Woodtown

632 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Woodtown, from 2 m² to 166,235 m² (16.62 ha, 41.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 72 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.

• R2RES (Existing residential)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 553 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1RU (Agriculture)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 87 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1RES-N (New/proposed residential)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3HA-DM (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1OS (Open space, park)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M3LC (District, neighbourhood centre)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

No planning application touches the townland of Woodtown in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Woodtown.

Recorded monuments

• DU025-002 Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
  Description

  Situated on sloping pasture above the Owendoher river valley. A single chambered tomb facing NW is formed by a massive granite roofstone (L 6.3m; Wth 3.15m; D 1.3m) which rests on a broken portal (H 2.44m). The other portal lies close by (L 4.4m; Wth 1.1m) (Borlase 1897, 2, 282-5; Ó Nualláin 1983, 82, 90; Turner 1983, No. 6). A drawing by Gabriel Beranger (1781) shows more stones around the monument than there are today (Ball 1906, 48-9). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 7 July 2018

• DU025-087 Cursus
  Description

  Situated on a gentle E facing slope in undulating pasture. A cursus consisting of a u-shaped earthwork is visible on an aerial photograph aligned approximately NW–SE; the curve of the U is at the SE. It is defined by a low bank and external fosse that encloses an area c. 125m by 45m. The precise nature of this earthwork is unknown and the possibility that it could be the remnants of a cursus-type monument cannot be excluded. DU025-087----_01.jpg: Oblique view of the earthwork from the S on Google maps. Compiled by: Paul Walsh and Padraig Clancy Date of upload: 15 April 2015

Architectural heritage

• Woodtown Park, farm house, 1825–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over basement country house, c.1830, containing fabric of former farm house, c.1700. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Full-height bow to north-west side. Timber sash windows throughout. Projecting Doric tetrastyle porch with full entablature and timber panelled door. Hipped slate roofs behind parapet. Rendered chimney stacks. Stable courtyard to south-west, entered through carriageway, with a range of outbuildings including façade of former stables and single-storey polygonal building with original timber casement windows in ogee openings.

• Woodtown Park, gate lodge, 1825–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey classical style gate lodge, c.1830, with shallow central pedimented breakfront. Refurbished and extended, c.1990. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with granite entablature. Square granite columns to corners of original building. Granite pediment and columns to breakfront. Replacement timber sash windows. Replacement timber panelled door. Hipped slate roof with central rendered chimney stack. Extension to rere in a similar style. Set inside entrance screen comprising cast-iron gates and gate posts, flanking stone piers and rendered walls.

• Woodtown Manor, country house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey country house, c.1700, on a rectangular plan originally three-bay two-storey with two-bay two-storey flush end bays. Extended, c.1830. Sold, 1996. Hipped and bow-ended slate roof with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks on slate hung bases having stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered red brick header bond eaves. Roughcast walls on cut-granite chamfered cushion course on plinth. Segmental-headed central door opening with five cut-granite steps, cut-granite block-and-start surround centred on keystone framing glazed timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (ground floor) or six-over-three (first floor) timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement (west) with cut-granite sills, timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (ground floor) or six-over-three (first floor) timber sash windows having two-over-two (ground floor) or two-over-one (first floor) sidelights. Set in landscaped grounds.

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 Woodtown, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3184 (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 Woodtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Woodtown · Baile na Coille

Area

2,014,674 m² (201.47 ha, 497.84 acres)

Civil parish

Cruagh, and its townlands

Barony

Uppercross

Electoral division

Firhouse-Ballycullen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

10,522 people lived in 3,313 households in the Firhouse-Ballycullen electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 2% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycullen, Killakee, Mountpelier, Newtown, Oldcourt, Orlagh, Scholarstown

Placenames

Woodtown 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.