Mountashton

86 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountashton, from 6 m² to 40,183 m² (4.02 ha, 9.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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.

• R2Objective A (Existing residential)
  COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown · 114 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Objective SNI (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Objective F (Open space, park)
  COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M3Objective NC (District, neighbourhood centre)
  COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Objective E (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

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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 Mountashton.

Recorded monuments

• DU023-068 Burial
  Description

  Situated between Fitzgerald Park and Mountown Road Lower. A burial was discovered in November 1968 during the digging of foundation trenches for a dwelling house. Portions of skulls and long bones were visible in the section faces (D 0.30m-0.60m). They were thought to be extended with burials overlying others. No associated artefacts were found with any of the burials (Cahill & Sikora 2011, 472). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 6 July 2018

Architectural heritage

• Wynberg House, house, 1844–1869 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, extant 1869, on an E-shaped plan with single-bay two-storey bows on engaged half-octagonal plans centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor; three-bay two-storey lower range along rear (south) elevation. Occupied, 1911. Pitched slate roof on a U-shaped plan with half-octagonal slate roofs (bows); pitched slate roof (south), clay ridge tiles, rendered red brick Running bond chimney stacks having corbelled steppe capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, rendered coping to gables (south) with rendered chimney stacks to apexes centred on rendered "wallhead" chimney stack having rendered capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on overhanging timber eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered walls on rendered plinth with rendered channelled piers to corners. Square-headed central door opening in square-headed recess approached by two cut-granite steps, distyle "in antis" doorcase with engaged columns on plinths framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, cruciform mullions, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows behind timber lattice panels. Square-headed window openings (south) with cut-granite sills, cruciform mullions, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows behind timber lattice panels. Set in landscaped grounds with roughcast piers to perimeter having rendered rounded capping supporting crocketed cast-iron double gates.

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 Mountashton, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3311 (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 Mountashton with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Mountashton · Mountashton

Area

273,705 m² (27.37 ha, 67.63 acres)

Civil parish

Monkstown, and its townlands

Barony

Rathdown

Neighbouring townlands

Honeypark, Lansville, Monkstown, Monkstown Castlefarm, Newtown Castlebyrn, Stradbrook

Placenames

Mountashton 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.