Gormanstown
Townland in the civil parish of Dunganstown, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Ghormáin
- Area
- 85.4 ha
- 211 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 4,936 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gormanstown, from 1,415 m² to 265,616 m² (26.56 ha, 65.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Gormanstown 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
12 May 2025Conditional
construction of a new dwelling, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new well, block up existing entrance onto public road, new entrance onto public road and associate works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560351
22 Jul 2024N/a
a proposed new dwelling, new garage , well, a proposed secondary treatment system to current EPA guidelines with percolation area, a new entrance off public road and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460435
20 Jan 2023N/a
new single storey dwelling and garage, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, new site entrance, driveway and associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2337
26 Apr 2022Refused
a proposed new dwelling, new garage, well, a propose secondary treatment system to current EPA guidelines with percolation area, a new entrance off public road and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22450
27 Jan 2021Conditional
proposed new 31 sq.m. garage connected to existing dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2165
8 Feb 2017Conditional
dwelling and garage, new secondary treatment system and percolation area to current EPA guidelines, a new well, a new vehicular entrance and all associated site works (16/772)
Permission consequent, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17132
27 Jan 2017N/a
dwelling and garage, new secondary treatment system and percolation area to current EPA guidelines, a new well, a new vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission consequent · Wicklow County Council, 1777
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 Gormanstown.
Recorded monuments
- WI031-018 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a gentle N-facing slope. Shown on 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure, and as a mound (diam. c. 30m) on the 1907 edition. Not visible at ground level. 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
- WI031-052 Enclosure
Description
A cropmark of circular enclosure in tillage is visible on an aerial photograph (taken by Mr. Michael Moore on the 16 July 2006). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 17 July 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gormanstown.
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 high, 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 Gormanstown.
- 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 Gormanstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Gormanstown · Baile Ghormáin
- Area
- 853,643 m² (85.36 ha, 210.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dunganstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Dunganstown East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dunganstown East electoral division: 925 people in 305 households; 83% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballydowling, Ballykeppoge, Ballymoney, Bonabrocka, Cullen Lower
- Placenames
- Gormanstown 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.