Killickabawn
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcoole, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Cill Mhic Ó mBirn
- Area
- 34.2 ha
- 84 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 2,338 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killickabawn, from 19 m² to 116,386 m² (11.64 ha, 28.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Killickabawn 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
27 Apr 2026N/a
part 8 - submissions should be made to the relevant department as specified on the site notice (not to the Planning Department) - construct the N11 Kilpedder 'Rat-Run' Road Safety Improvement Scheme. The scheme will enhance cyclist safety by providing a northbound cycle route through Kilpedder enabling northbound cyclists to bypass the N11 from south of junction 11 (Kilpedder) to north junction 10 (Delgany)
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2680
23 Aug 2025Conditional
• removal of existing windows and front door from front elevation entrance area. • construction of front door canopy serving dwelling entrance, also forming first floor balcony including new windows and front door. • all together with other associated site works to complete this development
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560660
3 Nov 2022N/a
construction of 3 detached dwellings, blocking up of existing agriculture entrance onto public road, new entrance onto public road, new internal road layout, connection to public water supply, wastewater treatment units and polishing filters for each dwelling and associate works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221170
25 Feb 2022Conditional
shed in rear garden
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 22177
17 Jan 2022N/a
shed in rear garden
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2222
18 Mar 2021Conditional
side extension (43sqm) to existing commercial premises for a disabled toilet, relocation of ladies toilets and store room. Minor modifications to the plan layout to accommodate this side extension
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21288
13 Dec 2019Conditional
predominantly two storey residential car building with an attic plant room and storage area. The gross floor area will be 12067 sqm of which 5575 sqm is at ground level; 5377 sqm is at first floor and a further 1115 sqm is at attic floor level. The accommodation will comprise ensuite bedrooms, day spaces, balconies at upper floor level and ancillary sanitary accommodation for residents with support services such as recreation / activity rooms, physiotherapy suite, treatment and occupational therapy rooms, Oratory, Daycare and hairdressing. It will include a family run café (open to the public), administration offices, staff rest, dining, changing and training facilities, catering kitchens, laundry, plant room, maintenance workshop and electrical switch room, a substation and standby generator. The site will be fully landscaped with provision of sensory gardens and walkways including gazebo features and mounded screen planting 1.2m above finished ground level. Employee, service and visitor car and covered cycle parking will be provided. The existing site entrance from the L1043 will be improved and, with a driveway, provide the primary access. The existing access from the L5406 will be improved to provide a recreational and emergency gated access from / to Willowgrove. The development will connect to the existing water supply infrastructure in the area. The development will connect to a proposed pumping station and rising main south of the site. This in turn will discharge foul effluent from the site at Killickbawn into the Greystones Delgany Kilcoole public district sewerage scheme
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 191338
18 Oct 2019Conditional
vehicular entrance piers, walls and driveway for "Torfield" existing dwelling for sufficient sight lines onto the public road along with amendments to Planning Register Grant Reference 19/617 which consists of (a) dedicating the existing vehicular entrance for the new dwelling house and retaining its existing entrance piers, walls and gate
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 191136
6 Jun 2019Conditional
subdivision of the site with a timber fence and the construction of a new detached one and half storey 2 bedroom dwelling, provision of 1 no new wastewater treatment system and percolation area to meet current EPA standards for the new detached dwelling along with all associated site development works, drainage, driveway access and landscaping to accommodate new dwelling, provision of 1 no new wastewater treatment system and percolation area to current EPA standards for the existing 'Torfield' dwelling along with all associated site development works, provision of surface water soakaway to meet BRE Digest 365 standards for the new detached house, widening of existing entrance off public road, dismantling and removal of prefabricated shed 2 - 77 sqm and relocation of prefabricated shed 1 - 48 sqm on the footprint of shed 2
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19617
23 May 2019N/a
subdivision of the site with a timber fence and the construction of a new detached one and half storey 2 bedroom dwelling, provision of 1 no new wastewater treatment system and percolation area to meet current EPA standards for the new detached dwelling along with all associated site development works, drainage, driveway access and landscaping to accommodate new dwelling, provision of 1 no new wastewater treatment system and percolation area to current EPA standards for the existing 'Torfield' dwelling along with all associated site development works, provision of surface water soakaway to meet BRE Digest 365 standards for the new detached house
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19559
6 Feb 2019Conditional
amendments to previously granted permission 16/1192, permission to widen existing entrance and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 19110
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 Killickabawn.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Killickabawn.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killickabawn.
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3365 (ZIP).
- 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 Killickabawn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Killickabawn · Cill Mhic Ó mBirn
- Area
- 341,594 m² (34.16 ha, 84.41 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcoole, and its townlands
- Barony
- Newcastle
- Electoral division
- Kilcoole, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilcoole electoral division: 12,163 people in 4,109 households; 74% of households own their home; 68% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Downs, Drummin East, Drummin West, Holywell, Johnstown, Tinnapark Demesne
- Placenames
- Killickabawn 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.