Oldbawn

More than 2,000 parcels touch this townland. The map cannot draw that many.

• R2RES (Existing residential)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin The zoning objective in the plan
• G1OS (Open space, park)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin The zoning objective in the plan
• M3LC (District, neighbourhood centre)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin The zoning objective in the plan
• G3HA-DV (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1EE (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin The zoning objective in the plan
• P1RU (Agriculture)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin 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 Oldbawn 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

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dodder Valley 000991

Recorded monuments

• DU021-057001 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  Now demolished but partially visible in parch marks in recorded on Google imagery in 2013, 2018 and 2020. Oldbawn House was erected in 1635 by William Bulkeley, Archdeacon of Dublin, son of Launcelot Bulkeley, the archbishop of Dublin, probably on the site of an earlier building (Leask 1913, 314-325). Of masonry construction, the building was 2 storeys high with a gabled and dormered attic level, following a H plan. The entrance front was in the cross-block between the vertical stems of the H and faced to the E. This façade was 3 bays wide with a pair of high fronted gables flanking a central projecting pedimented Gibbs porch. On one surviving illustration the windows are illustrated as two light mullioned opes, these are all shown as sash on later images. The NW and SE facing facades were 6 bays with massive chimneys topped by decorated stacks projecting forward from the façade. There were single windows at either end, beyond the chimneys and three central windows on both ground and first floor with a pair of attic dormers above. The late Tudor H plan building had a central hall and two chambers on to the left and on the right either side of stair wells and storage rooms. The first floor, which contained a great chamber over the hall and others over the left and right wing. The second storey contained several rooms within the attic. Within the house was a parlour mantelpiece which is held in the National Museum of Ireland. It is executed in stucco and bears a date of 1635, with a representation of the re-building of the walls of Jerusalem on the upper portion embellished with figures dressed in 17th century costume. The original staircase is also in the National Museum of Ireland. Old Bawn House was damaged in the rebellion of 1641. It was restored immediately at the great cost of £3,000 and was demolished to ground level finally in 1976. The house was set within a large defensive rectangular enclosure (DU021-057003-) defined by a wide broad fosse which may give the house, and townland its name 'Old Bawn'. Within that outer fosse, were a series of outbuildings, a long avenue to the house and various enclosures. Symmetrically laid out pleasure gardens ranged to the S of the house between a pair of orchards. These gardens included several fish ponds including one called The Giant Fish pond (DU021-057004-), pathways and planted beds. (Ball 1899, 93-108; Leask 1913, 315-325, Ball 1906, 31-36). Compiled by Geraldine Stout and Margaret Keane Uploaded on: 20 May 2020

• DU021-057002 Water mill - unclassified
  Description

  The Down Survey (1655-6) map shows a mill at Oldbawn. The Paper mill which adjoined Oldbawn House (SMR 21:57) probably occupies the site (Handcock 1991, 60-61). A mill stream taken off the Dodder at Kiltipper supplied the millpond. 1

Architectural heritage

• Marlfield House, farm house, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey with attic former farm house, c.1800, now in use as a house. Roughcast rendered walls, smooth rendered to corners. Shallow entrance breakfront with round-headed attic window above door having architrave surround and flanking windows. Glazed projecting porch. uPVC casement and replacement timber sash windows. Pitched slate roof with single rendered chimney stack. Large rere extension. Three-bay single-storey cottage to the north with adjoining garage facilities. Cast-iron entrance gates.

• Glenville House, farm house, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Linear group of three former farm buildings, c.1800. Two-storey section to south and single-storey with attic central section, each having roughcast rendered walls, timber sash and casement windows, and pitched slate roofs with rendered chimney stacks. Painted single-storey rubble stone section to north also with timber sash and casement windows, and hipped slate roof with elongated central brick chimney stack. Disused single-storey rubble stone farm buildings to rere.

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 Oldbawn, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3124 (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 Oldbawn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Oldbawn · An Seanbhábhún

Area

2,492,295 m² (249.23 ha, 615.86 acres)

Civil parish

Tallaght, and its townlands

Barony

Uppercross

Electoral division

Tallaght-Kiltipper, the unit of the census

Census 2022

9,432 people lived in 3,097 households in the Tallaght-Kiltipper electoral division. 58% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymana, Bohernabreena, Friarstown Upper, Killinardan, Killininny, Kiltipper, Tallaght, Whitestown

Placenames

Oldbawn 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.