Cannow
Cannow is a townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Ceann Abha.
- Area
- 129 ha
- 319 acres
- Land parcels
- 0
- registered freehold
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
No registered freehold parcel touches this townland in the file of Tailte Éireann.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cannow 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
No planning application touches the townland of Cannow in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Wicklow Mountains SAC 002122
- Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
- Special Protection Area: Wicklow Mountains SPA 004040
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cannow.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cannow.
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 Cannow, 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 Cannow.
- 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 Cannow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Cannow · Ceann Abha
- Area
- 1,290,155 m² (129.02 ha, 318.8 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Upper
- Electoral division
- Imael North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 257 people lived in 93 households in the Imael North electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyvoghan, Camara, Camarahill North, Cannow Mountain, Clornagh, Leitrim, Leoh, Lugnaquillia
- Placenames
- Cannow 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.