Castlemacadam

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlemacadam, from 2 m² to 346,348 m² (34.63 ha, 85.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R3Secondary Development Area (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
  Avoca Town Plan, Wicklow · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Primary Development Area (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Avoca Town Plan, Wicklow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 8 Aug 2024Conditional

  the demolition of the existing single storey lean-to kitchen side extension and the replacement thereof with a single storey gabled kitchen side extension 31.3sqm, 5.3sqm bootroom , a new dining room rear extension 43.6sqm with patio and all associated external works and landscaping

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460488

• 10 May 2022Conditional

  the decommissioning and demolition of the existing Avoca Wastewater Treatment Plant, and the construction of a new Wastewater Treatment Plant to include: a new foul pump station, inlet works, storm tank, aeration tank, 2 no. final settlement tanks, sludge drying reed beds, 2 no. RAS/WAS Pump Stations, new administration building, final effluent outfall headwall, emergency flow headwall, surface water drainage settlement pond and outfall, and all ancillary works including pipework, pumps, sumps, chambers, air blowers and tanks;new access off the Tower Avenue : and all associated site development, site excavation and landscaping works, including fencing/boundary treatments, above and below ground

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22503

• 23 Apr 2021Conditional

  installation of a walking track with public lighting around the perimeter of the community field encompassing the GAA and soccer pitches (approx. 620m). The track shall be elevated on the easterly side where Irish Rail have erected a boundary fence. This area shall be protected with a handrail/fence so it can be used as a viewing and amenity area for games and accessed one end by a ramped area and the other end by steps and associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21463

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Avoca River Valley 001748

Recorded monuments

• WI040-003 Enclosure
  Description

  Circular enclosed feature indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map (map dims. diam. c. 23m). Not indicated on the later editions of the OS maps and nothing visible at ground level when inspected by ASI in 1990 at which stage area was in dense forestry. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 17 September 2013

• WI040-004001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a level spur overlooking the Avoca valley to the E. The church is shown as a rectangular structure on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. It was located c. 60m SW of the now abandoned 19th-century church and there is now no trace at ground level. The graveyard is quadrangular, defined by a modern stone wall, and contains a number of late 18th and 19th-century headstones. The road which curves around the graveyard may represent the line of the original enclosure. 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

• WI040-004002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a level spur overlooking the Avoca valley to the E. The church is shown as a rectangular structure on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. It was located c. 60m SW of the now abandoned 19th-century church and there is now no trace at ground level. The graveyard is quadrangular, defined by a modern stone wall, and contains a number of late 18th and 19th-century headstones. The road which curves around the graveyard may represent the line of the original enclosure. 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 September 2013

• WI040-004003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a level spur overlooking the Avoca valley to the E. The church is shown as a rectangular structure on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. It was located c. 60m SW of the now abandoned 19th-century church and there is now no trace at ground level. The graveyard is quadrangular, defined by a modern stone wall, and contains a number of late 18th and 19th-century headstones. The road which curves around the graveyard may represent the line of the original enclosure. 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 September 2013

• WI040-004004 Graveslab
  Description

  A number of late 18th and 19th-century headstones were recorded in the graveyard here when inspected by ASI in 1990. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 17 September 2013

• WI040-005 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on the NW edge of a spur of ground overlooking the Avoca River. Only one wall (L 5m; H 3m) of the castle survives, c. 80m SW of the 19th-century church (now abandoned). The castle stood within the medieval borough of Carysfort (WI034-010----). (Price 1936, 51-2) 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 Castlemacadam.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Castlemacadam, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3265 (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.

No address of the register names Castlemacadam with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Castlemacadam · Caisleán Mhic Ádaim

Area

841,267 m² (84.13 ha, 207.88 acres)

Civil parish

Castlemacadam, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Ovoca, the unit of the census

Census 2022

728 people lived in 263 households in the Ovoca electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 10% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballanagh, Ballinapark, Ballymoneen, Garnagowlan, Kilmagig Lower, Kilqueeny, Parknashaw

Placenames

Castlemacadam 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.