Cookstown

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cookstown, from 7 m² to 42,997 m² (4.3 ha, 10.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Bray Municipal District Local Area Plan 2018, Wicklow · 26 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential - R10 (New/proposed residential)
  Bray Municipal District Local Area Plan 2018, Wicklow · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential - R20 (New/proposed residential)
  Bray Municipal District Local Area Plan 2018, Wicklow · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community & Education (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Bray Municipal District Local Area Plan 2018, Wicklow · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C5Tourism (Tourism and related)
  Bray Municipal District Local Area Plan 2018, Wicklow · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Passive Open Space (Open space, park)
  Bray Municipal District Local Area Plan 2018, Wicklow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential - R-Special (New/proposed residential)
  Bray Municipal District Local Area Plan 2018, Wicklow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Bray Municipal District Local Area Plan 2018, Wicklow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Bray Municipal District Local Area Plan 2018, Wicklow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N6Public Utility (Other networks and basic infrastructure/utilities uses)
  Bray Municipal District Local Area Plan 2018, Wicklow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 3 Jul 2026Conditional

  permanent retention of the minor variations to the grant of planning permission issued by An Bord Pleanala (now An Coimisiun Pleanala) reference PL.27.237724, dated 18th February 2011 (as amended by the revised public notices received by the Planning Authority on the 06th May 2010), the variations include an increase of 29.20sq.m in the built blueprint of the house and the relocation of the entrance , necessitated by site restraints, and resultant changes to the internal layout

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 26132

• 8 Oct 2025Conditional

  Change of house type at Nos. 7-10 The Orchid, Silvervale (sites nos. 70-73 as approved under Register Reference No. 21/1533) from 4 No. Type H houses (2 Storey 2 Bed Semi-detached) to 3 No. Type B3 and 1 No. Type B3S (2 Storey 3 Bed Semi-detached) houses

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560803

• 2 Oct 2025N/a

  qChange of house type at Nos. 7-10 The Orchid, Silvervale (sites nos. 71-73 as approved under Register Reference No. 21/1533) from 4 No. Type H houses (2 Storey 2 Bed Semi-detached) to 3 No. Type B3 and 1 No. Type B3S (2 Storey 3 Bed Semi-detached) houses

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560784

• 8 Sept 2025Conditional

  full planning permission for an extensions and alterations to an existing 157.5m2 dwelling. The works will include: 1. a proposed new 48m2 ground floor extension to the existing dwelling to include new master suite. 2. a proposed new 18m2 ground floor extension to the side of existing dwelling to include new storage areas. 3. alterations to existing plans and elevations to accommodate new proposals to existing dwelling layout. 3. all associated siteworks and landscaping

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560713

• 20 Jun 2025Conditional

  conversion of the existing detached garage structure into habitable accommodation with new link (all single storey) to existing 2 storey detached dwelling, replacement of existing garage door with 2 No. windows to the front and all associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560462

• 19 Jun 2025N/a

  conversion of the existing detached garage structure into habitable accommodation with new link (all single storey) to existing 2 storey detached dwelling, replacement of existing garage door with 2 No. windows to the front and all associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560455

• 3 Jun 2025Unconditional

  Section 42 Extension of Appropriate Period - 27 no detached dwellings (1 no single storey 2 bed houses (c102 sqm), 3 no single storey 3 bed houses (118 sqm), 7 no two storey 3 bed houses (c144-175 sqm) 11 no two storey 4 bed houses (c214-267 sqm) and 5 no 2 storey 5 bed houses (c321sqm) all with on curtilage car parking spaces, a public park (c10,351 sqm) and all ancillary and associated site development, landscaping, drainage and boundary works, including new vehicular access from regional road R760

  Extension of duration · Wicklow County Council, 25148

• 27 Aug 2024Refused

  the construction of a single-storey detached Worship Hall accommodating a multi-functional worship space, meeting room, kitchen, toilets and storage and will be of +7m in height to ridge level and 155m2 in area adjacent to the existing church, with external timber cladding and pitched copper roofing, a detached single-storey timber-clad plant room of 8.3m2 to the north side of the existing church, universally accessible car parking spaces, bicycle parking, associated landscaping including the removal of an existing tree, and sundry other minor works. St. Patrick’s Church, Cookstown Road, Enniskerry is a protected structure (RPS Ref. No. 03-06)

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460520

• 22 Aug 2024N/a

  Planning permission for the construction of a single-storey detached Worship Hall accommodating a multi-functional worship space, meeting room, kitchen, toilets and storage area adjacent to the existing church, with external timber cladding and pitched copper roofing, a detached single-storey timber-clad plant room of 8.3m2 to the north side of the existing church, universally accessible car parking spaces, bicycle parking, associated landscaping including the removal of an existing tree, and sundry other minor works at St. Patrick’s Church, Cookstown Road, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow (a protected structure (RPS Ref. No. 03-06).

