Donard Demesne East

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Donard Demesne East, from 108 m² to 107,589 m² (10.76 ha, 26.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• M2Primary Development Area (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Donard Town Plan, Wicklow · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R3Secondary Development Area (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
  Donard Town Plan, Wicklow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 30 Apr 2018Refused

  walled garden to east of existing dwelling in existing farm meadow, incorporating a glass house, orchard, wild flower, hedge and vegetable planting. The walls will vary in height from 3m to 4m

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18457

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 Donard Demesne East.

Recorded monuments

• WI021-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on level ground at a break in a gentle NW-facing slope. Oval trivallate site (int. dims. 27m x 23.5m; max. ext. dims. 70m NE-SW; 66m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank surmounted by a stone wall (Wth 4m; H 1.5m) and an external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 1-1.5m). The outer (middle) bank (Wth 3-4.5m; H 1m) lies immediately outside the fosse with a level berm (Wth 3m at SW to 14m at N) between it and the outermost bank (Wth 1.5-3m; H 0.6-1.3m) giving the outermost enclosing element a pronounced oval shape (dims. 62m x 55m). Outside this is a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 2-2.5m; D 1-1.5m). There is a well-defined entrance at the NE consisting of gaps in the inner (Wth 3m) and outermost (Wth 4m) banks with corresponding causeways across the fosses. The middle bank does not survive at this point. An additional bank forms a cuspate entrance feature (L 7m; Wth 2m) within the inner enclosure. The N terminal of the outermost bank turns inwards along the line of the entrance feature for 1.5m with a further bank extending along the same line for another 2m. 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. 117/1940).

Architectural heritage

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey house, built c.1830. The façade is finished in painted roughcast with painted render as a base course, wall edges and as a surround to the doorway. The pitched gable-ended roof is slated and has a rendered chimneystack. The entrance consists of a replacement timber and glazed door. The windows are flat-headed but of various sizes and with various types of timber sash frames, one over one, two over two and three over six. Replacement uPVC rainwater goods. The house faces onto a street.

• House, 1825–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c.1835, now with shop. There is a two-storey mid to later 20th-century extension to the north. The façade is finished in painted roughcast whilst the hipped roof is covered in asbestos slates and has a rendered chimneystack. The extension has a shallow-pitched lean-to roof. The shopfront is to the west elevation and consists of a glazed door and plate glass window encased by reeded pilasters and a painted signboard with reeded brackets. There is a similar signboard over two large plate glass windows to the north elevation. The house windows are flat-headed and are mainly filled with two over two timber sash frames, with replacement top-hung timber frames to some. Replacement uPVC rainwater goods. The house has a street frontage.

• Donard Church, church/chapel, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey gable-ended Board of First Fruits Gothic Church of Ireland church with three-stage tower, built 1835, but with small vestry possibly added c.1860. The building consists of the rectangular nave, with the tower to the west gable and vestry to the east gable. The façade is finished in unpainted render with reveals, drip stones and wall edges and pinnacles, (the last two both to the uppermost stage of the tower), in granite. The pitched roof of the nave is slated and has a granite chimneystack to the east end. The vestry roof consists of pitched and hipped portions with both slated. The tower reduces above the first stage and rises to a parapet with corner pinnacles. The entrance is to the south face of the tower and consists of a timber double door set with a pointed-arch opening with bevelled reveal. The window openings are mostly tall and narrow with pointed arch heads, bevelled reveals and lattice-paned frames; the windows to the second stage of the tower are flat-headed with three-light timber frames with lattice panes. Replacement metal rainwater goods. The church is set on a rise to the side of a road, its relatively small grounds enclosed from the roadside by a tall rubble wall with pedestrian gateway with cast-iron gates.

• Mount Faris, house, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1840. The building is roughly square in plan but with single-storey over basement canted bays to front and small single-storey projection to the rear. To the west side the house is now linked to an outbuilding via a short glazed ‘corridor’ and the south end of the outbuilding has been extended to form a conservatory. The façade is finished in painted roughcast with granite quoins, whilst the hipped roof is slated and has rendered chimneystacks with stone coping and uniform pots. The entrance consists of a partly glazed timber door and segmental fanlight with ‘spider’s web’ tracery, both surrounded by a granite portico with Tuscan columns and respondent pilasters supporting an entablature-like flat roof with cornice. The entrance is reached via a flight of stone steps with simple cast-iron rails at either side of the portico. The windows are generally flat-headed with one over one, two over one, three over six, six over six and twelve over six timber sash frames. Some of the smaller windows to the rear have replacement timer frames, some top-hung, others fixed-lights. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The house is surrounded by a large garden with a large rubble-built outbuilding to the west which fronts onto the roadside.

• Donard House, gate lodge, 1845–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge to Donard House, built c.1855. The façade is finished in painted roughcast whilst the hipped roof is covered in artificial slate and has a central brick chimneystack. The entrance consists of a timber tongue and groove double door and the flat-headed windows have replacement metal frames. Replacement metal rainwater goods. The lodge is set at the main (south-west entrance) to the Donard House demesne, with a relatively simple gate screen to the south side of the building consisting of a low rock-faced wall, similar piers and cast-iron railings and carriage gates.

• Donard House, country house, 1810–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey with basement country house, built in 1813. To the north is small single-storey porch projection of c.1995. The front, north and east facades are finished in painted roughcast with slate cladding to the south. The hipped roof is slated and has rendered chimneystacks with uniform pots. The entrance consists of a panelled timber double door, sidelights and segmental fanlight with ‘spoked’ tracery, all surrounded by a (later) timber porch with a curved roof and lattice screen sides. The windows are flat-headed and have two over two, three over three, six over three and six over six timber sash frames. There are some blind windows to the north and south elevations. The house is set within an extensive demesne and approached via a long drive to the south-west. To the rear of the house is a large yard bounded on the north, south and east sides by two-storey rubble-built outbuildings. Internally the house appears to have retained its original layout and detailing, with the large airy stairwell set to the east of the large entrance hallway.

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 Donard Demesne East, 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 Donard Demesne East.

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 Donard Demesne East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Donard Demesne East · Diméin Dhún Ard Thoir

Area

824,564 m² (82.46 ha, 203.75 acres)

Civil parish

Donard, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Lower

Electoral division

Donard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

586 people lived in 206 households in the Donard electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Crickawn, Donard Demesne West, Donard Upper, Doodys Bottoms, Drumreagh, Intack, Kilcoagh East, Studfield North, Studfield South

Placenames

Donard Demesne East 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.