Athgarvan
Athgarvan is a townland in the civil parish of Hollywood, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Áth Garbháin.
- Area
- 21.7 ha
- 54 acres
- Land parcels
- 1
- registered freehold, median 217,016 m² (21.7 ha, 53.63 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Athgarvan, from 217,016 m² (21.7 ha, 53.63 acres) to 217,016 m² (21.7 ha, 53.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Athgarvan 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
1 May 2025Conditional
for A) The proposed construction of a new split level (part single/part two storey) dwelling and on-site waste water treatment system and percolation area. B) The provision of a new vehicular avenue (including amendment of a previously granted avenue to provide access to applicant’s brothers dwelling under Reg. Ref. 23314). C) The proposed upgrading of an existing recessed vehicular entrance which will serve as a shared entrance arrangement serving the proposed dwelling and applicants Uncles dwelling. D) The proposed removal of an existing site entrance and its replacement with native hedgerow. E) A proposed new stable building with associated Dung Stead and waste treatment. F) And all associated landscaping, boundary and site works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of: A) The removal of the previously proposed stables, in their entirety, including the associated vehicular access and dung stead. B) The reduction in scale of the proposed dwelling, including the removal of the previously proposed lower ground floor. C) Relocation of the proposed dwelling to a more level part of the site. D) Amendments to the proposed vehicular routes within the site including additional Engineers drawings. E) Fully detail landscaping plans. F) An Appropriate Assessment screening report. G) Additional site drawings
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560454
8 Apr 2025N/a
for A) The proposed construction of a new split level (part single/part two storey) dwelling and on-site waste water treatment system and percolation area. B) The provision of a new vehicular avenue (including amendment of a previously granted avenue to provide access to applicant’s bothers dwelling under Reg. Ref. 23314). C) The proposed upgrading of an existing recessed vehicular entrance which will serve as a shared entrance arrangement serving the proposed dwelling and applicants Uncles dwelling. D) The proposed removal of an existing site entrance and its replacement with native hedgerow. E) A proposed new stable building with associated Dung Stead and waste treatment. F) And all associated landscaping, boundary and site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560374
29 Mar 2023Conditional
(a) the proposed construction of a new 2 storey dwelling and on-site waste water treatment system and percolation area, (b) the provision of a new vehicular avenue, (c) the proposed upgrading of an existing recessed vehicular entrance which will serve as a shared entrance arrangement serving the proposed dwelling and applicants brothers dwelling, (d) the proposed removal of an existing site entrance and its replacement with native hedgerow, (e) and all associated landscaping, boundary and site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23314
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 Athgarvan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Athgarvan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Athgarvan.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Athgarvan, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Athgarvan.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Athgarvan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Athgarvan · Áth Garbháin
- Area
- 217,016 m² (21.7 ha, 53.63 acres)
- Civil parish
- Hollywood, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Lower
- Electoral division
- Hollywood, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 820 people lived in 271 households in the Hollywood electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballysize Lower, Blakestown Lower, Silverhill Lower (Co. Kildare), Silverhill Upper (Co. Kildare)
- Placenames
- Athgarvan 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.