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460511

• 2 Jul 2024Conditional

  the construction of 2no. dwellings to the rear of existing dwelling (Ferndale B&B) similar to that as previously granted under planning Ref. 18/783. The proposed dwellings to be accessed through existing laneway, together with associated site works including reconfiguration of existing parking spaces to the rear of Ferndale B&B (accessed through aforementioned laneway) similar to that as previously granted under planning Ref. 18/783

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 24299

• 27 Jun 2024N/a

  the construction of 2no. dwellings to the rear of existing dwelling (Ferndale B&B) similar to that as previously granted under plan ref. 18/783. The proposed dwellings to be accessed through existing laneway, together with associated site works including reconfiguration of existing parking spaces to the rear of Ferndale B&B (accessed through aforementioned laneway) similar to that as previously granted under plan ref. 18/783

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 24288

• 11 Apr 2024Conditional

  the addition of 2 no. velux roof lights and 2 no. high level gable window openings into the attic storage space of existing single story house on site

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460208

• 10 Apr 2024Unconditional

  Section 42(1) on granted PRR 18/1444 (split level stepped three storey dwelling, formation of a new entrance from the existing access road, connections to existing foul and surface water services and all required ancillary site works including perimeter boundaries, planting and landscaping)

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 24170

• 5 Apr 2024Conditional

  the construction of a new single storey three - bedroom dwelling house (123sqm) with wastewater treatment system; hard and soft landscaping; boundary treatments and all associated site development works above and below ground. The proposed development will also include: new access to the shared driveway leading onto the Cookstown Road(L1020) and upgrading/resurfacing of the shared driveway

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 24162

• 4 Oct 2023N/a

  new single storey three-bedroom dwelling house (123 sqm) with wastewater treatment system, hard and soft landscaping, boundary treatments & all associated site development works above and below ground

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23750

• 13 Sept 2023Conditional

  revised boundaries to that granted under planning reference 22/971 and associate works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360277

• 29 Jun 2023Conditional

  the addition of 2 no. velux roof lights and 1 no. high level gable window opening into the attic storage space of existing single story house on site

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360128

• 6 Apr 2023Refused

  Section 254 for free standing advertisement structure

  N/a · Wicklow County Council, 23346

• 6 Apr 2023Refused

  S254 - an advertisement structure - finger post

  N/a · Wicklow County Council, 23364

• 6 Apr 2023Refused

  S254 - advertising structure - free standing

  N/a · Wicklow County Council, 23368

• 3 Mar 2023N/a

  for the construction of a new dwelling, connected to mains water, effluent disposal system to current EPA standards, new entrance onto public road and associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 23210

• 7 Sept 2022Conditional

  2 no. single storey dwellings, served by separate treatment plants, provision of new vehicular entrance accessed off the R117 with associated site works

  Permission consequent · Wicklow County Council, 22971

• 22 Aug 2022N/a

  2no. single storey dwelling, served by separate treatment plants, provision of new vehicular entrance accessed off the R117 with associated site works

  Permission consequent · Wicklow County Council, 22914

• 5 Aug 2022Conditional

  works to existing bungalow to include ground floor extension to rear, first floor dormer extension, new on-site waste water treatment system, new garage & shed building, widening of the existing vehicular entrance with new piers & bellmouth, landscaping and associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22873

• 7 Jul 2022Conditional

  demolition of existing two storey house (excluding freestanding workshop) and the erection of two new houses (part two storey/part single storey) including wastewater systems and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22761

The 25 most recent of 64 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dargle River Valley 001754

Recorded monuments

• WI007-025 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on level ground overlooking the steep side of the Cookstown River valley immediately to the N. Circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m), visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs (GSIAP, O 173-4). Not visible at ground level. 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

Architectural heritage

• Powerscourt School, school, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey picturesque schoolhouse, built in 1818, with large projecting gabled bay to front with attic, painted roughcast façade and slated pitched roof with overhang. To the west side is a lean-to projection of c.1990. The windows are flat-headed with timber casement frames and lattice panes with most of the windows to front having small timber hipped roof hoods on curved brackets. Near the apex of the gable of the projecting bay is a small shield-shaped date panel. The roof overhang is supported on paired timber brackets, decorative bargeboards, rendered chimneystack.

