Irishtown Park
Irishtown Park is a townland in the civil parish of Donard, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Páirc an Bhaile Ghaelaigh.
Parcel 1277417
- Area
- 216,550 m² (21.66 ha, 53.51 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Irishtown Park
Planning applications on this parcel
27 Oct 2020N/a
dwelling house, garage, on site sewerage treatment system, agricultural shed for the storage of goats, dairy, alteration to existing entrance, all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 201086
4 Feb 2020Conditional
existing 45 sqm single storey, timber cabin for non habitable purposes, located in garden of existing house
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2096
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- WI021-001 Enclosure
Description
Situated on the summit of a low hill with extensive views. Oval enclosure (dims. c. 60m NW-SE; c. 50m NE-SW) defined by a waterlogged flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 5m at the SE - 8.5m at the NE; D 0.7m) and an external bank (Wth 4.7m; ext. H 1-1.6m). The interior is level and heavily overgrown, with no indication of a perimeter bank, 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 on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 39 ha
- 96 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 2,072 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Irishtown Park, from 930 m² to 216,550 m² (21.66 ha, 53.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Irishtown Park 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
27 Oct 2020N/a
dwelling house, garage, on site sewerage treatment system, agricultural shed for the storage of goats, dairy, alteration to existing entrance, all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 201086
4 Feb 2020Conditional
existing 45 sqm single storey, timber cabin for non habitable purposes, located in garden of existing house
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2096
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Irishtown Park.
Recorded monuments
- WI021-001 Enclosure
Description
Situated on the summit of a low hill with extensive views. Oval enclosure (dims. c. 60m NW-SE; c. 50m NE-SW) defined by a waterlogged flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 5m at the SE - 8.5m at the NE; D 0.7m) and an external bank (Wth 4.7m; ext. H 1-1.6m). The interior is level and heavily overgrown, with no indication of a perimeter bank, 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 Irishtown Park.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Irishtown Park, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Irishtown Park with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Irishtown Park · Páirc an Bhaile Ghaelaigh
- Area
- 390,497 m² (39.05 ha, 96.49 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
- Ballylion Upper, Broomfields, Coolharbour Upper, Irishtown East, Irishtown West
- Placenames
- Irishtown Park 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.