Dunganstown West

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunganstown West, from 20 m² to 665,673 m² (66.57 ha, 164.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Dunganstown 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.

• 4 Mar 2026Conditional

  amendments to previously approved planning reg. ref. 22/461: i. revised site boundaries; ii. amendment to condition 3(a); iii. all necessary ancillary & site works to facilitate this development

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660153

• 18 Sept 2025Conditional

  single storey dwelling house & garage with proposed effluent disposal system to current EPA requirements and associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560735

• 13 Nov 2024N/a

  single storey dwelling house & garage with proposed effluent disposal system to current EPA requirements and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460706

• 22 Mar 2023Conditional

  1. Full planning permission is been sought for a proposed secondary treatment system to current EPA guidelines with percolation area and all associated site works, 2. retention permission is been sought for the following (a) an existing glass conservatory circa 19.6sqm connected to existing dwelling (b) the retention of an existing grain store to a games room and office room circa 60.4sqm and (c) the retention of the part conversion of an existing out building to a one bedroom holiday let unit/short term let unit circa 73.5sqm and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 23281

• 29 Apr 2022Conditional

  a) change of use from consultants rooms, previously approved under PP 16/750, to include the provision of workshop-type short term overnight accommodation directly associated with Grassroots Nutrition b) All necessary ancillary & site works to facilitate the development

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22461

• 3 Jul 2018Conditional

  demolition of 238m sq. of existing shed and construction of a new 554m sq. agricultural building for use as a dry store/barn

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18746

• 18 Jun 2018N/a

  554 sqm agricultural building for use as a dry store / barn

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18670

• 20 Apr 2017Conditional

  single storey extension for use as a sessional childcare facility to the rear of existing preschool (Little Ladybirds Preschool) to accommodate an additional 11 children and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17431

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 Dunganstown West.

Recorded monuments

• WI031-023 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  Situated in gently undulating terrain just S of the 18th or early 19th-century Dunganstown House. The lands at Dunganstown were part of the estate of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem and these were granted in 1597 to Sir John Hoey after the dissolution of the monasteries. The house was probably built in the early 17th century. It consists of a central rectangular block (min. dims. 16.45m E-W; 6.5m N-S) with three storeys and an attic, and Jacobean or Dutch gables. It has two rectangular wings extending from either side to the S (L from façade to S end of the gables 13.4m). A stair tower is attached to the N side of the main block (ext dims. c. 6.43m E-W; 6.25m N-S). There may have been an additional building to the E of this attached to the back of the E wing. The front of the main block is in three bays with a central doorway and a single central window in the gabled attic. No cut stone survives at ground-floor level. Internal features include traces of plaster (probably original) and a fireplace at first-floor level. The attic appears to have been reached by a wooden stairs. The site was apparently damaged in the 1640s and was certainly in ruins in 1655-6 (according to the Down Survey). However, the hood-mouldings over some of the windows may be slightly later, and there are two granite piers to the N of the castle, which may be 18th century in date. There is also a decorated cut stone 'wishing seat' to the S. (Murray 1958, 342) 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

• WI031-035 Church
  Description

  Price (1967, 441) noted that 'a new church was built near Dunganstown House in the latter part of the seventeenth century (? c. 1670)'. The possible location for this is at St. Kevin's church, where the tower structure to the WNW appears to be earlier in date than the rest of the church. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 July 2013

• WI031-035001 Graveyard
  Description

  A sub-rectangular shaped graveyard (dims. 64m ENE-WNW x 92m WNW- ESE) enclosed by a stone wall with entrance gates to ESE and second smaller gate to E which was presumably a route to Dunganstown House (WI031-023----). Price (1967, 441) noted that 'a new church was built near Dunganstown House in the latter part of the seventeenth century (? c. 1670)'. There are a number of early 18th century graveslabs in-situ in the W half of the graveyard and some which have recently been moved to their present location against the N wall of the graveyard. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 July 2013

• WI031-053 Enclosure
  Description

  A cropmark of a large circular enclosure in tillage visible on an aerial photograph (taken by Mr. Michael Moore of the 16 July 2006). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 17 July 2013

• WI031-054 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of a circular bivallate enclosure (est. ext. diam. c. 60m), in level tillage, visible on aerial photographs (taken by Michael Moore on 16 July 2006). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 17 July 2013

• WI031-114 Enclosure
  Description

  Located in a gently undulating landscape (c. 70m OD) characterised by tillage and pastoral farming, and located to SW of the centre of a field currently in use for tillage farming (July 2021). Landscape gently slopes upwards from SW to NE from Potters River to the SW. Site located c. 800m NE of a church (WI031-035---) and c. 649m NE of the remains of a house (WI031-023----) of sixteenth\seventeenth century date, indicated as ‘Dunganstown Castle’ on the Ordnance survey first ed. six-inch map of c. 1840, and c. 2.17kms NW of a church site (WI036-009001-), set within a graveyard (WI036-009006-) and ecclesiastical enclosure (WI036-009002-), at Castletimon. Site located c. 250m ESE of the cropmark of a circular enclosure (WI031-054----), which is located within the same tillage field. This enclosure is visible on the Google Earth aerial photograph of the site (July 2021). It consists of circular feature (ext. dims c. 38.1m N-S x 39.23m E-W) that is defined by an ditch (Wth c. 2.01m) that is most clearly visible along the N arc running from the W side of the feature to the SE quadrant in the above aerial photograph. No visible evidence for an entrance gap. Compiled by: T.J. O'Meara based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Uploaded on: 03/07/2023

Architectural heritage

• Dunganstown House, country house, 1835–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey country house, built, c.1845. This may have replaced an earlier house. The country house is finished in dry-dash render with a smooth render base. The panelled door has decorative sidelights which are each flanked by panelled pilasters with console brackets; these support a projecting cornice and an elliptical-headed tear-drop pattern fanlight. The door has recent concrete steps. Window openings are flat-headed with six over six timber sash frames. The roof is finished with natural slate and uPVC rainwater goods. Chimneystacks are rendered with corbelled caps and no pots. The house is set within a small wooded demesne. To the north is a range of outbuildings and to the south is the ruinous Dunganstown Castle. All appear to share the original demesne. The garden is separated from the farmyard by a high rubble wall which has a semi-circular arched opening which is surmounted by the remains of a bellcote.

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 Dunganstown West, 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 Dunganstown West.

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

Name

Dunganstown West · Baile Uí Dhonnagáin Thiar

Area

1,373,125 m² (137.31 ha, 339.31 acres)

Civil parish

Dunganstown, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Dunganstown East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

925 people lived in 305 households in the Dunganstown East electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinacor East, Ballydowling, Ballymoney, Ballyvaltron, Cullen Upper, Dunganstown East, Kilbride

Placenames

Dunganstown 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.