Curraghlawn
Townland in the civil parish of Kilpipe, barony of Ballinacor South, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Currach Leathan
- Area
- 142.1 ha
- 351 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 4,413 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curraghlawn, from 364 m² to 398,680 m² (39.87 ha, 98.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Curraghlawn 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
24 Jun 2024Conditional
a new dwelling house, provision of a new entrance, provision of a driveway, provision of an effluent treatment system to comply with current EPA requirements, provision of a well and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 24281
31 May 2021Conditional
for a new dwelling with attached garage, new entrance, wastewater treatment unit and soil polishing filter, new well and associate works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21645
14 Sept 2020Conditional
for a new side extension to side of existing dwelling, removal of existing septic tank, install a new wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter and associate works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20901
19 Jan 2017Conditional
permission to construct a new vehicle entrance to dwelling and permission to remove a substandard entrance and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 1746
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Curraghlawn.
Recorded monuments
- WI039-034 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a gentle SE-facing slope. About half of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 32m) truncated at the NW by a public road. The site is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 1.7m; H 1m) with internal drystone facing of a similar character to the surrounding field boundaries. There is an external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.1-0.2m) with a gap (Wth 2m) at the SE. Within the enclosure are two rectangular hollows, at the SE (L 15m; Wth 5m; max. D 2m) and NE (L 5m; Wth 3m; D 1m). 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
- Kilpipe Church, church/chapel, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey Church of Ireland church, built 1817 around the ruins of an earlier church. The building is finished in render. To the east side is a gabled porch with a bellcote while to the west there is a gabled chancel. There are two later lean-to additions. The timber sheeted door is set within a segmental-arched opening. Windows are semi-circular arch-headed with Gothic style "Y" tracery. The pitched roof is finished with natural slate and cast-iron rainwater goods. The building is set within a small graveyard.
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
- About 1 in 10 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Curraghlawn.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Curraghlawn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Curraghlawn · An Currach Leathan
- Area
- 1,421,363 m² (142.14 ha, 351.23 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilpipe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor South
- Electoral division
- Kilpipe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilpipe electoral division: 452 people in 163 households; 85% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballagh, Carrig (Co. Wexford), Craan (Co. Wexford), Toberlownagh, Toberpatrick
- Placenames
- Curraghlawn 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.