# Ecawn, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Arklow, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 520,213 m² (52.02 ha, 128.55 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,029 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Arklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/arklow.md - Barony: Arklow - Electoral division: Arklow Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,415 people lived in 498 households in the Arklow Rural electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55160 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250675 - Centre: latitude 52.788233, longitude -6.208236 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ecawn, from 238 m² to 217,407 m² (21.74 ha, 53.72 acres); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4540691: 217,407 m² (21.74 ha, 53.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4540691.md - Parcel 5420117: 197,436 m² (19.74 ha, 48.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5420117.md - Parcel 5420135: 97,088 m² (9.71 ha, 23.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5420135.md - Parcel 1296668: 7,300 m² (0.73 ha, 1.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1296668.md - Parcel 4928895: 757 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4928895.md - Parcel 4540679: 628 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4540679.md - Parcel 4928897: 275 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4928897.md - Parcel 4928876: 238 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4928876.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ecawn 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) 1 application, newest first. - 8 May 2018, Wicklow County Council 18491: Conditional. Permission. construct milking parlour and collecting yard with crush and slatted tank, extension to existing slatted shed to integration slatted tanks, cubicle, flow channels and feeding areas and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/18491/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Ecawn. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI045-002: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI045-002----. Situated on a gentle N/NE-facing slope on the edge of a valley. A partly levelled oval enclosure (dims. 41m NW-SE; 55m SW-NE), defined by a low wide bank (Wth 4-5m; H 0.3m). There is a wide shallow fosse (Wth 4m) NW-E-SW while at W the bank is built on the edge of a steep stream valley. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ecawn. ## 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 Ecawn, about 1 in 20 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 low. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3296, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3296.zip (ZIP). - 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/ecawn.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ecawn.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ecawn.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ecawn 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) - Ballyduff South: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyduff-south.md - Ballygriffin: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballygriffin.md - Coolastingan: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/coolastingan.md - Curranstown Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/curranstown-upper.md - Knockanree: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockanree.md - Thomastown: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/thomastown.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. --- 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/ecawn - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/ecawn