Goldenfort

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Goldenfort, from 93 m² to 146,465 m² (14.65 ha, 36.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Goldenfort 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.

• 11 Oct 2024Conditional

  the erection and operation of a c. 1MW photovoltaic energy development on c. 1.65ha, which includes fixed panels on ground mounted frames, customer/ESB substation unit which will be connected to the national grid with overhead line, electrical transformers, inverters, switchgear, underground cabling and ducting, boundary fencing, security entrance gates, CCTV, internal access road and all associated ancillary activities. The operational lifespan will be 35 years. A five-year planning permission is being sought

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460627

• 21 Nov 2022Conditional

  new shed with roof mounted 6kw Photo Voltaic Solar Panel electricity generating system to rear of existing dwelling

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221228

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 Goldenfort.

Recorded monuments

• WI020-021 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on flat marshy terrain at the W foot of gentle slope. Circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) shown the 1838 and 1907 OS 6-inch maps as partly intruded on by railway embankment. Neither the enclosure nor the embankment are visible at ground level. 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 December 2008

• WI021-042001 Burial ground
  Description

  Situated on level ground overlooking a gentle W-facing slope. Quadrangular graveyard (dims. 60m E-W; 30-40m N-S) enclosed by iron railings. The site is on a low circular platform (diam. 80m), possibly the remnant of an earlier enclosure (WI021-042003-). There is a possible font base (octagonal with circular socket and two narrow slots) (WI021-042002-) at the centre of the graveyard with a small granite pillar beside it (possibly associated). There is no visible trace of a church. 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 December 2008 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 122/1940).

• WI021-042002 Font
  Description

  Within a burial ground (WI021-042001-) on level ground overlooking a gentle W-facing slope. An octagonal, granite font base (max. Wth 0.32m; T 0.2m) with a central circular hole. The font is broken at one side but otherwise well preserved. Two chisel-cut slots (D 0.02-0.03m) remain on the upper flat side of the font, there may have been others on the broken part. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 5 December 2012 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 122/1940).

• WI021-042003 Enclosure
  Description

  On level ground overlooking a gentle W-facing slope. A slightly raised area (diam. c. 80m) defined to N and S by a marked drop within which is a burial ground (WI021-042001-) and a font base (WI021-042002-). Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 5 December 2012 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 122/1940).

• WI021-078 Burial mound
  Description

  Situated on a gentle SW-facing slope in landscaped demesne lands SW of Goldenfort House. Circular platform (diam. 30m; H 1m) with no trace of a bank, fosse or internal features. Human bones, including three skulls, were found during sand extraction at beginning of this century on the NE side. The site appears to have been utilised as a landscape feature, probably a tree-ring in the 18th century. (Price 1937, 127) 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 December 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Goldenfort, about 1 in 10 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_2727 (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 Goldenfort with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Goldenfort

Area

1,475,997 m² (147.6 ha, 364.73 acres)

Civil parish

Rathbran, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Tuckmill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

314 people lived in 104 households in the Tuckmill electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Burrow, Gibraltar, Lowtown, Mattymount, Rampere, Rathbran

Placenames

Goldenfort 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.