Annfield
Annfield is a townland in the civil parish of Castleknock, barony of Castleknock, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is Gort Anna.
Parcel 5016638
- Area
- 3,554 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 1,516 m².
- Zoning
- S3 CI - Community Infrastructure (The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029) The objective
- Townland
- Annfield
Planning applications on this parcel
11 Apr 2025Grant permission
The development will consist of façade upgrade works to selected eleva
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW25A/0152E
11 Jul 2023Grant permission
Post Primary School with an overall floor area of 5376sq.m and 2 store
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW22A/0288
19 Dec 2016Grant permission
The development to consist of a first floor extension to include 3 no.
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW16A/0184
16 May 2016Grant permission
Permission for the construction of a two storey extensionto the existi
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW16A/0007
6 May 2015Grant permission
The development will consist of the following: Two-storey temporary
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW15A/0062
11 May 2012Grant permission
Planning permission for proposed development of a new 2 storey school
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW12A/0015
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_3044 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in 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
- 7.8 ha
- 19 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 116 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- RS - Residential
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Annfield, from 8 m² to 6,596 m² (0.66 ha, 1.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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
- R2RS - Residential (Existing residential)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 37 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S3CI - Community Infrastructure (Community facilities)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4OS - Open Space (Active open space)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 3 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
16 Jan 2026Grant time ext (3 months) ai
The Electricity Supply Board (ESB) intends to apply for permission for
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW26A/0017E
11 Apr 2025Grant permission
The development will consist of façade upgrade works to selected eleva
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW25A/0152E
11 Jul 2023Grant permission
Post Primary School with an overall floor area of 5376sq.m and 2 store
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW22A/0288
19 Dec 2016Grant permission
The development to consist of a first floor extension to include 3 no.
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW16A/0184
16 May 2016Grant permission
Permission for the construction of a two storey extensionto the existi
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW16A/0007
6 May 2015Grant permission
The development will consist of the following: Two-storey temporary
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW15A/0062
11 May 2012Grant permission
Planning permission for proposed development of a new 2 storey school
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW12A/0015
12 Oct 2011Grant permission
Provision of 4 no. 5 metre high public lighting standards in lieu of e
Permission · Fingal County Council, FW11A/0105
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 Annfield.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Annfield.
Architectural heritage
- Annfield House, house, 1720–1760 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, c.1740, flanked by wings leading to pavilions, and having central gable-fronted projecting entrance bay. Return to rear. Outbuildings to north and east. Archbishop John Troy was born in Annfield House in 1739. He was Catholic Bishop of Ossary in 1776 and in 1786 was elevated to the Archbishopric of Dublin on the death of his cousin Dr. John Carpenter. Troy built the Pro-Cathedral in Dublin during early nineteenth century.ROOF: Double pitched tiled roof with clay ridge tiles; rendered chimney stacks flush with gables with moulded clay pots; hipped slate roofs with clay ridge tiles to flanking pavilions and wings; rendered chimney stack to left wing; cast-iron rainwater goods; large curved angled chimney stack to rear. WALLS: Rough cast rendered walls with smooth rendered central porch with quoining; stepped cornice below gutters. OPENINGS: Square headed window openings, patent rendered soffits, reveals and painted stone cills surrounding single pane timber sash windows; round headed door opening; rendered soffits and reveals surrounding late 19th century timber panelled door; fanlight above timber lintel; door opening flanked by round headed sidelights with margin paned timber windows with stained glass.
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 Annfield, 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_3084 (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 Annfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Annfield · Gort Anna
- Area
- 77,756 m² (7.78 ha, 19.21 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castleknock, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castleknock
- Electoral division
- Castleknock-Knockmaroon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 20,967 people lived in 6,937 households in the Castleknock-Knockmaroon electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Astagob, Kellystown, Porterstown
- Placenames
- Annfield 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.