# Friarshill, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rathnew, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Cnoc na mBráithre. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 46,593 m² (4.66 ha, 11.51 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 380 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rathnew, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/rathnew.md - Barony: Newcastle - Electoral division: Wicklow Urban, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 7,102 people lived in 2,753 households in the Wicklow Urban electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 7% 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/55957 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250696 - Centre: latitude 52.982194, longitude -6.051784 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Friarshill, from 106 m² to 1,199 m²; 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5616586: 1,199 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5616586.md - Parcel 5758561: 1,146 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5758561.md - Parcel 5308420: 1,053 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5308420.md - Parcel 5274937: 898 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5274937.md - Parcel 5954311: 781 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5954311.md - Parcel 6078658: 733 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6078658.md - Parcel 5069846: 587 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5069846.md - Parcel 1277265: 493 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277265.md - Parcel 5369214: 446 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5369214.md - Parcel 5366491: 314 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5366491.md - Parcel 5701161: 242 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5701161.md - Parcel 4953907: 164 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4953907.md - Parcel 5086659: 157 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5086659.md - Parcel 5285201: 154 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5285201.md - Parcel 6201409: 154 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6201409.md - Parcel 4997204: 131 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4997204.md - Parcel 5158366: 122 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5158366.md - Parcel 5130753: 106 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5130753.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - R2 Existing Residential (Existing residential): Wicklow Town - Rathnew Local Area Plan, Wicklow; 19 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.wicklow.ie/Living/Services/Planning/Development-Plans-Strategies/Local-Area-Town-Settlement-Plans/Wicklow-Town-Rathnew/Wicklow-Town-Rathnew-Local-Area-Plan-2025-2031 - G1 Open Space (Open space, park): Wicklow Town - Rathnew Local Area Plan, Wicklow; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.wicklow.ie/Living/Services/Planning/Development-Plans-Strategies/Local-Area-Town-Settlement-Plans/Wicklow-Town-Rathnew/Wicklow-Town-Rathnew-Local-Area-Plan-2025-2031 - G3 Natural Areas (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): Wicklow Town - Rathnew Local Area Plan, Wicklow; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.wicklow.ie/Living/Services/Planning/Development-Plans-Strategies/Local-Area-Town-Settlement-Plans/Wicklow-Town-Rathnew/Wicklow-Town-Rathnew-Local-Area-Plan-2025-2031 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 28 Nov 2022, Wicklow County Council 221263: N/a. Permission. first floor extension to the side and rear. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/221263/0 - 19 Oct 2021, Wicklow County Council 211255: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. sub division of site and the provision of new 104m2 detached bungalow to the side garden of no. 39 Friars Hill Road. Provision also sought for new vehicular entrance to serve proposed dwelling. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/211255/0 - 7 Jan 2021, Wicklow County Council 215: Unconditional. Extension of duration. extend the appropriate period of 15/627 - three number two storey dwelling houses, with driveways, access, walls, drainage, landscaping and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/215/0 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 Friarshill. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Friarshill. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Friarshill. ## 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 Friarshill, 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 gives no landslide susceptibility class here. Parts of the land are made ground. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3401, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3401.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/friarshill.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/friarshill.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/friarshill.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Friarshill 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) - Ballynerrin: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballynerrin-250293.md - Bollarney South: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/bollarney-south.md - Glebe: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/glebe-250716.md - Wicklow: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/wicklow.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/friarshill - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/friarshill