Piercetown

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Piercetown, from 106 m² to 97,548 m² (9.75 ha, 24.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• G3GB - Green Belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 31 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4OS - Open Space (Active open space)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 28 Aug 2024Grant permission

  new detached one and a half story dwellinghouse along with on site was

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0775E

• 18 Dec 2015Grant permission

  Single storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling.

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F15B/0289

• 13 Nov 2015Withdraw application

  Single storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling.

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F15B/0250

• 28 Nov 2014App withdrawn as no ai recd in 6 months

  Extension to rear and side of existing dwelling

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F14B/0282

• 18 Oct 2011Grant permission

  A new single storey extension to link existing 2 no detached buildings

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F11A/0270

• 24 Jun 2011Grant permission

  Replace existing garage with habitable room to the side and to reinsta

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F11B/0140

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 Piercetown.

Recorded monuments

• DU005-190 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Located close to the southern boundary of a large arable field, c. 310m NNW of an enclosure (DU005-069----) and c. 1.05 km SW of the Irish Sea coastline at Holmpatrick, cropmarks indicate the presence of the subsurface remains of a ring-ditch, one of two ring-ditches in the same field. The other ring-ditch (DU005-191----) is located c. 140m to the WSW. The ring-ditch, visible on Apple Maps imagery (June 2018), comprises a circular feature (ext. diam. c. 12m) defined by a ditch (Wth c. 1m). There is no evidence for an entrance through the ditch. Compiled by: Tom Condit Uploaded on: 23 April 2021

• DU005-191 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Located close to the southern boundary of a large arable field, c. 345m NW of an enclosure (DU005-069----), and c. 1.2km SW of the Irish Sea coastline at Holmpatrick, cropmarks indicate the presence of the subsurface remains of a ring-ditch, one of two ring-ditches in the same field. The other ring-ditch (DU005-190----) is located c. 140m to the ENE. The ring-ditch, visible on Apple Maps imagery (June 2018), comprises a circular feature (ext. diam. c. 11m) defined by a ditch (Wth c. 1m). There is no evidence for an entrance through the ditch. Compiled by: Tom Condit Uploaded on: 23 April 2021

• DU005-192 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Located close to the S boundary of a large arable field, c. 2.2km S of the town of Skerries and 900m SW of the Irish Sea coastline at Holmpatrick, cropmarks indicate the presence of the subsurface remains of a possible ring-ditch. The ring-ditch, visible on Apple Maps imagery (June 2018), comprises a circular feature (ext. diam. c. 19m) defined by a ditch (Wth <1m). There is no evidence for an entrance through the ditch. Compiled by: Tom Condit Uploaded on: 23 April 2021

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Piercetown.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Piercetown.

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.

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

Name

Piercetown · Baile Phiarais

Area

311,411 m² (31.14 ha, 76.95 acres)

Civil parish

Lusk, and its townlands

Barony

Balrothery East

Electoral division

Holmpatrick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Holmpatrick electoral division: 4,147 people in 1,390 households; 92% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhavil, Drumlattery, Hacketstown, Holmpatrick, Lane

Placenames

Piercetown 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.