Broughills Hill

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Broughills Hill, from 135 m² to 78,480 m² (7.85 ha, 19.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Broughills Hill 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.

• 17 Jun 2026Conditional

  new roof to existing agriculture shed and associate works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660534

• 4 Nov 2024Conditional

  existing front sunroom of 22.5 sq.m. floor area. The floor area of the existing house is 162.00 sq.m. Also within this application retention is sought for a domestic garage of galvanized steel structure of 80 sq.m.

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 24442

• 11 Jul 2017Conditional

  change of use (removal of condition 2 of Planning Reference 09/415) from restricted use as a dwelling to use by all classes of persons

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17830

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 the townland of Broughills Hill.

Recorded monuments

• WI009-030 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated on a steep rocky W-facing slope, overlooking the pass between Johnstown Hill and Slievecorragh with spectacular views into Kildare. A granite stone (H 1.85m; Wth at base 0.95m; Wth at top 0.25m) triangular in cross-section leaning slightly to the E. (Information. A. O'Sullivan) 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

• WI009-033 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated on the W slope of Johnstown Hill, with spectacular views into Kildare. A small squat granite stone (H 0.85m; Wth 1.1m; T 0.15m), oriented NNW-SSE. Possibly a marker stone between the other Broughills Hill standing stone (WI009-030----), the Johnstown barrow (WI009-029----) and the Kiernans Hill standing stone (WI009-034----). 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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Broughills Hill.

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 Broughills Hill, 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Broughills Hill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Broughills Hill · Cnoc an Bhruthmhálaigh

Area

275,243 m² (27.52 ha, 68.01 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

Hollywood Upper, Johnstown, Kiernans Hill, Slievecorragh

Placenames

Broughills Hill 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.