Friarshill

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Friarshill, from 106 m² to 1,199 m². The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Wicklow Town - Rathnew Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 19 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Wicklow Town - Rathnew Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Natural Areas (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Wicklow Town - Rathnew Local Area 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.

• 28 Nov 2022N/a

  first floor extension to the side and rear

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221263

• 19 Oct 2021Conditional

  sub division of site and the provision of new 104m2 detached bungalow to the side garden of no. 39 Friars Hill Road. Provision also sought for new vehicular entrance to serve proposed dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211255

• 7 Jan 2021Unconditional

  extend the appropriate period of 15/627 - three number two storey dwelling houses, with driveways, access, walls, drainage, landscaping and ancillary works

  Extension of duration · Wicklow County Council, 215

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 the townland of Friarshill.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Friarshill.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Friarshill.

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 Friarshill, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map gives no landslide susceptibility class here. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3401 (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 Friarshill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Friarshill · Cnoc na mBráithre

Area

46,593 m² (4.66 ha, 11.51 acres)

Civil parish

Rathnew, and its townlands

Barony

Newcastle

Electoral division

Wicklow Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

7,102 people lived in 2,753 households in the Wicklow Urban electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynerrin, Bollarney South, Glebe, Wicklow

Placenames

Friarshill 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.