Chapel

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Chapel, from 999 m² to 390,661 m² (39.07 ha, 96.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Chapel 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.

• 16 Oct 2019N/a

  dwelling, garage, entrance, driveway, well, treatment unit, soil polishing filter, two stable buildings for horses, concrete yard, platform for the placing of containers for storing equestrian waste and associate works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 191126

• 20 Dec 2018N/a

  dwelling, garage, entrance, well, treatment unit and polishing filter and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 181440

• 25 Apr 2017N/a

  dwelling, garage, new entrance, well, treatment unit and polishing filter and associate works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17457

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 Chapel.

Recorded monuments

• WI036-017001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a gentle N-facing slope near the centre of a rectangular enclosure (WI036-017003-). Simple, very overgrown, rectangular structure (dims. c. 9m E-W; c. 5m N-S). The walls are roughly coursed (H 0.5-1m) with no indication of a doorway. 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

• WI036-017002 Graveyard
  Description

  Associated with church (WI036-017001-). No graveslabs were noted when inspected by ASI in 1990. The church is in the centre of a rectangular enclosure which may represent the remains of a moated site (WI036-017003-). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 13 September 2013

• WI036-017003 Moated site
  Description

  Situated at a break in a gentle N-facing slope. Rectangular enclosure (dims. 45m E-W; 40m N-S) defined at the N (Wth 8.7m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 2m), E and W (Wth 3-4.5m; H 0.7-1.1m) by an earthen bank; no bank survives on the S side which is bordered by the field boundary. There is a church (WI036-017001-) at the centre of the interior. Shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a rectangular enclosure around the church and recorded as '(Site of) Chapel and Raheen'. No indication of a fosse or entrance. 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: 13 September 2013

• WI036-018 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a gentle NE-facing slope between a stream and the Redcross River. Shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a large enclosure (diam. c. 100m), and indicated by a curved field boundary on the 1907 map, the site appears to have been levelled in the recent past. 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

• WI036-032 Font
  Description

  A cylindrical granite block (58cm x 59cm across; H 30-36cm) with a circular basin (max. diam. at top 40cm; max. diam. at base 38cm; D 14-15cm). The basin has near vertical sides and the rim varies from flat to rounded. There is no drain hole. Reputed to have been found at the ancient church site at Chapel, it is now held privately (see WI036-033---- for present location record). Compiled by: Chris Corlett and Claire Breen Date of upload: 12 June 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Chapel · An Séipéal

Area

752,405 m² (75.24 ha, 185.92 acres)

Civil parish

Redcross, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Ennereilly, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ennereilly electoral division: 465 people in 168 households; 78% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvally Lower, Ballinvally Upper, Ballyrogan Upper, Crone Lower, Crone Upper, Kilpatrick

Placenames

Chapel 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.