# Holywell, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcoole, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 96,697 m² (9.67 ha, 23.89 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,440 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcoole, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/kilcoole.md - Barony: Newcastle - Electoral division: Kilcoole, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 12,163 people lived in 4,109 households in the Kilcoole electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 68% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55529 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250775 - Centre: latitude 53.116524, longitude -6.11136 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Holywell, from 2,326 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres) to 2,553 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1265614: 2,553 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1265614.md - Parcel 1285234: 2,326 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285234.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Holywell 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. - 21 Mar 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560197: Conditional. Permission. extension to side of existing dwelling provision of first floor window to side gable wall and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560197/0 - 7 Dec 2021, Wicklow County Council 211459: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (a) alterations to the north-east façade of an existing dwelling along with internal reconfiguration of bedroom accommodation, (b) a 53.5 sqm single storey extension to the north-east façade for use as an independent living unit, providing 1 no. bedroom, shower room ensuite facility and combined kitchen/dinging/living area, (c) all associated site works and landscaping and (d) modifications to the existing foul and surface water drainage systems, (e) and the replacement septic tank and percolation area to EPA 2021. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/211459/0 - 18 Nov 2021, Wicklow County Council 211379: N/a. Permission, 1 home. (a) alterations to the north-east façade of an existing dwelling along with internal reconfiguration of bedroom accommodation, (b) a 53.5 sqm single storey extension to the north-east façade for use as an independent living unit, providing 1 no. bedroom, shower room ensuite facility and combined kitchen/dinging/living area, (c) all associated site works and landscaping and (d) modifications to the existing foul and surface water drainage systems. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/211379/0 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 Holywell. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Holywell. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Holywell. ## 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 Holywell, 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 low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3365, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3365.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/holywell.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/holywell.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/holywell.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) - Holywell, Sea Road: 5 sales, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/holywell-sea-road.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Johnstown: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/johnstown-250787.md - Killickabawn: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/killickabawn.md - Tinnapark Demesne: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/tinnapark-demesne.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/holywell - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/holywell