concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled double doors. Square-headed window openings (ground floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having two-over-two sidelights. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing four-over-eight timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (west) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds.

• Jamestown House, farm house, 1905–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built 1907; extant 1909, on a T-shaped plan originally three-bay two-storey on a rectangular plan with single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height central return (west). Renovated, 1990. Reroofed, 2012. Replacement pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched slate roof (west) with clay ridge tiles, coping to gables with cement rendered chimney stacks to apexes having rendered capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls. Round-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, staircase on a dog leg plan with turned timber balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in ball finial-topped turned timber newel, and carved timber surrounds to door openings to landings framing timber panelled doors; dining room (south) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters; drawing room (north) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters. Set back from road in landscaped grounds with cut-granite tapered piers to perimeter having pyramidal capping supporting looped wrought iron double gates.

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 Jamestown, 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_3261 (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 Jamestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Jamestown · Baile Shéamais

Area

1,930,258 m² (193.03 ha, 476.98 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgobbin, and its townlands

Barony

Rathdown

Electoral division

Glencullen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

23,596 people lived in 7,893 households in the Glencullen electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 58% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyedmonduff, Ballyogan, Carrickmines Great, Glebe, Glenamuck North, Kilgobbin, Kiltiernan, Kiltiernan Domain

Placenames

Jamestown 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.