Hollybrook
Hollybrook is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmacanoge, barony of Rathdown, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Muileann Réamainn.
- Area
- 54.2 ha
- 134 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 681 m²
- Zoning
- R3
- Secondary Development Area
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hollybrook, from 59 m² to 131,201 m² (13.12 ha, 32.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R3Secondary Development Area (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
Bray Municipal District Local Area Plan 2018, Wicklow · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - N3.1Public Utility (Gas)
Bray Municipal District Local Area Plan 2018, Wicklow · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Passive Open Space (Open space, park)
Bray Municipal District Local Area Plan 2018, Wicklow · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Jul 2025Conditional
provision of solar panels to existing garage and also for the change of use from restricted use as dwelling to use by all classes of persons and removal of Condition No. 2 (a) (Section 38) of Planning Register Reference 90/6294
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560497
8 Apr 2025Conditional
modifications to the existing dwelling house including: (i) changes to select window and door opes; (ii) removal of a side annex (12 sq m), internal partition walls and roof; (iii) reconfiguration of internal layout; and (iv) construction of a part 1 No. – part 2 No. storey extension (183 sq m) to the side and rear of the existing dwelling house. The proposed development will increase the Gross Floor Area of the dwelling house from 105 sq m to 276 sq m. The development will also include: removal of 4 No. single storey ancillary shed / glasshouse structures (Total Gross Floor Area of 26 sq m); provision of a single storey shed (8 sq m); decommissioning of the existing septic tank and provision of a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area; soakpit; hard and soft landscaping; and all associated site and development works above and below ground
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560261
24 Aug 2022Conditional
new dwelling and all associated ancillary works to create new access road, surface water soakaway and foul water treatment and percolation area
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22924
26 Jul 2022N/a
new dwelling and all associated ancillary works to create new access road, surface water soakaway and foul water treatment and percolation area
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22819
10 Nov 2020Conditional
demolition of existing single storey side extension, and the construction of a new single storey side extension, internal alterations and associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 201137
13 Nov 2019Conditional
attic conversion comprising 66 sqm, existing outbuilding, one existing vehicular entrances and subsequent to the above PERMISSION is sought for the following installation of new wastewater treatment system, provision of 2 new windows in northern elevation to serve two ground floor bedrooms
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 191222
25 Oct 2019N/a
existing dwelling as constructed, comprising 245 sqm, two existing out buildings, two existing vehicular entrances and subsequent to the above, full PLANNING PERMISSION is sought for installation of new wastewater treatment system and provision of two new windows in northern elevation to serve two ground floor bedrooms
Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 191165
14 Sept 2018Conditional
removal of existing wall to be replaced with new wall and entrance (to serve large vehicle deliveries) along with alterations to existing pathway to facilitate entrance and all associated ancillary site works and services
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 181018
13 Apr 2018Unconditional
reconfigure the layout of the N11 north of Junction 8 to restrict direct access from private lands onto the southbound M11 mainline on the immediate approach to Junction 8 within the townland of Kilmacanogue. Delineation and construction of segregation islands to facilitate the installation of a parallel service road for approximately 600m on the south bound approach to Junction 8 Kilmacanogue on the N.11. Construction of 3 gantries to facilitate signage of the proposed road layout. Widening of the N.11 into the central reserve to facilitate the proposed works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18382
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 Hollybrook.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Hollybrook.
Architectural heritage
- Hollybrook, country house, 1830–1840 · National interest
Description
Terraced multiple-bay two-storey former country house, built 1835, to designs of William Vitruvius Morrison. The building was partly destroyed by fire in 1969. The north-west wing was then converted to four houses. The remaining portion of the original house is one dwelling. The building is constructed in granite and comprised of a series of gabled wings. The panelled door is part set within a Tudor-arched opening. Window openings generally have Tudor-arched heads and they have mainly casement side-hung timber frames. The pitched roof is finished with natural slate cast-iron rainwater goods. Chimneystacks are ashlar granite with plain caps and tall decorative clay pots. Internally the main portion of the original house has many original features including the original stairs and stained glass windows depicting the ancestral history. The building is set within a large mature garden.
- Hollybrook, folly, 1870–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding turret, built 1875, on a circular plan. The structure is constructed in rubble fieldstone. The turret has a castellated top with decorative machicolation. There is a square tourelle which is set on a corbelled base. The turret is set within what was the Hollybrook estate approximately half a kilometre to the south-east of Hollybrook. It is set on a rise with a wooded area.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Hollybrook, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3342 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Hollybrook with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Hollybrook · Muileann Réamainn
- Area
- 542,308 m² (54.23 ha, 134.01 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacanoge, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathdown
- Electoral division
- Kilmacanoge, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 15,082 people lived in 4,983 households in the Kilmacanoge electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballywaltrin, Barchuillia Commons, Giltspur, Glencormick South, Kilmacanoge North, Wingfield
- Placenames
- Hollybrook 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.