Tiknock

572 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tiknock, from 4 m² to 76,996 m² (7.7 ha, 19.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 558 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M3Local Shops & Services (District, neighbourhood centre)
  Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community & Education (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3pNHA (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Passive Open Space (Open space, park)
  Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M5Mixed Use (Other mix of uses)
  Arklow and Environs Local Area 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.

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Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Arklow Town Marsh 001931

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tiknock.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay one and a half-storey house, built c.1900. The building is one of a planned, slightly picturesque, terrace of similar dwellings. The façade is finished in brick, with some of the brick around the entrance and ground floor windows painted. The pitched roof is slated and has a slight overhang with plain bargeboards and fascia, serrated ridge tiles and a shared brick chimneystack. The entrance consists of a timber ‘tongue and groove’ door. The windows have very shallow segmental heads and multiple-pane timber frames and painted concrete sills. The upper floor window is set within a gabled dormer which is shared with the neighbouring house. uPVC rainwater goods. To the front of the house is a small garden, enclosed from the roadside by a painted picket fence.

• Beech Grove, house, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay one and a half-storey half dormered house, built c.1890. The house is constructed in semi-coursed granite rubble with brick dressings. The replacement panelled door is set within a flat-headed opening and has a bracketed lean-to slated canopy. Window openings are flat-headed and have one over one timber sash frames. The dormer gable is topped with a small stone finial. The pitched roof is slated with serrated clay ridge tiles and rainwater goods are cast-iron; the brick chimneystacks have corbelled caps and clay pots. The house is prominently sited at the junction of Ferrybank and Bridge Lane.

• Ferrybank National School, school, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey former national school, built 1892, and now in use as a National Training and Development Centre. The building is constructed in semi-coursed rubble granite with brick dressings. To the north is a recent modern addition. The south gable has a triple lancet window and is surmounted by a small stone finial. The timber sheeted door has a six pane fanlight and all are set within a flat-headed opening with a brick flat arch. The door sits in a brick gabled bay which projects slightly. Above the door is a small inscribed stone plaque which reads ‘Ferrybank School 1892’. Window openings have shallow pointed arch-headed openings with six over nine timber sash frames. The pitched roof is slated, with serrated clay ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods and projecting eaves course. The brick chimneystack has a corbelled cap and clay pots. The building is set in a small lane and is positioned behind a low rubble granite wall.

• Ferrybank Sunday School, school, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay single-storey former Sunday School hall, built c.1890, and now in use as a National Training and Development Centre. The building is constructed in semi-coursed rubble granite with brick dressings. To the north is a recent modern lean-to addition. The west gable has a triple lancet window with multiple-paned metal frames. That to the east has an oculus multiple paned metal frame. The timber sheeted door is set within a small lean-to porch. Window openings have shallow pointed arch-headed openings with multiple-paned metal frames. The pitched roof is slated, with serrated clay ridge tiles, a tall central fleche, cast-iron rainwater goods and projecting eaves course. The building is set in a small lane and is positioned behind a low rubble granite wall.

• The Old Rectory, house, 1910–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1920. The house is finished in lined render. The panelled door has multiple-pane sidelights and sits in a slightly projecting flat-roofed recent porch addition. To either side is a single-storey canted bay. The porch and canted bays are all flat-roofed and have decorative fascia boards. Window openings are flat-headed and have one over one and two over two timber sash frames. The roof is slated with cast-iron rainwater goods. Replacement chimneystacks are rendered with concrete copestones and tall clay pots. The house is well set back behind a rendered wall with square gate pillars and cast-iron gate. It is within a large mature garden.

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 Tiknock, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3350 (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 Tiknock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Tiknock

Area

671,665 m² (67.17 ha, 165.97 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbride, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Arklow No. 2 Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,023 people lived in 1,129 households in the Arklow No. 2 Urban electoral division. 61% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ferrybank, Kilbride, Killiniskyduff, Marsh, Seabank

Placenames

Tiknock 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.