Toberbeg
Toberbeg is a townland in the civil parish of Dunlavin, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is An Tobar Beag.
Parcel 1279918
- Area
- 979 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 97 m².
- 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
- Toberbeg
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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 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 moderately low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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
- 101.2 ha
- 250 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 3,300 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toberbeg, from 85 m² to 61,764 m² (6.18 ha, 15.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Toberbeg 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
28 Oct 2025Conditional
existing domestic garage (floor area: 39.7m²) as an ancillary building to the main dwelling (previously granted under Planning Ref. No. 00/2915), and associated site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560863
1 Sept 2025Conditional
as-constructed dwelling house, effluent treatment system, bored well, stable shed, entrance, revised site boundary as previously granted by PRR 21/92 and all ancillary site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560676
30 Oct 2024Conditional
construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, on site sewerage treatment system, alteration to existing entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460662
23 Apr 2024Conditional
the construction of a single storey dwelling house, onsite secondary sewerage treatment system, domestic garage, 2 box stable building, dung heap and all ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 24192
21 Mar 2024Conditional
erection of a new entrance access road to farmyard and ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 24140
5 Dec 2023N/a
to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, on site sewerage treatment system, alteration to existing entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23885
9 May 2023N/a
construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, O'Reilly Oaktown sewerage treatment system, alterations to existing entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23442
28 Apr 2023N/a
to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, O Reilly Oaktown sewerage treatment system, alterations to existing entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 23417
22 Dec 2022Conditional
erection of a new cubicle shed, underground slatted slurry tank, overground slurry tower, manure pit, silage pit extension incorporating new wall and floor, new walled silage pit, roof over topless cubicles, roof over existing slatted animal feeding and exercise yard, concrete yards and ancillary works.
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221400
23 Dec 2021Conditional
demolition of existing single storey dwelling and adjacent garage, proposed single storey replacement dwelling and flat roof domestic garage, relocation of domestic garden store, proposed treatment system and percolation area, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211563
4 Feb 2021Conditional
a dwelling, effluent treatment system and entrance
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2192
30 Apr 2019N/a
two storey dwelling, Aswaflow wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter and all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19453
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 Toberbeg.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Toberbeg.
Architectural heritage
- Tynte Park, gate lodge, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge to Tynte Park, built c.1850, and now in use as a private home. The building is constructed in rubble with the central bay to the front, edge pilasters and dressings in brick, a rendered base course and bracketed stone eaves course. The pitched roof is slated and has rendered chimneystacks and Velux windows. The entrance, which is set within a recessed bay flanked by large gabled bays, consists of a panelled timber door and semi-circular fanlight. The windows are flat-headed and have replacement timber frames. Above the windows there is a curious stone hood. Replacement metal rainwater goods. Tall rendered walls extended to the rear of the building, presumably enclosing a yard. The property is set on a roadside (opposite one of the gateways to Tynte Park) and has a small garden in front enclosed by a low rubble wall and iron railings.
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 Toberbeg, 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 Toberbeg.
- 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 Toberbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Toberbeg · An Tobar Beag
- Area
- 1,011,925 m² (101.19 ha, 250.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dunlavin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Lower
- Electoral division
- Dunlavin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,580 people lived in 526 households in the Dunlavin electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Boherboy, Cowpasture, Decoy, Loughmogue Lower, Loughmogue Upper, Plezica, Uppertown
- Placenames
- Toberbeg 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.