Jamestown
Jamestown is a townland in the civil parish of Swords, barony of Nethercross, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is Baile Shéamais.
Parcel 5312757
- Area
- 2,538 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 238 m².
- Zoning
- G3 GB - Green Belt (The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029) The objective
- Townland
- Jamestown
Planning applications on this parcel
30 Oct 2015Grant permission
Construction of a new part single-storey, part two-storey dwelling, a
Permission · Fingal County Council, F15A/0493
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 20 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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
- 16.5 ha
- 41 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 3,690 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- GB - Green Belt
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Jamestown, from 208 m² to 68,505 m² (6.85 ha, 16.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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
- G3GB - Green Belt (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 16 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M1MRE - Metro and Rail Economic Corridor (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
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
7 Mar 2024Grant permission
The construction of an agricultural/Machinery shed and minor alteratio
Permission · Fingal County Council, F24A/0198
16 Oct 2023Grant permission
Planning permission is sought for the construction of a new glasshouse
Permission · Fingal County Council, F23A/0619
21 Aug 2018Grant permission
Extension to existing glass house and erection of 1 no. new rainwater
Permission · Fingal County Council, F18A/0483
30 Oct 2015Grant permission
Construction of a new part single-storey, part two-storey dwelling, a
Permission · Fingal County Council, F15A/0493
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 Jamestown.
Recorded monuments
- DU011-109 Enclosure
Description
A well-defined cropmark of a large circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) with an internal ring-ditch (DU011-109001-) (diam. c. 8m) just NE of centre, visible on Google Earth (imagery date: 7/4/2008) (pers. comm. T. Condit). Located on relatively high ground with extensive views. No visible remains at ground level. Compiled by: Claire Breen Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 09 January 2015
- DU011-109001 Ring-ditch
Description
A ring-ditch (diam. c. 8m) just NE of centre of a large circular enclosure (DU011-109----) (diam. c. 50m), visible on Google Earth (imagery date: 7/4/2008) (pers. comm. T. Condit). Located on relatively high ground with extensive views. No visible remains at ground level. Compiled by: Claire Breen Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 16 October 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Jamestown.
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 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Jamestown.
- 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 Jamestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Jamestown · Baile Shéamais
- Area
- 164,511 m² (16.45 ha, 40.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Swords, and its townlands
- Barony
- Nethercross
- Electoral division
- Swords-Lissenhall, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 12,065 people lived in 3,928 households in the Swords-Lissenhall electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 58% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balheary, Belinstown, Magillstown
- 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.