Lobawn
Lobawn is a townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow.
- Area
- 167.9 ha
- 415 acres
- Land parcels
- 1
- registered freehold, median 1,197,588 m² (119.76 ha, 295.93 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Lobawn, from 1,197,588 m² (119.76 ha, 295.93 acres) to 1,197,588 m² (119.76 ha, 295.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 3 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
No zone of a development plan covers Lobawn 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
No planning application touches the townland of Lobawn in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Wicklow Mountains SAC 002122
- Special Protection Area: Wicklow Mountains SPA 004040
Recorded monuments
- WI022-001 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a marked E-facing slope immediately NE of the summit of Lobawn mountain. A square enclosure (90m x 90m) shown on the 1910 edition of the OS 6-inch map only. Not visible at ground level and not visible on aerial photographs. Possibly a 19th-century artillery observation platform of the Glen of Imall range to the SE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eoin Grogan Date of upload: 13 December 2012
- WI022-002 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a gentle to marked SE-facing slope on the NE edge of a deep gully (Lobawn Brook) in forestry. Oval enclosure (dims. 170m NW-SE; 150m NE-SW) defined at the NW and NE by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2-2.4m; H 0.5m) and at the S by a steep scarp (H 1m). 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lobawn.
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 Lobawn, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lobawn.
- 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 Lobawn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Lobawn
- Area
- 1,678,858 m² (167.89 ha, 414.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Upper
- Electoral division
- Imael North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 257 people lived in 93 households in the Imael North electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Blackpits, Blane, Corragh, Pollaghadoo, Stranahely
- Placenames
- Lobawn 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.