Fiddancoyle
Townland in the civil parish of Kiltegan, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Feadán Coill
- Area
- 89.9 ha
- 222 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 13,135 m² (1.31 ha, 3.25 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fiddancoyle, from 163 m² to 195,047 m² (19.5 ha, 48.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Fiddancoyle 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
29 Sept 2025Conditional
new bungalow dwelling, bored well, septic tank and percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works..
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560770
2 May 2023Conditional
a split level single storey house, a wastewater treatment system and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 23423
28 Aug 2020Conditional
10 no. year permission is sought for the continued use of the existing sand and gravel pit (permitted under Wicklow County Council Reg. Ref. 04/1447; An Bord Pleanála Ref. PL27.211640 and further extended under Wicklow County Council Reg. Ref. 14/2005) which has a permitted extractive area of c. 8.93 hectares (c. 4.9 hectares of which has not been developed to date) and the continued provision of washing/rinsing plant, dry screener, settlement lagoons, bunded fuel storage tank, wheel wash, areas of stockpiling and access road, and all other site development works, including landscaping and restoration works of the final pit void (extractive area). Extraction in the new area of c. 4.9 hectares is sought to a maximum depth of 166m OD and will be extracted at a rate of up to 100,000 tonnes per annum. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20847
18 Aug 2020N/a
10 no. year permission is sought for the continued use of the existing sand and gravel pit (permitted under Wicklow County Council Reg. Ref. 04/1147; An Bord Pleanála Ref. PL27.211640 and further extended under Wicklow County Council Reg. Ref. 14/2005) which has a permitted extractive area of c. 8.93 hectares (c. 4.9 hectares of which has not been developed to date) and the continued provision of washing/rinsing plant, dry screener, settlement lagoons, bunded fuel storage tank, wheel wash, areas of stockpiling and access road, and all other site development works, including landscaping and restoration works of the final pit void (extractive area). Extraction in the new area of c. 4.9 hectares is sought to a maximum depth of 166m OD and will be extracted at a rate of up to 100,000 tonnes per annum. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20796
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 Fiddancoyle.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Fiddancoyle.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fiddancoyle.
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 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 Fiddancoyle.
- 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 Fiddancoyle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Fiddancoyle · Feadán Coill
- Area
- 898,837 m² (89.88 ha, 222.11 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltegan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Upper
- Electoral division
- Humewood, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Humewood electoral division: 351 people in 134 households; 82% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Crossnacole, Danesfort Lower, Danesfort Upper, Deerpark, Fiddan, Highpark Lower
- Placenames
- Fiddancoyle 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.