# Arklow, Co. Wexford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clonmines, barony of Shelburne, Co. Wexford; in Irish Arcló. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 511,048 m² (51.1 ha, 126.28 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,069 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clonmines, https://everytownland.com/wexford/parish/clonmines.md - Barony: Shelburne - Electoral division: Tintern, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,744 people lived in 636 households in the Tintern electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wexford, https://everytownland.com/wexford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/53583 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 240027 - Centre: latitude 52.271236, longitude -6.794079 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Arklow, from 1,914 m² to 106,777 m² (10.68 ha, 26.39 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 425017: 106,777 m² (10.68 ha, 26.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/425017.md - Parcel 5544551: 101,304 m² (10.13 ha, 25.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5544551.md - Parcel 386140: 95,129 m² (9.51 ha, 23.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/386140.md - Parcel 417274: 89,411 m² (8.94 ha, 22.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/417274.md - Parcel 403642: 19,525 m² (1.95 ha, 4.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/403642.md - Parcel 5544533: 6,171 m² (0.62 ha, 1.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5544533.md - Parcel 5414999: 3,164 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5414999.md - Parcel 2678923: 3,069 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2678923.md - Parcel 378204: 3,059 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/378204.md - Parcel 2688903: 2,895 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2688903.md - Parcel 2678920: 2,681 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2678920.md - Parcel 363072: 2,392 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/363072.md - Parcel 372666: 2,276 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/372666.md - Parcel 2582337: 2,174 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2582337.md - Parcel 2582335: 1,914 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2582335.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Arklow in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 7 Nov 2023, Wexford County Council 20231343: Granted (conditional). Permission. Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/126240 - 15 Dec 2022, Wexford County Council 20221668: Refused. Permission, 1 home. Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/124670 - 2 Nov 2017, Wexford County Council 20171411: Granted (conditional). Permission, 1 home. PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARA. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/wexford/application-details/104911 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Bannow Bay SAC, site code 000697, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000697 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bannow Bay, site code 000697 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WX040-079: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWX040-079----. Located at the crest of the steep NE-facing slope down to the meandering NW-SE Owenduff river, with the stream c. 100m to the E. The faint cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 55m) defined by a single fosse feature W-N-SE incorporating the parch mark of a removed and curving field bank SE-W is visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP. WX 98. 26-8). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 18 February, 2013 Amended: 1 May, 2014 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Arklow. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Arklow, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Arklow. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wexford/arklow.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wexford/arklow.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wexford/arklow.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Arklow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford: https://everytownland.com/wexford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Clonmines: https://everytownland.com/wexford/clonmines.md - Loughnageer: https://everytownland.com/wexford/loughnageer.md - Saintleonards: https://everytownland.com/wexford/saintleonards.md - Taylorstown: https://everytownland.com/wexford/taylorstown.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wexford/arklow - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wexford/arklow