Tornant Lower

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tornant Lower, from 72 m² to 268,510 m² (26.85 ha, 66.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• C2.1Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Dunlavin Town Plan, Wicklow · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Active Open Space (Active open space)
  Dunlavin Town Plan, Wicklow · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 14 Feb 2017N/a

  dwelling house, secondary sewerage treatment system and percolation area, new entrance, domestic garage, and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17158

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 Tornant Lower.

Recorded monuments

• WI015-030 Enclosure
  Description

  Listed as an 'enclosure' in the SMR (1986) and as a possible 'enclosure' in the RMP (1995). O'Donovan (1838-40, 177) refers to 'two small raths partly defaced in the N side' of this townland. Depicted as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) on the 1st Edition OS 6-inch map (1838). On a gentle NW-facing slope in improved pasture. No visible surface trace. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 20 December 2012

• WI015-032 Enclosure
  Description

  Listed as an 'enclosure' in the SMR (1986) and as a possible 'enclosure' in the RMP (1995). O'Donovan (1838-40, 177) refers to 'two small raths partly defaced in the N side' of this townland. Depicted as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) on the 1st Edition OS 6-inch map (1838). On a gentle N/NW-facing slope bisected by a drainage gully. No visible surface trace. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 20 December 2012

• WI015-033 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Situated in marshy ground on a gentle N/NW-facing slope. A natural spring recently provided with stone housing. The well is traditionally associated with the baptism of children and the pattern days were on the 24th to the 26th of June (OS Name Books). 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

• WI015-034 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  National Monument in state ownership No. 531. Situated towards the N end of a low ridge with extensive views to the N and E. A modified steep-sided natural hillock with a flat summit (dims. 24m N-S; 36m E-W; H 4m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 6-6.5m; int. H 1.2-1.7m). From SSE-W-NE there is an external fosse (Wth 5-7m; D 1.5m) cut into the lower slopes of the hillock, outside which there is an outer bank (Wth 5m; ext. H 2m). The site has been damaged at the E by quarrying but there appears to have been an annexe (dims. c. 26m E-W; 20m N-S) in this area enclosed by a continuation of the outer bank (max. external dims. 57m N-S; c. 80m E-W). No indication of an entrance or internal features. 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

• WI015-035001 Burial
  Description

  Crouched inhumation found at a depth of 1m on the W edge of a sand esker during road-widening on the E edge of Tornant burial ground (WI015-035002-). (NMI files) 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

• WI015-035002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a gentle N-facing slope with E-W ridge to the N and SE. The site is approximately rectangular (dims. 60m E-W; 40m N-S) and is contained within a stone wall, possibly modern. While there are no pre-18th-century gravestones obviously visible, the graveyard contains fragments of a medieval cross (WI015-035003-). A crouched inhumation (WI015-035001-) came to light at the E edge of the graveyard during road widening. 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. Updated by: Gearoid Conroy Date of update: 15 November 2022

• WI015-035003 Cross
  Description

  Recently discovered in a graveyard (WI015-035002-). Three disarticulated carved stone fragments which are likely to be from a single cross: portion of a cross-shaft, a cross-head and a possible cross-base. A gently splaying, granite, cross shaft fragment, which includes its base, is loosely earthfast and was likely reused as a grave marker (L 52cm; Wth 21cm; T 12cm at base; T 14cm at top). The surviving upper end shows a relatively clean break and the angles of the shaft are slightly rounded. Both sides and one face are plain, while on the opposite face there is a central, linear band (L 31cm; Wth 4cm) which is slightly raised (H 0.5 to 0.8cm) proud of the face. This band stops abruptly at a horizontal ledge that punctuates the bottom of the shaft which would have been inserted in a socket. This portion of the face has been reduced by about 1cm but this reduction does not extend around the sides or across the opposite face. See attached image: WI015-035003-_1 C. Corlett 11-10-2022 A granite cross head (Wth 52cm; H 42cm; T 14cm) rests on the ground surface. Just below the arms, there is a relatively clean break across the shaft, the dimensions of which (Wth 21.5cm; T 14cm) closely match those of the shaft fragment described above. A low, circular bosse (H 1cm; diam. 7cm) is carved between the cross arms and there appears to be a raised ridge extending vertically below the bosse, but it is quite weathered and poorly defined. On the opposite face, the crudely incised letters ‘gD’ are carved in the upper arm and the year ‘1712’ across the transverse arms (with a gap between ‘17’ and ‘12’ at the centre of the cross arms). This carving is clearly secondary and probably indicates reuse as a grave marked at the beginning of the 18th century. See attached images: WI015-035003-_2 and WI015-035003-_3 C. Corlett 11-10-2022 A possible cross base survives as a badly damaged, partly earthfast, rectangular granite block (L 50cm; Wth 26cm; H 33cm). Only one side along with a short return of one end of the socket (D 23cm) it contains survives. While the opposite end is missing, a scar-line where the side has broken away suggests that the socket was c. 21cm in width. The surviving socket-side is straight-sided and the bottom of the socket is flat suggesting it is the remains of a cross base. There is no trace of decoration on the external sides, which are quite rounded and only crudely shaped. See attached images: WI015-035003-_4 and WI015-035003-_5 C. Corlett 11-10-2022 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 15 November 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 Tornant Lower, 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

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

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

Name

Tornant Lower · Tor Neanta Íochtarach

Area

1,103,462 m² (110.35 ha, 272.67 acres)

Civil parish

Dunlavin, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Lower

Electoral division

Dunlavin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,580 people lived in 526 households in the Dunlavin electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballylaffin, Dunlavin Lower, Dunlavin Upper, Milltown, Rathbawn, Rathsallagh, Tornant Upper

Placenames

Tornant Lower 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.