Holybanks
Holybanks is a townland in the civil parish of Swords, barony of Nethercross, Co. Dublin. Its name in Irish is An Bruach Naofa.
Parcel 5593484
- Area
- 9 m²
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- M1 MRE - Metro and Rail Economic Corridor (The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029) The objective
- Townland
- Holybanks
Planning applications on this parcel
10 Dec 2025Grant permission
We, Cairn Homes Properties Limited, intend to apply to Fingal County C
Lrd application · Fingal County Council, LRD0080/S3E
2 Oct 2024Grant permission
We, Cairn Homes Properties Limited, intend to apply to Fingal County C
Lrd application · Fingal County Council, LRD0018/S3E
14 Apr 2022Decision made
The proposed development will consist of a residential scheme of 621 n
Strategic housing development · Fingal County Council, SHD/008/19
14 Jan 2011Refuse ext. of duration of permission
Development on lands at the former' Celestica' factory, bounded by Bal
Extension of duration of permission · Fingal County Council, F05A/0911/E1
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 Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 ha
- 17 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 18,193 m² (1.82 ha, 4.5 acres)
- Zoning
- M1
- MRE - Metro and Rail Economic Corridor
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Holybanks, from 9 m² to 51,495 m² (5.15 ha, 12.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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
- M1MRE - Metro and Rail Economic Corridor (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4OS - Open Space (Active open space)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3HA - High Amenity (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 0 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
10 Dec 2025Grant permission
We, Cairn Homes Properties Limited, intend to apply to Fingal County C
Lrd application · Fingal County Council, LRD0080/S3E
2 Oct 2024Grant permission
We, Cairn Homes Properties Limited, intend to apply to Fingal County C
Lrd application · Fingal County Council, LRD0018/S3E
14 Apr 2022Decision made
The proposed development will consist of a residential scheme of 621 n
Strategic housing development · Fingal County Council, SHD/008/19
14 Jan 2011Refuse ext. of duration of permission
Development on lands at the former' Celestica' factory, bounded by Bal
Extension of duration of permission · Fingal County Council, F05A/0911/E1
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 Holybanks.
Recorded monuments
- DU011-080 Ring-ditch
Description
A vertical, colour aerial photograph taken in 1992 (OS 8, Flight 24, 526) shows a cropmark of a circular ditched feature (diam. c. 14m). There is a gap in the NW. Located in a field south of the Broadmeadow River, bounded to the west by Applewood housing estate. Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 09 January 2015
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Holybanks.
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 Holybanks, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Holybanks with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.
The townland
- Name
- Holybanks · An Bruach Naofa
- Area
- 69,697 m² (6.97 ha, 17.22 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
- Broadmeadow, Castlefarm, Newtown
- Placenames
- Holybanks 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.