Springfield
Springfield is a townland in the civil parish of Arklow, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Gort an Tobair.
Parcel 2720513
- Area
- 20,318 m² (2.03 ha, 5.02 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
- Springfield
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
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 3 recorded monuments.
- WI045-010001 Church
Description
Situated at the base of a steep NE-facing slope. There is no trace of the church apart from a rectangular platform (dims. c. 20m NW-SE; 15m NE-SW) within a marshy hollow, said locally to be the site of the church. The graveyard lies to the SW and is defined by the road at the SE and by a field boundary at the NW. It is known locally as a graveyard, and it is said that shipwrecked sailors were buried here. Noted in the OS letters (O'Flanagan 1928, 137) as a children's burial ground, which suggests either that the graveyard was not consecrated, or was used for unbaptised babies and victims of drowning after it had fallen out of general use. St Iver's holy well lies to the N (WI045-004----). 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
- WI045-010002 Graveyard
Description
Situated at the base of a steep NE-facing slope. There is no trace of the church apart from a rectangular platform (dims. c. 20m NW-SE; 15m NE-SW) within a marshy hollow, said locally to be the site of the church. The graveyard lies to the SW and is defined by the road at the SE and by a field boundary at the NW. It is known locally as a graveyard, and it is said that shipwrecked sailors were buried here. Noted in the OS letters (O'Flanagan 1928, 137) as a children's burial ground, which suggests either that the graveyard was not consecrated, or was used for unbaptised babies and victims of drowning after it had fallen out of general use. St Iver's holy well lies to the N (WI045-004----). 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: 26 September 2013
- WI045-010003 Children's burial ground
Description
Situated at the base of a steep NE-facing slope. There is no trace of the church apart from a rectangular platform (dims. c. 20m NW-SE; 15m NE-SW) within a marshy hollow, said locally to be the site of the church. The graveyard lies to the SW and is defined by the road at the SE and by a field boundary at the NW. It is known locally as a graveyard, and it is said that shipwrecked sailors were buried here. Noted in the OS letters (O'Flanagan 1928, 137) as a children's burial ground, which suggests either that the graveyard was not consecrated, or was used for unbaptised babies and victims of drowning after it had fallen out of general use. St Iver's holy well lies to the N (WI045-004----). 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: 26 September 2013
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 20 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.
- 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
- 57.6 ha
- 142 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 3,249 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Springfield, from 269 m² to 261,722 m² (26.17 ha, 64.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Springfield 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
No planning application touches the townland of Springfield 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.
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 Springfield.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Springfield.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Springfield.
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 Springfield, about 1 in 20 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3330 (ZIP).
- 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 Springfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Springfield · Gort an Tobair
- Area
- 575,578 m² (57.56 ha, 142.23 acres)
- Civil parish
- Arklow, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Arklow Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,415 people lived in 498 households in the Arklow Rural electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinabanoge, Bogland, Rock Big, Rockbog, Whitepark (Co. Wexford)
- Placenames
- Springfield 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.