Britonstown

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Britonstown, from 35 m² to 116,064 m² (11.61 ha, 28.68 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Britonstown 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.

• 15 Apr 2026Conditional

  minor fenestration alterations to the existing dwelling as constructed including the insertion of two dormer windows in the rear roof slope at attic storage level, for as constructed garage/outbuildings incorporating 2 stables and covered dungstead, associated siteworks, and for permission for change of use i.e. the removal of Condition 2 of Planning Reference 05-3838 from restricted use as a dwelling to use by all classes of persons, at Britonstown, Hollywood. The dwelling was previously granted under planning permission reg. ref. no. 05-3838

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2660307

• 10 Jun 2025N/a

  minor fenestration alterations to the existing dwelling as constructed including the insertion of two dormer windows in the rear roof slope at attic storage level, for existing domestic garage and store as constructed and for permission for change of use i.e. the removal of Condition 2 of Planning Reference 05/3838 from restricted use as a dwelling to use by all classes of persons

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560427

• 13 Feb 2025Conditional

  construction of a single storey dwelling with onsite waste water treatment system to current EPA guidelines, detached domestic garage, entrance to be shared with existing recessed entrance granted under PPRR 08/29, and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560077

• 29 Jan 2025Conditional

  structural steel shed and all associated site works. The shed is required for dry storage purposes, e.g. jeep and trailers. The proposed shed will have a floor area of 33.75 sq.m

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2520

• 21 Jul 2021Conditional

  change of use of existing detached single storey domestic garage (with home office and garden shed previously granted under PPRR 20/834) to independent family living accommodation and associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21871

• 26 Aug 2020Conditional

  detached single storey domestic garage incorporating a home office & garden shed and for all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20834

• 23 Dec 2019Conditional

  renovation and extension of existing one and two storey farmhouse and barn (ground floor 109 sqm / first floor 23 sqm) to include rear ground floor (21.7 sqm) and first floor (60.6 sqm) extensions, giving the house a total gross floor area of 215.2 sqm, general renovation including restoration of stonework, insulation, windows and roof and associated landscaping and site works, including the relocation of the existing site entrance and the installation of a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 191384

• 28 Sept 2017Conditional

  change of use, removal of condition 2(a) of Planning Reference 04/348 from restricted use as a dwelling to use by all classes of persons

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 171175

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Poulaphouca Reservoir SPA 004063
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Poulaphouca Reservoir 000731

Recorded monuments

• WI009-035 Mound
  Description

  In pasture, on a steep N-facing slope. A grass-covered gravel mound (dims. 11m N-S; 10m E-W; max. H 1.1m ), slightly slumped at N where it may possibly have been cut by a now levelled field boundary which ran on an E-W axis. A relatively straight line of four orthostats (max H 0.75m) possibly forms a kerb NE->ENE. A large quartz boulder has been dumped on the mound at WSW. At WNW a quartz orthostat (Wth 0.7m; T 0.2m; H 0.6m) inclines outwards. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 13 December 2012

• WI009-039 Flat cemetery
  Description

  A long cist was discovered in a garden in early 1980. This led to a rescue excavation being undertaken in the course of which two further cists were revealed c. 2m N of the first. All three cists were orientated E-W with the heads of the burials at the W. Cist 1 had been covered by a low mound which was removed mechanically prior to the excavation: the nature of this mound is unknown. The cist (L 1.9m; Wth 0.45m at W narrowing to 0.15m at E) was orientated E-W and built of thin slabs standing on edge in a prepared pit. The cist was unpaved but had been covered by a least six roofing slabs. It contained an extended skeleton lying on its back. Cist 2 was discovered 1.4m to the N of Cist 1. It had been robbed of its roofing slabs and one side slab in antiquity and the cist reflled. The cist (L 1.63m; 0.47m at W narrowing to 0.33m at E) was unpaved. Some bones of the original interment were discovered at a high level in the fill and one roofing slab had fallen inwards on the burial. The slabs used in its construction were regular and well formed, giving a depth of up to 0.35m. The enclosed skeleton was fully extended and lay on its back. Adjoining it at the N was Cist 3 which partly overlapped its E end. Cist 3 (L 1.65m; Wth 0.39m at W narrowing to 0.21m at E) was undisturbed and roofed by 10 slabs. The enclosed skeleton was fully extended and lay on its back. It is possible that the builders of Cist 3 may have removed the roofing slabs from Cist 2 for use in its construction. Three pits and a number of stake holes were discovered close to the three burials. One of the pits contained a deposit of slag and it may represents the remains of a furnace. The stake holes attest the existence of shelters of some kind but the only artifact found was half of the lower stone of a rotary disc quern. In the course of further ground works in January 2013 at least six further cists were revealed (SMR file). (Bourke and Clinton 1983-4) Traces of a possible enclosing feature are visible in field to W on Google Earth imagery (image date: 9/2/2010). Compiled by: Paul Walsh and Claire Breen Date of upload: 28 January 2013

Architectural heritage

• Pollaphuca Bridge, bridge, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over the River Liffey, built in c.1830 to designs by Alexander Nimmo. The bridge rises from rocks either at side of the gorge and is constructed in rubble with the large pointed arch encased with a prominent moulded voussoirs. Either side of the arch (to both faces of the bridge) are canted projections which rise through and above the parapets to form crenellated refuges. The outer faces of the refuges are clad with decorative stone panels. The parapets themselves are in rubble with dressed coping, however much of the eastern parapet (including its refuges) is a late 20th-century reconstruction.

• Dry Bridge, bridge, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over a dry channel of the Pollaphuca River, built c.1830. The bridge is rubble-constructed with battered abutments. A tall narrow pointed arch supports the carriageway whilst the road margins are carried on higher level Tudor arched recesses of wider span. The former arch has moulded voussoirs whilst those of the recesses are of rough stone; a shield-shaped panel is set between the arch and the recess. The parapets are also rubble-constructed with two refuges to the west, whilst that to the east has a breakfront directly above the line of the position of the arch.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Britonstown, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Britonstown.

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.

No address of the register names Britonstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Britonstown · Baile Bhriotáin

Area

1,269,012 m² (126.9 ha, 313.58 acres)

Civil parish

Hollywood, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Lower

Electoral division

Burgage, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,243 people lived in 656 households in the Burgage electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 58% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bishopsland (Co. Kildare), Blakestown Lower, Blakestown Upper, Horsepasstown (Co. Kildare), Lugnagroagh, Tulfarris

Placenames

Britonstown 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.