# Friarhill, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tober, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Cnoc na mBráithre. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 929,050 m² (92.91 ha, 229.57 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 37,062 m² (3.71 ha, 9.16 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Tober, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/tober.md - Barony: Talbotstown Lower - Electoral division: Tober, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 495 people lived in 159 households in the Tober electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54991 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250695 - Centre: latitude 53.061985, longitude -6.668227 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Friarhill, from 2,468 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres) to 181,305 m² (18.13 ha, 44.8 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1261194: 181,305 m² (18.13 ha, 44.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1261194.md - Parcel 1294508: 132,274 m² (13.23 ha, 32.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1294508.md - Parcel 1275597: 121,140 m² (12.11 ha, 29.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1275597.md - Parcel 1299979: 111,871 m² (11.19 ha, 27.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1299979.md - Parcel 1291994: 95,814 m² (9.58 ha, 23.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1291994.md - Parcel 1271715: 46,964 m² (4.7 ha, 11.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271715.md - Parcel 1260132: 40,449 m² (4.04 ha, 10 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1260132.md - Parcel 1278975: 37,364 m² (3.74 ha, 9.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278975.md - Parcel 1268509: 37,258 m² (3.73 ha, 9.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268509.md - Parcel 1284886: 36,866 m² (3.69 ha, 9.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1284886.md - Parcel 5662455: 26,261 m² (2.63 ha, 6.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5662455.md - Parcel 1296170: 19,927 m² (1.99 ha, 4.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1296170.md - Parcel 1265635: 19,481 m² (1.95 ha, 4.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1265635.md - Parcel 1268229: 6,364 m² (0.64 ha, 1.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268229.md - Parcel 1284793: 6,148 m² (0.61 ha, 1.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1284793.md - Parcel 5670234: 4,074 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5670234.md - Parcel 1278452: 3,353 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278452.md - Parcel 1297537: 2,468 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1297537.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Friarhill 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 13 Apr 2021, Wicklow County Council 21399: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. dormer type bungalow , domestic garage, effluent treatment system and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/21399/0 - 8 Mar 2021, Wicklow County Council 21236: Conditional. Permission. agricultural shed and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/21236/0 - 12 Oct 2020, Wicklow County Council 201007: N/a. Permission. agricultural shed and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/201007/0 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 Friarhill. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI015-021: Burial mound, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI015-021----. Situated at a break in a marked S-facing slope overlooking the confluence of two small valleys. A rectangular cist containing cremated bone was found in the course of quarrying for sand in a tumulus (diam. c. 37m). The burial was not further disturbed. The tumulus appears to have been removed subsequently through further quarrying. (Walshe 1931, 121; Waddell 1990, 162) 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 Friarhill. ## 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 Friarhill, about 1 in 10 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 Friarhill. - 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/friarhill.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/friarhill.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/friarhill.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Friarhill 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) - Blackhill: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/blackhill.md - Crehelp: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/crehelp.md - Forristeen: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/forristeen.md - Manofwar: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/manofwar.md - Plezica: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/plezica.md - Tober Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/tober-upper.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/friarhill - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/friarhill