• House, 1815–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey former house, built c.1820 and extended to north side c.1990 now in use as a shop, doctor’s surgery and pharmacy. The façade is rendered and painted, the pitched roof covered in artificial slate with flat-headed windows with timber sash frames and painted stone sills. To front are two flat-roofed single-storey projections with c.1990s timber shopfronts. Between these is the former house doorway which now leads to the surgery, with panelled timber door, elliptical fanlight with ‘spoke’ tracery and plain jambs. To rear is a large two-storey return with some windows filled with casement frames. Extruded aluminum rainwater goods.

• Ferndale, house, 1845–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached three-bay two-storey picturesque house, built c.1850. The façade is rendered and painted. The overhanging hipped roof is slated and supported on paired timber brackets with decorative bargeboards and finials to two small gables to front. The flat-headed windows are filled with timber bipartite and tripartite sash frames and painted stone sills. The entrance consists of a single-storey gabled porch projection with panelled timber door, multiple-pane sidelights and Tudor arch fanlight with decorative tracery; the porch roof is also slated and has decorative bargeboards and finial. Small moulded shield panes to the two front gables. Rendered chimneystacks with that shared with neighbouring house larger and with diagonally arranged stacks in Tudoresque fashion. Extruded aluminium rainwater goods. Rendered and painted wall with railings to front garden.

• Lislea House, house, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached three-bay two-storey picturesque house, built c.1860. The façade is rendered and painted, the overhanging hipped roof is slated and supported on paired timber brackets, with decorative bargeboards and finials to two small gables to front. The flat-headed windows are filled with timber bipartite and tripartite sash frames and painted stone sills. The entrance consists of a single-storey gabled open porch within which is panelled timber door with Tudor arch fanlight with decorative tracery; the porch roof is also slated and has decorative bargeboards and finial. Single storey hipped roof extension to west elevation. Small moulded shield panes to the two front gables. Rendered chimneystacks with diagonally arranged stacks in Tudoresque fashion. uPVC rainwater goods. Rendered and painted wall with railings to front garden.

• Cúram, house, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two storey house, built c.1860 with rendered façade, overhanging gabled roof and full-height gabled bay and single-storey porch to front. The façade is painted and has rusticated quoins, moulded shield panels to gables and dripstone over one window. The roof is covered in asbestos tiles and has decorative bargeboards. The windows are flat-headed and have uPVC frames and painted stone sills. The gabled porch has decorative bargeboards and a Tudor arched opening without door. Within the porch is the panelled timber house door. Rendered chimneystacks; uPVC rainwater goods. Single-storey gabled garage to north side. Low rendered garden wall with cast-iron railings and decorative octagonal-plan reeded gate piers.

• Rosemount House, house, 1825–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey Regency style house, built c.1830, with rendered and roughcast façade, hipped roof and portico. The façade is rendered and painted to front with unpainted roughcast to other elevations; rusticated quoins to front also. The roof is slated with its overhang supported on paired timber brackets. The windows are flat-headed and have three over three and six over six paned timber sash frames and painted stone sills, with reeded pilaster-like surrounds and entablatures to ground floor windows to front and similar surrounds (without entablatures) to first floor windows to front. The entrance consists of a flat roofed portico with Tuscan columns and pilasters, within which is the timber door with decorative octagonal panels, panelled jambs with scroll brackets and a semi-circular fanlight with decorative petal tracery. Brick chimneystacks; cast-iron rainwater goods. Two-storey hipped roof, roughcast outbuilding to rear partly converted to garage. Low granite garden wall to front with decorative granite piers and cast-iron railings.

• Enniskerry Lodge, house, 1815–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two storey square plan Regency style house of c.1820 with rendered façade and overhanging hipped roof. The painted render is of Tyrolean variety whilst the roof is slated with rendered chimneystacks; the roof overhang is supported on paired timber brackets. To the south there is a full-height curved projecting bay. The windows are flat-headed and have timber three over three and six over six Georgian-paned sash frames and painted stone sills. The ground floor windows are relatively tall. The centrally located entrance consists of a panelled timber door flanked by reeded three-quarter Tuscan columns with elliptical fanlight over. uPVC rainwater goods. Curved gate screen to roadside with rock-faced granite piers, roughcast rendered quadrant walls and cast-iron gates.

