Altidore Demesne
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcoole, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Altidore
- Area
- 106.6 ha
- 263 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 4,505 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Altidore Demesne, from 43 m² to 798,118 m² (79.81 ha, 197.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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
No zone of a development plan covers Altidore Demesne in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
6 Aug 2024Refused
a new dwelling, bored well, effluent disposal system to EPA guidelines 2021, new entrance on to public road and associated siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460478
25 Oct 2023Conditional
change of house type to that granted under planning ref 23/60162 and associate works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360378
12 Sept 2023Conditional
alterations to previously approved planning application granted Ref:20/1003 for new dwelling, domestic garage and associated site works. The proposed alterations include new position and orientation of house / garage. New proposed finish floor level to suit the existing site elevations, associated modifications to site layout and modifications to roof layout
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360274
17 Aug 2023N/a
alterations to previously approved planning application granted Ref:20/1033 for new dwelling, domestic garage and associated site works. The proposed alterations include new position and orientation of house / garage. New proposed finish floor level to suit the existing site elevations, associated modifications to site layout and modifications to roof layout
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2360227
27 Jul 2023N/a
alterations to previously approved planning application granted Ref:0347/2021 for new dwelling, domestic garage and associated site works. The proposed alterations include new position and orientation of house / garage. New proposed finish floor level to suit the existing site elevations, associated modifications to site layout and modifications to roof layout
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360180
19 Jul 2023Conditional
the construction of a new dwelling, wastewater treatment unit & polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto public road and associate works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360162
16 Jun 2022Conditional
new dwelling, forming new entrance on to public road, bored well, effluent disposal system to EPA guidelines 2021 and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22677
24 May 2022N/a
new dwelling, forming new entrance on to public road, bored well, effluent disposal system to EPA guidelines 2021 and associate site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22564
19 Nov 2021N/a
new dwelling, forming new entrance on to public road, bored well, effluent disposal system to EPA guidelines 2021 and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211385
9 Oct 2020Conditional
dwelling, garage, forming new entrance onto public road, bored well, effluent disposal system to EPA guidelines 2009 and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 201003
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 Altidore Demesne.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Altidore Demesne.
Architectural heritage
- Altidore Castle, country house, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
Description
Detached seven-bay two-storey over basement toy castle-style country house, built c.1780. The country house is finished in render with stone and moulded dressings. With the fall on the ground it is two-storey to the front and three-storey to the rear. The front door has a Gibbsian surround and is covered with a flat-roofed portico. This is set in a three-bay breakfront with a Venetian window to the first floor. Window openings are generally flat-headed with one over one timber sash frames. To each corner of the building there is an octagonal castellated tower. The hipped roof is finished with natural slate. The country house is set at the head of a long driveway within a large mature garden. The driveway begins with decorative wrought-iron gates and square panelled gate pillars.
- Altidore Castle, gate lodge, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Detached two-bay single-storey former gate lodge to Altidore Castle, built c.1840. The building is not occupied. It is finished in recent roughcast render; each gable is pedimented with dentil decoration. To the rear north there is a recent lean-to addition. Door and window openings are all flat-headed and are now boarded over. The pitched roof is finished with natural slate and has uPVC rainwater goods. The chimneystack is rendered with corbelled cap and clay pot. The building is set outside the gate screen which has decorative wrought-iron gates and square panelled gate pillars.
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Altidore Demesne.
- 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 Altidore Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Altidore Demesne · Altidore
- Area
- 1,065,935 m² (106.59 ha, 263.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcoole, and its townlands
- Barony
- Newcastle
- Electoral division
- Altidore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Altidore electoral division: 388 people in 139 households; 86% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinashinnagh, Ballinasoostia, Ballyhorsey, Cooladoyle, Drumbawn, Glendarragh, Killinpark, Tinnapark Demesne
- Placenames
- Altidore Demesne 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.