Tigroney West

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tigroney West, from 121 m² to 88,208 m² (8.82 ha, 21.8 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 Tigroney West 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Tigroney West in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Tigroney West.

Recorded monuments

• WI035-030001 Church
  Description

  Situated in a natural hollow with a steep downhill slope (to the Avoca river) immediately to the W of the site. No visible trace of the church site mentioned by Price (1967, 467), said to have been founded here by Palladius. A holy well (Tobernacla, WI035-030002-), which is marked on both editions of the OS 6-inch map is located in nearby rock outcrop. 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

• WI035-030002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Situated in a steep NE-facing rock outcrop, near a possible church site (WI035-030001-). Natural spring surrounded by boulders; recently tidied and embellished. Marked as 'Tobernacla' on 1838 OS 6-inch map, possibly tobar na cloiche or 'well of the stones'. 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

• WI035-066 Mound
  Description

  Situated on the highest point of the shoulder of a hill that rises to the NE with good views to the NW to Croghan Moira and the SW to Croghan Kinsella. A grass covered mound (diam. 15m; H 0.6m) composed primarily of earth but some stone also visible. A field boundary (running NW-SE) skirts the SW edge of the mound. Compiled by: Chris Corlett and Claire Breen Date of upload: 06 March 2013

Architectural heritage

• Avoca Copper and Sulphur Mines, mine/pit, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Ruins of various copper and sulphur mainly open cast mines, established c.1850. The grouping comprises now mainly ruinous buildings tall industrial chimneys and various tramways. The buildings are all roofless and are constructed in granite while the chimneys are constructed either in brick or a mixture of brick and stone. Large scars are still visible across the landscape.

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 Tigroney West, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3292 (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 Tigroney West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Tigroney West · Teach gCróinín Thiar

Area

1,507,708 m² (150.77 ha, 372.56 acres)

Civil parish

Castlemacadam, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Cronebane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

533 people lived in 195 households in the Cronebane electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygahan Lower, Castlehoward, Cherrymount, Cronebane, Kilcashel, Knockanode, Tigroney East

Placenames

Tigroney West 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.