Carrickavrantry
Townland in the civil parish of Islandikane, barony of Middlethird, Co. Waterford; in Irish Carraig an Bhruinnteora
- Area
- 181.3 ha
- 448 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 8,739 m² (0.87 ha, 2.16 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- HA
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrickavrantry, from 795 m² to 394,388 m² (39.44 ha, 97.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3HA (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 6 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
10 Oct 2025Conditional
alterations to existing planning permission Ref No : 22/928 (construct a new single storey dwelling, new entrance ,driveway , waste water treatment system, remove roadside hedgerow to form passing lay-by and all associated works ) -mainly for redesign of a single storey dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 25147
1 Apr 2025Conditional
the construction of a new 2 storey house, a garage, a waste water treatment system and an entrance along with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2560201
27 Mar 2025N/a
for the construction of a new 2 storey house, a garage, a waste water treatment system and an entrance along with all associated site works
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2560195
30 Sept 2024Conditional
for erection of single storey extension to front of existing Dormer dwelling House
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 24207
28 Oct 2022Conditional
construction of a new single storey dwelling, new entrance, driveway, waste water treatment system, remove roadside hedgerow to form passing lay-by and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 22928
27 Mar 2020Conditional
to erect a dwelling house, sewage treatment system and all ancillary works at
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 20193
18 Nov 2019Conditional
to indefinitely retain a single storey extension with all associated site works to existing dwelling
Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 19873
11 Jul 2019Refused
to erect a dwelling house, sewage treatment system & all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 19510
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Carrickavrantry Reservoir 000660
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Islandtarnsey Fen 000666
Recorded monuments
- WA026-028 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Description
Located towards the top of a gentle N-facing slope. A section of a gallery (L 3m; Wth 0.9-1.1m) with one roofstone in place opens to the SW where it faces into the corner of a field. It is within a small oval cairn. (Ó Nualláin and Walsh 1986, 26, 28) Ó Nualláin, S. and Walsh, P. (1986) A reconsideration of the Tramore passage tombs. PPS 52, 25-9. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 27 May 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrickavrantry.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2215 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Carrickavrantry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Carrickavrantry · Carraig an Bhruinnteora
- Area
- 1,812,840 m² (181.28 ha, 447.96 acres)
- Civil parish
- Islandikane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Middlethird
- Electoral division
- Islandikane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Islandikane electoral division: 2,707 people in 918 households; 93% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynaclogh South, Ballyscanlan, Carrickavarahane, Carrickavrantry North, Carrickavrantry South, Coolnagoppoge, Islandtarsney North, Knockanduff
- Placenames
- Carrickavrantry 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.