Downings

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Downings, from 15 m² to 327,158 m² (32.72 ha, 80.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Downings in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

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

• 27 Sept 2024Conditional

  to construct 3no. additional mushroom growing tunnels, hardstand area and all associated site works at existing mushroom growing facility

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2460306

• 14 Dec 2023Conditional

  of the relocation of the following : a treatment system and percolation area, 3 no. mushroom growing tunnels and packing room, granted under PL17/305 and planning permission to construct 3 no. additional mushroom growing tunnels and all associated site works

  Retention · Carlow County Council, 23196

• 4 Dec 2023N/a

  retention planning permission of the relocation of the following : a treatment system and percolation area, 3 no. mushroom growing tunnels and packing room, granted under PL17/305 and planning permission to construct 3 no. additional mushroom growing tunnels and all associated site works

  Retention · Carlow County Council, 23194

• 13 Nov 2023N/a

  retention planning permission of the relocation of the following : a treatment system and percolation area, 3 no. mushroom growing tunnels and packing room, granted under PL17/305 and planning permission to construct 3 no. additional mushroom growing tunnels and all associated site works

  Retention · Carlow County Council, 23185

• 14 Aug 2023Conditional

  to construct a boiler housing unit and Wood Chip Silo and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 23137

• 19 Jun 2023N/a

  to construct a boiler housing unit and Wood Chip Silo and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 23104

• 29 May 2023N/a

  to construct a boiler housing unit and Wood Chip Silo and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2390

• 6 Apr 2023Conditional

  to construct 712 no. ground mounted PV panels and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2366

• 23 Feb 2023Conditional

  the development will consist of: Construction of a single storey agricultural shed building and all associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2340

• 10 Feb 2023N/a

  construction of a single storey agricultural shed building and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2330

• 24 Oct 2022Conditional

  for the demolition of a wind turbine of 150kw that was erected with planning ref. number 09125 and apply for Planning Permission to erect a 500kw wind turbine, located at the south-east corner of our land, with a hub height of 65 meters and a blade diameter of 44 meters, with underground ducting connecting to existing ESB substation and all associated site works

  Retention · Carlow County Council, 22368

• 20 Jun 2022Conditional

  for the retention of a biomass boiler and storage silo facility and all associated works

  Retention · Carlow County Council, 22211

• 19 Feb 2018N/a

  planning permission to construct a single storey extension (3 no. mushroom growers units) to the rear of existing mushroom growing facility (granted under planning reference number PL 08/122). Retention planning permission for one number single storey mushroom growing unit and access hallway, retention for a two storey portacabin office block and redirection of access road way, retention of existing on site waste water treatment system and percolation area. Permission to relocate portacabin offices (now to be a single storey) new car parking layout, construction of a new integrated wetland system consisting of three treatment ponds for stormwater treatment and construction of a stormwater management system comprising of one number attenuation pond, a single storey extension to the existing factory (refrigeration unit) and loading bay area, hardstand area, perimeter landscaping and all associated site works.

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 1850

• 7 Feb 2018Conditional

  Planning permission for alterations to previously granted PL. Ref No. 17/175 (the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house with domestic garage, treatment system, percolation area, site entrance, connection to mains water and all other associated site works), consisting of an increase in floor area of 20.56m2 & revisions to all elevations of the dwelling house.

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 1831

• 24 Oct 2017Conditional

  Planning permission to construct 7 no. additional mushroom growing tunnels and a single storey packing unit at existing mushroom processing facility, covered work area to the rear connecting the 7 no. tunnels, connection to existing onsite drainage system, extension to existing concrete hardstand area, continuation of existing landscaping to roadside boundary (R727), use of existing entrances and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 17305

• 29 May 2017Conditional

  the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house with domestic garage, treatment system, percolation area, site entrance, connection to mains water and all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 17175

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781

Recorded monuments

• CW008-013 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Marked 'Site of Castle' on 1839 'OS 6-inch' map. No visible surface traces.

• CW008-062 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.AG.33) shows cropmark of an incomplete circular enclosure defined by a fosse. Bisected by field boundary. Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of upload: 10 June 2009

• CW008-091 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. A roughly circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 34m) identified as a cropmark by Faith Bailey and Simon Dowling on satellite imagery (Google Earth Pro, imagery date 14 July 2018). The enclose is defined by a wide (Wth c. 5m) fosse, with a wide gap (Wth c. 13m) in the N-NE sector which may be an entrance. There is a castle (CW008-013----) c. 130m to the SW. See attached image: CW008-091----_01 Google Earth Pro Image © 2019 CNES/Airbus Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 5 November 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Downings.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2658 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Downings with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Downings · Na Dúnáin

Area

2,788,252 m² (278.83 ha, 688.99 acres)

Civil parish

Tullowphelim, and its townlands

Barony

Rathvilly

Electoral division

Tankardstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tankardstown electoral division: 487 people in 160 households; 91% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhacket Lower, Ballymurphy, Coppenagh, Grangewat, Kilmagarvoge, Slaneyquarter, Straboe

Placenames

Downings 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.