Templemichael

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Templemichael, from 1,441 m² to 344,564 m² (34.46 ha, 85.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Templemichael 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.

• 5 Dec 2025N/a

  detached log cabin as granny flat ancillary to existing dwelling with connection to all services and associated site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560988

• 14 Oct 2025N/a

  detached log cabin as granny flat ancillary to existing dwelling with connection to all services and associated site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560819

• 15 Sept 2021Conditional

  a 10 year permission for the construction of a Solar PV Energy development within a total site area of up to 32 hA, to include one single storey electrical substation building, electrical transformer/inverter station modules, battery storage modules, solar PV panels ground mounted on steel support structures, access tracks, fencing and associated electrical cabling, ducting and ancillary infrastructure

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211131

• 18 Aug 2021N/a

  dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211031

• 20 Feb 2020Conditional

  single storey dwelling with garage, entrance, well, effluent treatment system to EPA and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20165

• 5 Jul 2019Conditional

  single storey dwelling (223 sqm), new detached garage (30 sqm), new vehicular access to site, new septic tank and percolation area, all above with associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19721

• 3 Oct 2018N/a

  proposed dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA 2009 standards, garage, new entrance and associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 181085

• 6 Nov 2017N/a

  dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system to EPA 2009 standards and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 171338

• 18 Jul 2017Conditional

  extension of 36.35 sqm to existing dwelling house of 140.52 sqm along with alterations to existing dwelling house and associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17863

• 10 Feb 2017Conditional

  change of use of part of existing domestic garage / store to use as a granny flat ancillary to the existing dwelling house

  Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17141

• 19 Jan 2017N/a

  retention of a change of use of part of existing domestic garage/store to use as a granny flat ancillary to the existing dwelling house

  Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 1743

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 Templemichael.

Recorded monuments

• WI040-007001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a gentle SE-facing slope. The remains of a poorly preserved rectangular structure (dims. c. 15.5m E-W; c. 7m N-S) defined by a low stony bank (Wth 2.5-3m; H 0.5m). The graveyard contains some mid-eighteenth century headstones and is still in use. It is a D-shaped area (dims. 42m NW-SE; 39m NE-SW) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2m; H 1.2m) with external drystone facing. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 September 2013

• WI040-007002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a gentle SE-facing slope. The remains of a poorly preserved rectangular structure (dims. c. 15.5m E-W; c. 7m N-S) defined by a low stony bank (Wth 2.5-3m; H 0.5m). The graveyard contains some mid-eighteenth century headstones and is still in use. It is a D-shaped area (dims. 42m NW-SE; 39m NE-SW) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2m; H 1.2m) with external drystone facing. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 September 2013

• WI040-007003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a gentle SE-facing slope. D-shaped area (dims. 42m NW-SE; 39m NE-SW) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2m; H 1.2m) with external drystone facing. Church (WI040-007001-) and graveyard (WI040-007002-) within enclosure. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 September 2013

• WI040-067 Enclosure
  Description

  Located in a relatively flat location (c. 85m OD) in a gently undulating landscape characterised by tillage and pastoral farming. Located towards the W boundary of a large field currently in use for tillage purposes (July 2021). Landscape slopes gently upwards from a small unnamed stream located c. 185m to the SW to a highpoint (c. 272m OD) located c. 1.94kms to the NNE. Site located immediately adjacent to the S of the D-shaped enclosure surrounding the ruins of Templemichael Church (WI040-007001-) and its associated graveyard (WI040-007002-), and c. 1.55kms E\ENE of a ring-barrow (WI040-006----) at Ballinakill. This enclosure is visible as a cropmark on Google Earth aerial photograph of the site (July 2021). It consists of a circular feature (ext. dims c. 31.15m N-S x 30.31m E-W) that is defined by a continuous ditch (Wth c. 2.52m) that is largely visible around the entire circuit. No definitive evidence for an entrance gap. Compiled by: T.J. O'Meara based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Uploaded on: 29/06/2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 Templemichael, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3325 (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 Templemichael with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Templemichael · Teampall Mhichíl

Area

699,060 m² (69.91 ha, 172.74 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbride, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Kilbride, the unit of the census

Census 2022

928 people lived in 304 households in the Kilbride electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinabrannagh, Ballinakill, Ballinclea, Barranisky East, Barranisky West, Carrycole, Snugborough

Placenames

Templemichael 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.