Neighbourhoods · Dublin City · last 24 months · 162 electoral divisions

Where the diggers are — Dublin City neighbourhoods

Data updated 26 Sept 2026 · register lag up to 7 days · sources & freshness

5,522 planning applications were lodged across 162 electoral divisions in the last 24 months — 24.5 per 1,000 households. 14% sought retention for something already built; 10% of decisions were refusals. Every table below ranks the neighbourhoods on one of those, and every row is a page.

24.5

applications per 1,000 households

48%

household works

14%

retention · built first

10%

of decisions refused

26%

went through further information

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Where the diggers are 162 ranked

Commencement notices lodged on the Building Control Management System in the window, per 1,000 households — work formally begun. Ranked only where the neighbourhood has at least 20 notices in the window. Top: Mansion House B (139.4); bottom: Wood Quay A (0.8).

#	Neighbourhood	notices per 1,000 households	Notices	Households	Retention	Refused	Median days
1	Mansion House B	139.4	46	330	15%	19%	55
2	Terenure D	44.4	13	293	—	—	—
3	Saint Kevin's	36.3	72	1,986	21%	22%	56
4	Terenure C	35.6	23	646	7%	4%	55
5	Clontarf East C	31.9	38	1,193	12%	0%	55
6	Rathmines East C	31.4	42	1,339	21%	12%	55
7	Clontarf East D	30.7	32	1,043	9%	5%	57
8	Pembroke East B	30.2	44	1,455	8%	21%	55
9	Royal Exchange B	29.1	18	618	12%	14%	55
10	Merchants Quay D	27.2	25	920	21%	—	—
11	Botanic C	25.4	24	945	14%	11%	55
12	Ballymun E	25	15	599	4%	—	—
13	Mansion House A	24.7	41	1,662	14%	11%	55
14	Clontarf East A	24.3	33	1,358	15%	11%	54
15	North City	24.2	53	2,187	16%	9%	63
16	Pembroke East E	23.8	36	1,511	17%	15%	57
17	Pembroke West B	23.6	33	1,400	2%	19%	55
18	Clontarf East E	23.5	14	596	9%	—	—
19	Pembroke West C	22.6	44	1,945	11%	8%	55
20	Clontarf East B	21.2	58	2,732	10%	3%	55
21	Drumcondra South C	21	27	1,285	13%	10%	55
22	Rathmines West C	20.6	23	1,119	22%	19%	62
23	South Dock	20.3	72	3,551	11%	12%	55
24	Royal Exchange A	20.3	34	1,679	27%	25%	58
25	Rathmines East D	20.3	23	1,134	18%	14%	55
26	Pembroke East C	19.6	33	1,681	14%	3%	55
27	Clontarf West C	18.9	33	1,749	20%	2%	64
28	Rathmines West E	18.8	29	1,544	27%	18%	55
29	Pembroke East D	18.6	36	1,939	2%	5%	55
30	Rathmines East A	18	40	2,227	2%	20%	55
31	Inns Quay A	16.7	18	1,076	—	—	—
32	Rathfarnham	16.6	33	1,991	17%	8%	55
33	Clontarf West A	16.6	24	1,443	7%	2%	55
34	Walkinstown B	16.6	13	781	18%	13%	55
35	Pembroke West A	16.2	36	2,228	5%	9%	60
36	Beaumont A	15.8	16	1,012	12%	18%	55
37	Raheny-St. Assam	15.6	24	1,543	6%	10%	54
38	Ballymun F	15.6	14	895	4%	—	—
39	North Dock B	15.4	54	3,514	7%	7%	56
40	Terenure B	15.3	23	1,502	6%	5%	64

Every council on the same measure 0

The 31 councils, same window, same rule. No per-household figures outside Dublin: the census spine is loaded for the Dublin region only.

#	Council	Notices	Applications	Retention	Refused	Median days
1	Dublin City	2,526	5,531	14%	10%	55
2	Cork County	2,267	6,803	21%	8%	66
3	Galway County	1,800	3,895	24%	13%	54
4	Donegal	1,722	5,083	24%	7%	50
5	Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown	1,673	3,871	11%	13%	52
6	Fingal	1,480	3,417	21%	22%	54
7	Meath	1,426	3,475	20%	13%	55
8	Mayo	1,148	2,731	17%	7%	60
9	Kerry	1,096	2,635	30%	12%	63
10	Limerick	1,070	2,823	20%	11%	61
11	Kildare	1,051	3,375	25%	20%	61
12	South Dublin	1,050	2,349	15%	12%	49
13	Clare	969	2,414	20%	6%	55
14	Wexford	957	2,874	27%	16%	54
15	Wicklow	842	2,778	21%	14%	54
16	Tipperary	838	3,074	30%	4%	55
17	Cork City	794	536	18%	6%	62
18	Kilkenny	753	1,889	22%	7%	63
19	Louth	749	2,078	29%	15%	52
20	Waterford	599	2,241	21%	11%	57
21	Westmeath	562	1,366	20%	12%	60
22	Laois	541	1,961	23%	7%	55
23	Cavan	526	1,612	24%	5%	58
24	Monaghan	499	1,297	19%	7%	97
25	Roscommon	490	1,353	22%	12%	98
26	Offaly	452	1,623	21%	9%	77
27	Sligo	441	1,142	24%	7%	52
28	Carlow	328	923	18%	8%	83
29	Galway City	327	692	27%	14%	55
30	Longford	234	611	18%	14%	50
31	Leitrim	203	509	28%	4%	53

How it is counted

A neighbourhood is a CSO electoral division; its households and population are the 2022 census totals of the small areas inside it. Every application, appeal and commencement notice is placed in the division its point falls in.
Household works are applications whose description says extension, attic, dormer, porch, garden room, garage conversion and the like, and does not say apartments, units, commercial, retail or office.
Retention is an application whose type or description says retention — permission for something already built. Its grant rate is shown where at least ten were decided.
Decisions count grants and refusals only; invalid, withdrawn and undecided applications are left out of every rate. Days are from the council’s receipt date to its decision date.
A rate is printed only where the neighbourhood has at least 20 of the thing being rated in the window; smaller ones show counts and are not ranked.

Sources: National Planning Application Database (NPAD), CSO Census 2022 Small Area Population Statistics, An Coimisiún Pleanála case list, Building Control Management System commencement notices · fetched 26 Sept 2026, 03:36

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
National Planning Application Database (NPAD)	CC-BY-4.0	26 Sept 2026, 03:36	open
CSO Census 2022 Small Area Population Statistics	CC-BY-4.0	26 Sept 2026, 03:36	open
An Coimisiún Pleanála case list	CC-BY-4.0	26 Sept 2026, 03:36	open
Building Control Management System commencement notices	CC-BY-4.0	26 Sept 2026, 03:36	open

Recomputed weekly from the store; last built 26 Sept 2026.

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