Woodenboley

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Woodenboley, from 452 m² to 631,077 m² (63.11 ha, 155.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Woodenboley 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.

• 21 Nov 2025Conditional

  single storey extension with two bedrooms, kitchen-dining area, boot room and bathroom. Decommissioning of the existing septic tank and replacement with new foul water treatment system and polishing filter. Demolishing of existing horse stables, site works, surface water drainage and landscaping

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560950

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Hollywood Glen 002053

Recorded monuments

• WI015-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at a break in a steep SW-facing slope in forestry. Circular area (diam. 20m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.4-2.8m; H 0.5m) and an external fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.2-0.35m). No evidence 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 Woodenboley, 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 Woodenboley.

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

Name

Woodenboley · Buaile Chrainn

Area

1,575,918 m² (157.59 ha, 389.42 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

Ballymooney, Conlans Hill, Drumreagh, Kilbaylet Upper, Mullycagh Upper, Toor

Placenames

Woodenboley 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.