Aghfarrell
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbride (Baltinglass Ra), barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Áth Fhearaíl
Parcel 1277877
- Area
- 84 m²
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Aghfarrell
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3052 (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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 5 ha
- 12 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 3,754 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- HA-DM
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghfarrell, from 84 m² to 24,874 m² (2.49 ha, 6.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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-DM (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 4 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
19 Sept 2025Refuse permission
The development will consist of the importation and spreading of inert material (clays/stone and soils) over lands consisting of 11.387 hectare for purposes of land recovery for agricultural activity, together with all ancillary works, including remedial works to existing laneway, to provide access to the proposed development from the existing entrance on the Ballyfolan Road (L7002). The development comprises an activity requiring a waste licence.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD25A/0230
25 Aug 2025Invalidate application
The development will consist of the importation and spreading of inert material (Clays / Stone and Soils ) over lands consisting of 11.387 hectare for the purposes of land recovery for agricultural activity, together with all ancillary works, including remedial works to the existing laneway, to provide access to the proposed development from the existing entrance on the Ballyfolan Road (L7002)
Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD25A/0198
27 Oct 2022Conditional
a single storey garden room; area 65sqm; to the rear (north)of an existing detached dwelling. The structure is to be used as a home office and fitness rooms only in conjunction with the principal dwelling
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221136
24 May 2019Conditional
17 sqm single storey extension to the side of existing 75 sqm single storey dwelling and associated site works, 70 sqm single storey domestic shed to the side of existing dwelling and associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 19561
24 Apr 2018Conditional
garage together with retention for existing entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18428
29 Jul 2016Refuse permission
Establishment and operation of a waste recovery facility which provides for the importation and re-use of naturally occurring inert soil and stone to backfill and remediate part of a former sand and gravel pit void with restoration to forestry on a 1.15 hectare site, within an overall planning application area of 3.0 hectares. It includes provision for temporary infrastructure including a site office and a waste inspection area.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD16A/0273
19 Nov 2008Declared withdrawn
Single storey detached structure to be used as a clubhouse to accommodate male/female toilets, store, meeting room with a wheelchair access, a new single storey detached structure to be used for firing booths, retention of the existing car parking, water treatment unit with a percolation area and associated site works at the existing Dublin Target/Gun/Archery Sports Club.
Permission and retention · South Dublin County Council, SD08A/0787
30 Jul 2008Grant permission
(a) Continuance of use of the existing quarry on lands that have been used for this purpose since before 1st October 1964 on a site registered under Section 261 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (Quarry Reference SDQU05A/1); (b) all existing ancillary facilities including the existing processing plant (crushing and screening plant), overburden storage areas, stockpile areas, water management system and the truck/vehicle parking area; (c) extension of the existing quarry extraction area by 4.2 hectares, within the registered area, to give a total extraction area of 15.5 hectares within an overall application area of 28.1 hectares; (d) provision of a wheelwash and hydrocarbon interceptor; (e) landscaping and final restoration of the site. This application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Statement.
Permission · South Dublin County Council, SD07A/0276
27 Sept 2005Registered application
Application for registration of a quarry under Section 261 of Planning & Development Act 2000.
Quarry registration · South Dublin County Council, SDQU05A/1
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Aghfarrell.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghfarrell.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghfarrell.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3052 (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 Aghfarrell with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Aghfarrell · Áth Fhearaíl
- Area
- 49,509 m² (4.95 ha, 12.23 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbride (Baltinglass Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Lower
- Electoral division
- Kilbride, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilbride electoral division: 1,093 people in 367 households; 85% of households own their home; 15% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghfarrell (Co. Dublin), Butter Mountain
- Placenames
- Aghfarrell 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.