Coan
Coan is a townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Cuan.
- Area
- 153.8 ha
- 380 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 10,570 m² (1.06 ha, 2.61 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coan, from 135 m² to 310,131 m² (31.01 ha, 76.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Coan 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
5 Sept 2023N/a
the construction of a dwelling and garage with effluent treatment system, together with associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360255
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: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
Recorded monuments
- WI022-030 Standing stone
Description
Situated on level ground overlooking the S slope of the Little Slaney valley. Granite pillar (H 1.45m; Wth 0.38m; T 0.3m) leaning heavily to one side. A second standing stone (WI022-032----) stands c. 130m to the S. The above description is a revision of that published in the 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). Date of upload/revision: 26-04-2010. G. Conroy.
- WI022-032 Standing stone
Description
On a gentle W-facing slope of average grazing land with occasional granite outcrops on the lower slopes of Camarahill and overlooking the Little Slaney River which flows nearby to the E. Good views of Keadeen to the SW, as well as Brusselstown Ring to the W, and also of the Sugarloaf and Lobawn to the N. A low, granite slab tapering towards the top (H 1.02m; Wth at base 0.92m; T 0.2m) orientated N-S. The E face is flat while the W face is more rounded. A second standing stone (WI022-030----) stands c. 130m to the N. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Mary Tunney Date of upload: 17 December 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coan.
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 Coan, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Coan.
- 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 Coan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Coan · Cuan
- Area
- 1,538,318 m² (153.83 ha, 380.13 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
- Ballineddan Lower, Ballineddan Upper, Camara, Camarahill North, Camarahill South, Clonshannon, Colliga
- Placenames
- Coan 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.