# Castlehoward, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Castlemacadam, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Caisleán Howard. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 849,805 m² (84.98 ha, 209.99 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in it, median 740 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Castlemacadam, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/castlemacadam.md - Barony: Arklow - Electoral division: Cronebane, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 533 people lived in 195 households in the Cronebane electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55330 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250477 - Centre: latitude 52.884698, longitude -6.223289 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Castlehoward, from 740 m² to 740 m²; 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5141877: 740 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5141877.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 26 Nov 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560961: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560961/0 - 17 Apr 2018, Wicklow County Council 18391: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/18391/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Castlehoward. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI035-015: House - 18th/19th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI035-015----. 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®no=16403502 [Accessed 21 August 2013]) 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Castle Howard, country house, 1810–1815, Regional interest, registry number 16403502, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WI®no=16403502. 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, registry number 16403503, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WI®no=16403503. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Castlehoward, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3263, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3263.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/castlehoward.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/castlehoward.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/castlehoward.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Castlehoward with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Connary Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/connary-lower.md - Connary Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/connary-upper.md - Cronebane: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/cronebane.md - Knockanode: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockanode.md - Meetings: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/meetings.md - Tigroney West: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/tigroney-west.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/castlehoward - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/castlehoward