Deerpark
Deerpark is a townland in the civil parish of Carnew, barony of Shillelagh, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Páirc na bhFianna.
Parcel 1293725
- Area
- 17,524 m² (1.75 ha, 4.33 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 8 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
- Deerpark
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
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 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- 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.
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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
- 182.5 ha
- 451 acres
- Land parcels
- 60
- registered freehold, median 3,475 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres)
- Zoning
- R3
- Secondary Development Area
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Deerpark, from 176 m² to 178,485 m² (17.85 ha, 44.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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
- R3Secondary Development Area (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
Shillelagh Town Plan, Wicklow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
30 Jun 2026N/a
Permission to construct a grain store / machinery shed and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660591
9 Feb 2026Refused
permission to construct a grain store / machinery shed and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660083
23 Oct 2025N/a
construct a grain store and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560853
6 Dec 2021Conditional
construct a dwelling house with services, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211455
28 Oct 2021Conditional
dwelling, garage and wastewater treatment system to current EPA standards, connection to existing watermain and all associated ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211290
1 Dec 2020Conditional
extension constructed to side of existing dwelling house and permission for retention of domestic garage and all associated site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 201225
23 Aug 2019Conditional
dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system to current EPA standards, connection to existing watermain and all associated ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19936
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Deerpark.
Architectural heritage
- Saint Brigid's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey Catholic church, built 1826. The church has an ashlar granite front gable which is surmounted with a small bellcote; the remainder is finished in render with moulded quoins. It is "T"-plan with a small gabled sacristy to the rear. The front door is set within a double height "Y" tracery glazed screen with a Gothic-arched head. Windows are also Gothic-arched with "Y" tracery. The pitched roof is finished with natural slate with a decorative serrated clay ridge tile and it has a mixture of cast-iron and extruded aluminium rainwater goods. The interior is well preserved with a late 19th century altar and reredos. The church is surrounded by a graveyard.
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 Deerpark, 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 high, 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 Deerpark.
- 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 Deerpark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Deerpark · Páirc na bhFianna
- Area
- 1,824,636 m² (182.46 ha, 450.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Carnew, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shillelagh
- Electoral division
- Coolattin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 286 people lived in 100 households in the Coolattin electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballard, Ballyknocker, Ballyknocker East, Coolattin, Cronyhorn Upper, Tomacork
- Placenames
- Deerpark 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.