Gormanstown

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gormanstown, from 1,415 m² to 265,616 m² (26.56 ha, 65.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Gormanstown 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.

• 12 May 2025Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new well, block up existing entrance onto public road, new entrance onto public road and associate works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560351

• 22 Jul 2024N/a

  a proposed new dwelling, new garage , well, a proposed secondary treatment system to current EPA guidelines with percolation area, a new entrance off public road and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460435

• 20 Jan 2023N/a

  new single storey dwelling and garage, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, new site entrance, driveway and associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2337

• 26 Apr 2022Refused

  a proposed new dwelling, new garage, well, a propose secondary treatment system to current EPA guidelines with percolation area, a new entrance off public road and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22450

• 27 Jan 2021Conditional

  proposed new 31 sq.m. garage connected to existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2165

• 8 Feb 2017Conditional

  dwelling and garage, new secondary treatment system and percolation area to current EPA guidelines, a new well, a new vehicular entrance and all associated site works (16/772)

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17132

• 27 Jan 2017N/a

  dwelling and garage, new secondary treatment system and percolation area to current EPA guidelines, a new well, a new vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission consequent · Wicklow County Council, 1777

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 Gormanstown.

Recorded monuments

• WI031-018 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a gentle N-facing slope. Shown on 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure, and as a mound (diam. c. 30m) on the 1907 edition. Not visible at ground level. 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

• WI031-052 Enclosure
  Description

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

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gormanstown, 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 Gormanstown.

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

Name

Gormanstown · Baile Ghormáin

Area

853,643 m² (85.36 ha, 210.94 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

Ballydowling, Ballykeppoge, Ballymoney, Bonabrocka, Cullen Lower

Placenames

Gormanstown 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.