• Saint Patrick's Church (Powerscourt), church/chapel, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted vaguely ‘Early English’ style church of 1859 by John Norton, with three-stage corner tower with broach spire to north-east, five-bay nave, transept and porch to south and curved chancel to east. The façade is in random granite rubble with dressed sandstone to openings, dressed granite quoins and low bevelled base course. The pitched roof is slated with alternate bands of Bangor blue and Westmoreland slate to the nave, whilst the spire is clad in copper. The pointed arch windows have stone tracery generally forming paired lancets with roundels and are mainly filled with leaded lattice panes. Pointed arch doorways with timber double doors set in reducing reveals with drip stones over. Decorative outer half door to porch. Clasping buttresses, slit windows and larger louvered pointed arch belfry level windows to tower. Granite parapets with stone and cast-iron cross finials. Cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers. Graveyard to south side. Rubble granite boundary wall with cast-iron railings.

• The Rectory, gate lodge, 1825–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1830 but remodelled c.1880 and now the rectory for neighbouring St Patrick’s Church of Ireland church. Roughly U-shaped in plan, the façade is in unpainted roughcast with the hipped roof covered in asbestos tiles. Gabled porch to front, has panelled timber door and rectangular fanlight set in partly bevelled stone reveal. The porch is flanked by canted hipped roof bays of differing size, each with flat-headed windows with timber sash frames and stone sills. The return has been extended.

• Silver Vale House, house, 1770–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay two-storey house, built c.1780 originally rectangular in plan but with later informal additions to either end forming the present roughly L-shaped building. The façade is rendered and largely painted, with six over six Georgian-paned sash frames to most of the flat-headed windows; stone sills. The pitched roof is slated and the chimneys rendered. The original central section of the house is lower and has a large glazed gabled porch of c.1950 over the original entrance. The wing to the west, which is considerably taller and has a rendered parapet to front, appears to have been built in two stages, possibly c.1840-1850, whilst that the east side, added at the same date or later, is gable-fronted. Cast-iron and uPVC rainwater goods.

• Summerhill House, house, 1870–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two storey former house, built c.1875, but possibly incorporating the fabric of an earlier building. The property was converted to a hotel and greatly extended in the later 20th century. The façade of the original section is rendered and painted, whilst the hipped roof is slated and has an overhang supported on curved timber brackets. The flat-headed windows have timber sash frames and stone sills and the entrance is set within a centrally positioned mainly glazed gabled porch. To the east side of the south-facing front elevation is a full-height canted bay while to the west is a shallow single-storey square bay with hipped roof. The original two-storey rear return has been lengthened and merges with a large flat-roofed extension and a large single storey extension has been added to the east side. Rendered chimneystack; cast-iron and uPVC rainwater goods.

• The Old Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay part two part three-storey fanciful Gothic Revival rectory of c.1859 of informal composition with various gabled projections, possibly altered c.1915 when the present render and window frames may have been added. The façade is in painted render but may originally have been in stone. The roof is a complex mixture of pitched and hipped sections and is slated with red clay ridge tiles, small finials, moulded eaves courses and brackets to the overhang at the verges. The windows are largely flat-headed though there is a small number of pointed arch examples with most set in bevelled reveals without sills. The window frames are generally timber sash with bottom sashes plain and panes to top sashes arranged in a ‘block work’ manner. The pointed arch entrance is set within a two-storey gabled bay with diagonal buttresses and consists of a timber door with moulded reveal and drip stone. Tall rendered chimneystacks have moulded coping and matching octagonal pots. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

• Knockmore, house, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey house, built 1859. The building is finished in render with moulded dressings. To the south there are a series of later additions. The part glazed panelled door has a moulded surround and an advancing pedimented portico supported on Doric square and round columns. Windows are flat-headed with timber casement frames. The pitched roof is finished in natural slate with bracketed eaves and cast-iron rainwater goods. Chimneystacks are rendered with plain caps and clay pots. The house is set on a rise at the end of a long driveway.

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 high, moderately high, moderately high (inferred), moderately low, moderately low (inferred), 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_3317 (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 Cookstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Cookstown · Baile an Chócaigh

Area

1,186,049 m² (118.6 ha, 293.08 acres)

Civil parish

Powerscourt, and its townlands

Barony

Rathdown

Electoral division

Enniskerry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Enniskerry electoral division: 3,173 people in 970 households; 80% of households own their home; 18% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Enniskerry, Fassaroe, Kilgarran, Knocksink, Monastery, Newtown, Powerscourt Demesne, Tinnehinch

Placenames

Cookstown 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.