Dragoonhill

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dragoonhill, from 41 m² to 397,251 m² (39.73 ha, 98.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Dragoonhill 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.

• 4 Nov 2022Conditional

  relocate and erect replacement 'HOLLYWOOD' sign and associated site works including perimeter fencing

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221171

• 31 Oct 2019Conditional

  importation and deposition of up to 16,606m3 of inert subsoil and topsoil arising from the N81 Knockroe Bend Realignment project only, for land re-profiling and re-contouring purposes at existing agricultural lands of 1.4 hectares and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 191186

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 Dragoonhill.

Recorded monuments

• WI009-017002 Church
  Description

  Situated on a low steep-sided knoll. The present church, possibly of 17th-century date, may occupy the location of the medieval church which was first mentioned in 1219-28 when it belonged to the convent of Timolin (MacNeill 1950, 58). Within the graveyard there is a 16th- or 17th-century graveslab (now reerected as a headstone). This is a tapering granite slab (present L 1.36m; Wth 0.49-0.67m; T 0.17m) with an equal-armed Maltese cross on a narrow stem defined by a shallow groove. A small granite disc-headed cross dated 166..? also stood in the graveyard (Drury 1901-03, 511) and there is a granite mortar or piscina with four lugs in the church. This site was part of the medieval borough of Hollywood (WI009-017----). (Bradley and King 1989, 48-52) 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

• WI009-017003 Graveyard
  Description

  An oval-shaped graveyard (dims. c. 64m N-S; 58m E-W) with St. Kevin's C of I church (WI009-017002-) near its centre at the summit of a knoll. The graveyard is on a much lower level than the church on the S, W and N. Bounded by a public road at E side. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 13 December 2012

• WI009-017004 Graveslab
  Description

  Within the graveyard (WI009-017003-), an earthfast, gently tapering granite stone (dims. H 1.36m; Wth 0.49-0.67m; T 0.17m) with an equal-armed Maltese cross on a narrow stem defined by a shallow groove. (Corlett 2003, 99-100) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 13 December 2012

• WI009-017005 Cross
  Description

  A small lichen-covered granite disc-headed cross (H 3ft. 6in/ 1/06m) dated 166+ stands in NW quadrant of graveyard (WI009-017003-) (Mems Dead V 1901-03, 511). See attached image taken from the Memorials of the Dead Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 13 December 2012

• WI009-017006 Cross-inscribed stone
  Description

  In the NW corner of a graveyard (WI009-017003-), just NE of another cross-inscribed stone (WI009-017004-). An earthfast (but leaning sharply W) slightly tapering, granite stone (dims. H 0.8m; Wth 0.62-0.65m; T 0.17m) carries an incised Latin cross with expanded terminals on a narrow, incised shaft on its E face. (Corlett 2003, 99-100) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 13 December 2012

• WI009-017007 Cross-inscribed stone
  Description

  In a graveyard (WI009-017003-), just SSW of a church (WI009-017002-) An earthfast, slightly tapering, granite stone (dims. H 0.6m; Wth 0.37-0.45m; T 0.2m) carries an incised Latin cross with expanded terminals. (Corlett 2003, 99-100) Compiled by: Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 13 December 2012

• WI009-017008 Graveslab
  Description

  Discovered in a graveyard (WI009-017003-), lying some 10m S of a church (WI009-017002-). The granite slab measures 75cm long and 12cm thick. The slab is 40cm wide at the top and 53cm wide at the base where it has broken. This tapering form implies that this represents the lower end of a larger slab, whereby the main cross was located on the missing part of the slab. The incised splayed cross is equal armed (34cm across and 34cm high). From the lower transom of the cross an incised shaft or stem (11cm total width) extends down the face of the slab, and originally would probably have linked this cross with the main cross at the top of the slab. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17 October 2011

• WI009-017009 Graveslab
  Description

  Discovered in a graveyard (WI009-017003-), lying some 10m S of the E-end of a church (WI009-017002-). This complete granite slab measures 1.06m long, 0.44m wide at the top, 0.33m wide at the base and is 0.10m thick. The incised cross is splayed and measures 0.28m high and 0.255m across. From the lower transom a shaft (6cm to 6.5cm total width) extends down the slab for a distance of 0.23m, and stops without any formal terminal, or in a terminal cross as might be expected. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 17-10-2011

• WI009-017010 Cross-slab
  Description

  In S quadrant of graveyard (WI009-017003-), lying S of St. Kevin’s C of I Church (WI009-017002-). Maltese cross carved in relief on E face of granite slab with traces of an incised circle beneath cross which suggests that this may have been an encircled maltese cross on the east face of a low upright granite boulder. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 26 August 2019

• WI009-032001 Cave
  Description

  Situated within a steep, rocky cliff-face on the NW foothills of Slievecorragh. A natural vertical cavity in the cliff-face; St Kevin is traditionally said to have slept here. See cave (WI023-021----) at Lugduff (Glendalough), also known as 'St Kevin's Bed'. 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

• WI009-032002 Cave
  Description

  Situated in the steep, rocky cliff-face on the E side of a narrow N-S valley. A small natural cave (dims. 3.7m x 2m; H 2.2-1.7m) traditionally associated with St Kevin. 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

• WI009-036 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on a slightly E-facing slope just off the crest of a ridge. A roughly D-shaped area (dims 30m N-S; c. 27m E-W) enclosed by a bank ( Wth 3-3.5m; ext. H 0.4m; Int. H 0.3m) from NW to ESE which is reduced to a scarp edge (H 0.3m) elsewhere. Entrance (Wth 3m) at ESE. There are traces of a fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.15m) along the NW and from ENE to E. The site appears to have been straightened or possibly truncated slightly along the S possibly by a field boundary since removed. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 13 December 2012

Architectural heritage

• Saint Kevin's Church (Hollywood), church/chapel, 1670–1690 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey gable-ended Church of Ireland church, built c.1680, now disused. The building has a simple rectangular plan with later off-centre lean-to porch to the front (west) gable and a small lean-to to the south. The side walls are battered. The building is partly clad in slate with roughcast over, and partly finished in a replacement render; granite eaves course. The pitched roof is slated and has a granite bellcote and parapets, and a small rendered chimneystack. The entrance is to the north face of the porch and consists of a timber door. Most of the windows have pointed arch heads, with those to the north and south filled with multiple-pane timber frames, whilst the east window has an elliptical head, stone Y-tracery and stained glass. Replacement metal rainwater goods. The church is set on a slight rise and surrounded by a graveyard.

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 Dragoonhill, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dragoonhill.

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 Dragoonhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Dragoonhill · Cnoc an Dragúin

Area

906,457 m² (90.65 ha, 223.99 acres)

Civil parish

Hollywood, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Lower

Electoral division

Hollywood, the unit of the census

Census 2022

820 people lived in 271 households in the Hollywood electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Hollywood Upper, Knockroe, Rathattin, Scalp, Slievecorragh

Placenames

Dragoonhill 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.