Blackmoor
Blackmoor is a townland in the civil parish of Donard, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is An Currach Dubh.
Parcel 1286370
- Area
- 2,221 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 214 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
- Blackmoor
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 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.
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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
- 123.2 ha
- 304 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 2,856 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blackmoor, from 57 m² to 404,519 m² (40.45 ha, 99.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Blackmoor 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
20 Feb 2023Conditional
change of use (removal of condition 7 of planning reg. ref. 01/4894) from restricted use to use by all classes of persons
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23152
3 Jun 2020Conditional
demolition of the existing dwelling and construction of a new dwelling, new wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new well, upgrading of existing entrance, upgrading of existing lane and associate works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20521
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 Blackmoor.
Recorded monuments
- WI015-058 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a gentle NW-facing slope overlooking a stream valley. Rectangular enclosure (dims. 45m NW-SE; 38m NE-SW) defined by a degraded earthen bank and an external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3.5m). The NW and SE sides are incorporated into field boundaries. No indication of 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
- WI015-087 Standing stone
Description
In pasture, on a gentle NW-facing ridge slope. An irregular, top heavy, granite pillar (H 1.9m; L 2.3m; Wth 0.76m; max. T 0.85m) inclining sharply to the W. The stone has a N-S long axis. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 10 January 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Blackmoor.
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 Blackmoor, 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 Blackmoor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Blackmoor · An Currach Dubh
- Area
- 1,231,861 m² (123.19 ha, 304.4 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
- Annalecky, Broomfields, Coolharbour Upper, Doodys Bottoms, Intack, Kilbaylet Upper, Merginstown Demesne, Merginstown Glen, Mullycagh Lower
- Placenames
- Blackmoor 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.