# Gormanstown, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Dunganstown, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Ghormáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 853,643 m² (85.36 ha, 210.94 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,936 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Dunganstown, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/dunganstown.md - Barony: Arklow - Electoral division: Dunganstown East, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55360 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250736 - Centre: latitude 52.936097, longitude -6.073884 (WGS 84) ## 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); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1283606: 265,616 m² (26.56 ha, 65.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1283606.md - Parcel 1249643: 209,199 m² (20.92 ha, 51.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1249643.md - Parcel 1268076: 186,582 m² (18.66 ha, 46.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268076.md - Parcel 2525330: 106,625 m² (10.66 ha, 26.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2525330.md - Parcel 1285293: 57,474 m² (5.75 ha, 14.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285293.md - Parcel 2525334: 5,095 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2525334.md - Parcel 2707298: 4,778 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2707298.md - Parcel 4730827: 4,396 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4730827.md - Parcel 4730851: 4,276 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4730851.md - Parcel 4730866: 4,203 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4730866.md - Parcel 4987106: 3,961 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4987106.md - Parcel 4987103: 1,415 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4987103.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 7 applications, newest first. - 12 May 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560351: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560351/0 - 22 Jul 2024, Wicklow County Council 2460435: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460435/0 - 20 Jan 2023, Wicklow County Council 2337: N/a. Permission. new single storey dwelling and garage, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, new site entrance, driveway and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2337/0 - 26 Apr 2022, Wicklow County Council 22450: Refused. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/22450/0 - 27 Jan 2021, Wicklow County Council 2165: Conditional. Permission. proposed new 31 sq.m. garage connected to existing dwelling and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2165/0 - 8 Feb 2017, Wicklow County Council 17132: Conditional. Permission consequent, 1 home. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/17132/0 - 27 Jan 2017, Wicklow County Council 1777: N/a. Permission consequent. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/1777/0 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 Gormanstown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI031-018: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI031-018----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI031-052----. 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 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 Gormanstown. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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, 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/gormanstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/gormanstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/gormanstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballydowling: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballydowling-250181.md - Ballykeppoge: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballykeppoge.md - Ballymoney: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballymoney-250266.md - Bonabrocka: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/bonabrocka.md - Cullen Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/cullen-lower.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/gormanstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/gormanstown