Kilcandra
Townland in the civil parish of Dunganstown, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Cill Chainre
- Area
- 74.4 ha
- 184 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 15,220 m² (1.52 ha, 3.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcandra, from 430 m² to 159,974 m² (16 ha, 39.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Kilcandra 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
24 Apr 2023N/a
conversion of domestic garage to living accommodation for stud farm and permission for upgrade of existing sewerage facilities to accommodate same with all associated site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 23406
20 Mar 2023N/a
1) permission for retention of conversion of domestic garage to living accommodation for stud farm staff and 2) permission for upgrade of existing sewerage facilities to accommodate same with all associated works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 23265
11 Apr 2022Conditional
construct an indoor horse arena including 2 no. stables, tack room & storage room with all associated site works in existing farmyard
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22374
25 Jan 2021Conditional
material change of use of part of farmyard and part of shed for operation of firewood cutting, bagging, storage and loading firewood for delivery off site and associated works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2152
1 May 2019Refused
material change of use of part of farmyard and part of shed for operation of firewood cutting, bagging, storage and loading firewood for delivery off site and associated works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 19463
19 Feb 2018N/a
change of use from original smithy building to one bedroom unit for holiday letting and waste water treatment system to EPA 2009 standards and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18161
2 Feb 2018Conditional
to erect an extension to existing sheep shed with associated site works in farmyard
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 1885
19 Jul 2017Refused
machinery shed / private workshop and material change of use of land for use as storage compound for plant machinery and trucks and associated works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 17874
13 Jul 2017Refused
retention for material change of use of part of farmyardand part of shed for the operation of a firewood cutting, bagging, storage and loading firewood for delivery off site and associated site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 17844
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 Kilcandra.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilcandra.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilcandra.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, 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 Kilcandra.
- 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 Kilcandra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Kilcandra · Cill Chainre
- Area
- 743,738 m² (74.37 ha, 183.78 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dunganstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Dunganstown West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dunganstown West electoral division: 481 people in 181 households; 82% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygannon Beg, Ballygannon More, Bolagh Upper, Cunniamstown Big, Springfarm, Tullylusk, Westaston Demesne, Westaston Hill
- Placenames
- Kilcandra 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.