Mattymount
Townland in the civil parish of Rathbran, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Mattymount
- Area
- 52.6 ha
- 130 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 3,685 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mattymount, from 1,635 m² to 84,497 m² (8.45 ha, 20.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Mattymount 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
5 Sept 2022Conditional
construction of a Calf shed, flow channel and all associated siteworks
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22964
23 Nov 2018Conditional
dwelling house, septic tank, percolation area, bored well, domestic garage, alterations to existing entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 181323
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: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
Recorded monuments
- WI021-044 Enclosure
Description
On a gentle SE-facing slope in pasture. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) indicated on both eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Given that the possible mound c. 500m WNW was reused as a tree-ring, this may also have been a landscape feature. Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 5 December 2012
- WI027-003 Enclosure
Description
Situated in flat marshy terrain on the floor of a stream valley. A circular, poorly preserved, enclosure (diam. 25m) defined by a fosse (Wth 4m). The interior is slightly domed. 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
- Tuckmill Bridge, bridge, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
Description
Four-arch road bridge over the River Slaney, built c.1780. The bridge is constructed in coursed rubble with dressed granite voussoirs to the semi-circular arches. The parapets have semi-dressed granite coping.
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 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_2728 (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 Mattymount with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Mattymount · Mattymount
- Area
- 525,773 m² (52.58 ha, 129.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathbran, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Upper
- Electoral division
- Tuckmill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tuckmill electoral division: 314 people in 104 households; 87% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Gibraltar, Goldenfort, Rampere, Saundersgrove, Tuckmill Lower, Tuckmill Upper
- Placenames
- Mattymount 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.