Castlehoward

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Castlehoward, from 740 m² to 740 m². The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Castlehoward 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.

• 26 Nov 2025Conditional

  renovate and reinstate existing abandoned residential dwelling to include reinstatement of roof structure. Permission is sought to make alterations and to erect an extension to existing abandoned dwelling. Permission is sought to install wastewater treatment facilities to current EPA standard and sink a new bored well water supply and and all associated site and ancillary works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560961

• 17 Apr 2018Conditional

  single storey dwelling (175.0 sqm), detached garage (40 sqm), vehicular access to site, septic tank and percolation area, all above with associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18391

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 Castlehoward.

Recorded monuments

• WI035-015 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  Recorded by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as follows: 'Detached multiple-bay part one part two part three and part four-storey country house, built 1811 around the fabric of an earlier house. The house is designed part in Romantic Castle style and part in Abbey style. The castle section is articulated with three-stage towers and battlemented parapets while the abbey section is two storey with gothic tracery windows and a battlemented parapet. To the south-east side there is a large conservatory. The building is finished in render with stone dressings. The timber 'studded' and sheeted door has matching sheeting to the blind fanlight and is set within an ogee-shaped opening; this has a reeded stone surround. Window openings are generally flat-headed with gothic tracery and drip mouldings. The house was built in 1811 for LT-Col Robert Howard to designs by Sir Richard Morrison. It is set on a hilltop overlooking the Meeting of the Waters within a large wooded demesne with manicured gardens close to the house. There is a small lake and a boathouse and a tall folly set beside a walled garden.' (See http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WI&regno=16403502 [Accessed 21 August 2013])

Architectural heritage

• Castle Howard, country house, 1810–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay part one part two part three and part four-storey country house, built 1811 around the fabric of an earlier house. The country house is designed part in Romantic Castle style and part in Abbey style. The castle section is articulated with three-stage towers and battlemented parapets while the abbey section is two storey with gothic tracery windows and a battlemented parapet. To the south-east side there is a large conservatory. The building is finished in render with stone dressings. The timber ‘studded’ and sheeted door has matching sheeting to the blind fanlight and is set within an ogee-shaped opening; this has a reeded stone surround. Window openings are generally flat-headed with gothic tracery and drip mouldings. The country house was built in 1811 for LT-Col Robert Howard to designs by Sir Richard Morrison. It is set on a hilltop overlooking the Meeting of the Waters within a large wooded demesne with manicured gardens close to the house. There is a small lake and a boathouse and a tall folly set beside a walled garden.

• Castle Howard, gate lodge, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay one and a half-storey former gate lodge to Castlehoward, built c.1850. The gate lodge is finished in render with decorative mouldings. To the east side is a flat-roofed c.1990 addition while to the west there is an early 20th century lean-to addition. The timber sheeted front door has a flat-headed opening and a gabled bracketed porch canopy over. The window openings are also flat-headed with three over six timber sash frames; there are square drip mouldings. Two gabled dormer windows each have three over three timber sash frames and decorative bargeboards. The pitched roof has a natural slate covering and cast-iron rainwater goods; the eaves are slightly overhanging and the clay ridge tiles have serrated decoration. The chimneystack has a corbelled decorative cap and clay pots. The gate lodge is set to the inside of a large wrought-iron gate with square pillars with castellated caps.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3263 (ZIP).

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.

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

Name

Castlehoward · Caisleán Howard

Area

849,805 m² (84.98 ha, 209.99 acres)

Civil parish

Castlemacadam, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Cronebane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cronebane electoral division: 533 people in 195 households; 88% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Connary Lower, Connary Upper, Cronebane, Knockanode, Meetings, Tigroney West

Placenames

Castlehoward 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.