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Brackenstown

Townland in the civil parish of Swords, barony of Nethercross, Co. Dublin; in Irish Baile Breacáin

Parcel 6232044

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Brackenstown
50 m
35 parcels, click one to see it.© Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0
Area
457 m²
Buildings
1 building touches it, 147 m² on the ground
Zoning
R2 RS - Residential (The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029) The objective
Townland
Brackenstown

Planning applications on this parcel

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
About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
Landslides
Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
Terrain model
No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
Flooding
The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for 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
89.7 ha
222 acres
Land parcels
163
registered freehold, median 333 m²
Zoning
R2
RS - Residential
Planning
43
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

BrackenstownHilltownRathingleKilleekWindmill LandsKnocksedanForrest GreatBrazil
500 m
223 parcels, click one to see it. Not drawn, Tailte Éireann did not answer: the buildings.© Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

163 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brackenstown, from 2 m² to 14,568 m² (1.46 ha, 3.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 60 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

Zoning

Development plans, national zoning

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

Planning applications

Sites that touch the townland, newest first

The 25 most recent of 43 applications.

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 Brackenstown.

Recorded monuments

Architectural heritage

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
About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
Landslides
Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
Terrain model
No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Brackenstown.
Flooding
The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Brackenstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

The townland

Name
Brackenstown · Baile Breacáin
Area
896,887 m² (89.69 ha, 221.63 acres)
Civil parish
Swords, and its townlands
Barony
Nethercross
Electoral division
Swords-Forrest, the unit of the census
Census 2022
Swords-Forrest electoral division: 15,926 people in 5,334 households; 75% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Brazil, Forrest Great, Hilltown, Knocksedan, Rathingle
Placenames
Brackenstown 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.