Bonabrocka
Townland in the civil parish of Dunganstown, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Bánóg Mhurcha
- Area
- 86.6 ha
- 214 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 655 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bonabrocka, from 85 m² to 786,771 m² (78.68 ha, 194.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Bonabrocka 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
23 Mar 2022Conditional
removal of planning condition no. 13 of planning ref 98/8880 (from restricted use of dwelling to use by all classes of persons)
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22280
18 Oct 2021Conditional
single storey extension and alterations to existing house along with the retention for the as constructed dwelling house, along with a proposed effluent disposal system to current EPA requirements and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211251
27 Aug 2021Conditional
revised site boundaries, new percolation area to current epa standards and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211066
11 Oct 2017Conditional
three no polytunnels of 360 sqm each, new treatment plant and soil polishing filter to replace existing system and associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 171240
20 Mar 2017Conditional
reclamation of land through the filling of material comprising clay, silt, sand, gravel and stone on a site having an area of 2.64 ha for the purpose of improvement of land, together with site access and associated site works. The proposed development relates to an activity which requires a waste licence
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17284
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 Bonabrocka.
Recorded monuments
- WI031-019 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a gentle NE-facing slope. Trivallate enclosure visible as a cropmark on aerial photograph (CUCAP, BGP 88). An inner fosse (diam. c. 25m) is visible with two concentric closely spaced fosses at a distance of c. 15m (max. ext. diam. c. 70m). An annexe is attached at the NW. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
- WI031-055 Ring-ditch
Description
Cropmark of a circular enclosure (est. diam c. 20m) in tillage visible on aerial photographs (taken by Michael Moore on the 16 July 2006). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 17 July 2013
- WI031-056 Enclosure
Description
Cropmark of a circular enclosure in tillage visible on aerial photographs (taken by Michael Moore on the 16 July 2006). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 17 July 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bonabrocka.
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 20 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bonabrocka.
- 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 Bonabrocka with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Bonabrocka · Bánóg Mhurcha
- Area
- 866,206 m² (86.62 ha, 214.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dunganstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Dunganstown East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dunganstown East electoral division: 925 people in 305 households; 83% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinteskin, Ballyhara, Ballykeppoge, Blackditch, Cullen Lower, Gormanstown, Newtown, Threemilewater
- Placenames
- Bonabrocka 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.