Englishtown

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Englishtown, from 114 m² to 297,013 m² (29.7 ha, 73.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Englishtown 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.

• 2 Oct 2024Conditional

  garage as built on site, conversion of garage to a granny flat and associate works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2460603

• 21 Aug 2024Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto public road and associate works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460506

• 13 Nov 2020Refused

  land improvement works consisting of the importation and depositing of inert subsoil / topsoil for land profiling and contouring of agricultural land and also temporary access roadway and a temporary compound area with associated temporary structures. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with the application

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 201145

• 8 Oct 2020N/a

  land improvement works consisting of the importation and depositing of inert subsoil / topsoil for land profiling and contouring of agricultural land and also temporary access roadway and associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20993

• 16 Apr 2019N/a

  long standing single storey extension (29.3 sqm GFA) to the side and rear of an existing cottage, including a kitchen and living room area, resulting in alterations to the front and rear elevations

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 19404

• 25 Oct 2018Conditional

  dwelling with detached garage, waste water treatment unit and percolation area, private well, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 181197

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

Designated sites

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

Recorded monuments

• WI027-049 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Situated on a gentle NW-facing slope and planted with conifers. Circular area (diam. 34m) defined by a stone bank (Wth 1.2-2m; H 0.6-1.2m) with inner drystone facing at the SW. No indication of an entrance, external fosse or internal features. 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

• WI027-096 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of bivallate circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 30m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Simon Dowling Date of upload: 26 November 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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_2809 (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 Englishtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Englishtown · An Baile Gallda

Area

1,141,116 m² (114.11 ha, 281.98 acres)

Civil parish

Kilranelagh, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Talbotstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Talbotstown electoral division: 456 people in 154 households; 85% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barraderry North, Boleylug, Fortgranite, Killalish Lower, Kilmurry, Kilmurry Lower, Talbotstown Lower, Woodfieldglen

Placenames

Englishtown 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.