# Downings, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilranelagh, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Dún Ing.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 518,067 m² (51.81 ha, 128.02 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 15,490 m² (1.55 ha, 3.83 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilranelagh, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/kilranelagh.md
- Barony: Talbotstown Upper
- Electoral division: Eadestown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 215 people lived in 73 households in the Eadestown electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54738
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250645
- Centre: latitude 52.948476, longitude -6.649859 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Downings, from 26 m² to 201,136 m² (20.11 ha, 49.7 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 5430629: 201,136 m² (20.11 ha, 49.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5430629.md
- Parcel 5512676: 86,189 m² (8.62 ha, 21.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5512676.md
- Parcel 4180014: 76,853 m² (7.69 ha, 18.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4180014.md
- Parcel 4180012: 71,916 m² (7.19 ha, 17.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4180012.md
- Parcel 1278643: 54,196 m² (5.42 ha, 13.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278643.md
- Parcel 1268134: 15,490 m² (1.55 ha, 3.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268134.md
- Parcel 1249617: 3,596 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1249617.md
- Parcel 1294588: 2,083 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1294588.md
- Parcel 1267045: 609 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1267045.md
- Parcel 1271522: 97 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271522.md
- Parcel 5512685: 26 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5512685.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Downings in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

2 applications, newest first.

- 27 Jan 2021, Wicklow County Council 2160: Refused. Permission. 10 year permission for Construction of up to 5 No. wind turbines with a maximum overall blade top height of 165m, with a transformer at each turbine and associated hard stand area; 1No. 38kV electrical substation and all associated infrastructure and works; 20kV underground cables facilitating the connection of turbines to 38kV electrical substation and all associated infrastructure and works; Circa 6.5km of 38kV underground cabling and all associated works along public roads to facilitate the connection of the proposed 38kV wind farm electrical substation to the existing Stratford 38/110kV substation referred to as 'the grid route', Provision of a heritage trail circa 1km in length to include associated information signage (located at the key heritage assets) and parking area; Replacement of existing grass verge with a new 1 metre wide footway at each bridge crossing along the 'grid route'; New site tracks, upgraded site tracks and all associated works; 1 No. 30m permanent meteorological mast and all associated infrastructure and works; A temporary site compound and all associated works; and All associated and ancillary site development works The application site includes Protected Structures. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development and will be submitted with the application.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2160/0
- 19 Jan 2021, Wicklow County Council 2128: N/a. Permission. 10 year permission for Construction of up to 5 No. wind turbines with a maximum overall blade top height of 165m, with a transformer at each turbine and associated hard stand area; 1No. 38kV electrical substation and all associated infrastructure and works; 20kV underground cables facilitating the connection of turbines to 38kV electrical substation and all associated infrastructure and works; Circa 6.5km of 38kV underground cabling and all associated works along public roads to facilitate the connection of the proposed 38kV wind farm electrical substation to the existing Stratford 38/110kV substation referred to as 'the grid route', Provision of a heritage trail circa 1km in length to include associated information signage (located at the key heritage assets) and parking area; Replacement of existing grass verge with a new 1 metre wide footway at each bridge crossing along the 'grid route'; New site tracks, upgraded site tracks and all associated works; 1 No. 30m permanent meteorological mast and all associated infrastructure and works; A temporary site compound and all associated works; and All associated and ancillary site development works. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development and will be submitted with the application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2128/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Downings.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Downings.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Downings, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 Downings.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/downings.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/downings.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/downings.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Downings with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballinroan Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballinroan-lower.md
- Ballinroan Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballinroan-upper.md
- Boley: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/boley-250392.md
- Boleylug: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/boleylug.md
- Coolinarrig Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/coolinarrig-lower.md
- Kilranelagh: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/kilranelagh.md
- Spinans Middle: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/spinans-middle.md
- Spinans West: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/spinans-west.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/downings
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/downings