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Decoy

Townland in the civil parish of Dunlavin, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Linn Chluana

Area
84.3 ha
208 acres
Land parcels
4
registered freehold, median 199,577 m² (19.96 ha, 49.32 acres)
Zoning
not in a zoned settlement
Planning
0
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

19 parcels, click one to see it.© Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Decoy, from 1,983 m² to 440,791 m² (44.08 ha, 108.92 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 Decoy 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

No planning application touches the townland of Decoy in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Decoy.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Decoy.

Architectural heritage

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

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

The townland

Name
Decoy · An Linn Chluana
Area
843,271 m² (84.33 ha, 208.38 acres)
Civil parish
Dunlavin, and its townlands
Barony
Talbotstown Lower
Electoral division
Dunlavin, the unit of the census
Census 2022
Dunlavin electoral division: 1,580 people in 526 households; 66% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Cowpasture, Loughmogue Lower, Merginstown Glen, Raheen, Toberbeg
Placenames
Decoy 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.