# Oldpaddocks, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Blessington, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Seanphaideac. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 181,702 m² (18.17 ha, 44.9 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,944 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): C2.1 Employment, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 10 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Blessington, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/blessington.md - Barony: Talbotstown Lower - Electoral division: Blessington, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Blessington electoral division: 4,588 people in 1,608 households; 71% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 8% 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/54638 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 251118 - Centre: latitude 53.186693, longitude -6.525623 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oldpaddocks, from 169 m² to 60,137 m² (6.01 ha, 14.86 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1289233: 60,137 m² (6.01 ha, 14.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289233.md - Parcel 1278272: 54,705 m² (5.47 ha, 13.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278272.md - Parcel 1275090: 32,679 m² (3.27 ha, 8.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1275090.md - Parcel 1257622: 6,786 m² (0.68 ha, 1.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1257622.md - Parcel 1255491: 4,827 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1255491.md - Parcel 1257431: 4,550 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1257431.md - Parcel 1294449: 3,136 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1294449.md - Parcel 1297556: 2,979 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1297556.md - Parcel 1262388: 2,944 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262388.md - Parcel 1282279: 2,317 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282279.md - Parcel 1276258: 2,218 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1276258.md - Parcel 1299846: 1,759 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1299846.md - Parcel 6050796: 1,641 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6050796.md - Parcel 6050825: 1,107 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6050825.md - Parcel 1278841: 862 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278841.md - Parcel 6050820: 210 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6050820.md - Parcel 4812550: 169 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4812550.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - C2.1 Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment): Blessington Local Area Plan, Wicklow; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.wicklow.ie/Living/Services/Planning/Development-Plans-Strategies/Local-Area-Town-Settlement-Plans/Blessington/Blessington-Local-Area-Plan-2025-2031 - P4 Extractive Industry (Quarrying / mining): Blessington Local Area Plan, Wicklow; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.wicklow.ie/Living/Services/Planning/Development-Plans-Strategies/Local-Area-Town-Settlement-Plans/Blessington/Blessington-Local-Area-Plan-2025-2031 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 10 applications, newest first. - 22 Dec 2025, Wicklow County Council 2561059: N/a. Permission. • extension of the existing sand and gravel pit, in two separate but contiguous working areas on the eastern side of the Doran’s Pit Complex; • installation of new site infrastructure to facilitate the proposed pit development, principally a weighbridge and associated site / weighbridge office, a wheelwash, additional settlement lagoons, electrical charging infrastructure, staff welfare facilities and equipment / sample storage facilities; • stripping of overburden soils for immediate use in construction of environmental / perimeter safety bunds and stockpiling of any excess topsoil and overburden soil cover pending its re-use as cover material in future pit restoration works; • extraction of in-situ sand and gravel to within 2m of the in-situ groundwater table using battery powered (i.e. non-fossil fuel powered) mechanical excavators; • temporary removal and subsequent reinstatement of the existing internal haul road running north-south inside the eastern property boundary. The reinstated road will be lowered to run over the working floor of the Upper Pit and will rise northwards on an earth embankment (ramp) to the existing site access along Darker’s Lane; • transfer of excavated sand and gravel to the existing processing (washing and screening) plant to the west of the excavation area using battery powered dump trucks; • continued processing of excavated sand and gravel at the existing (mains-powered) processing plant to the west of the excavation area; • use of the adjoining (existing) pond and additional (new) ponds to settle out the separated fine particulate (silt) materials; • continued stockpiling of unprocessed sand and gravel and/or processed aggregates around the washing and screening plant, as required; • dispatch of processed aggregates off-site via the existing site access road and its junction with the N81 National Secondary Road at Santryhill (and any future replacement link road to the Blessington Inner Relief Road constructed over the life of the proposed development); • upgrading of the internal haul roads across Roadstone lands as required to support the proposed pit development, to include re-surfacing of the section between the proposed wheelwash facility and the existing N81 junction where necessary; • implementation of scheme to progressively restore excavated pit areas (in phases) to agricultural grassland in tandem with extraction activities. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561059/0 - 17 Nov 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560929: N/a. Permission. • extension of the existing sand and gravel pit, in two separate but contiguous working areas on the eastern side of the Doran’s Pit Complex; • installation of new site infrastructure to facilitate the proposed pit development, principally a weighbridge and associated site / weighbridge office, a wheelwash, additional settlement lagoons, electrical charging infrastructure, staff welfare facilities and equipment / sample storage facilities; • stripping of overburden soils for immediate use in construction of environmental / perimeter safety bunds and stockpiling of any excess topsoil and overburden soil cover pending its re-use as cover material in future pit restoration works; • extraction of in-situ sand and gravel to within 2m of the in-situ groundwater table using battery powered (i.e. non-fossil fuel powered) mechanical excavators; • temporary removal and subsequent reinstatement of the existing internal haul road running north-south inside the eastern property boundary. The reinstated road will be lowered to run over the working floor of the Upper Pit and will rise northwards on an earth embankment (ramp) to the existing site access along Darker’s Lane; • transfer of excavated sand and gravel to the existing processing (washing and screening) plant to the west of the excavation area using battery powered dump trucks; • continued processing of excavated sand and gravel at the existing (mains-powered) processing plant to the west of the excavation area; • use of the adjoining (existing) pond and additional (new) ponds to settle out the separated fine particulate (silt) materials; • continued stockpiling of unprocessed sand and gravel and/or processed aggregates around the washing and screening plant, as required; • dispatch of processed aggregates off-site via the existing site access road and its junction with the N81 National Secondary Road at Santryhill (and any future replacement link road to the Blessington Inner Relief Road constructed over the life of the proposed development); • upgrading of the internal haul roads across Roadstone lands as required to support the proposed pit development, to include re-surfacing of the section between the proposed wheelwash facility and the existing N81 junction where necessary; • implementation of scheme to progressively restore excavated pit areas (in phases) to agricultural grassland in tandem with extraction activities. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560929/0 - 6 Nov 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560894: N/a. Permission. The development on a 24.3-hectare application site comprises: • Extension of the existing sand and gravel pit, in two separate but contiguous working areas on the eastern side of the Doran’s Pit Complex; • Installation of new site infrastructure to facilitate the proposed pit development, principally a weighbridge and associated site / weighbridge office, a wheelwash, additional settlement lagoons, electrical charging infrastructure, staff welfare facilities and equipment / sample storage facilities; • Stripping of overburden soils for immediate use in construction of environmental / perimeter safety bunds and stockpiling of any excess topsoil and overburden soil cover pending its re-use as cover material in future pit restoration works; • Extraction of in-situ sand and gravel to within 2m of the in-situ groundwater table using battery powered (i.e. non-fossil fuel powered) mechanical excavators; • Temporary removal and subsequent reinstatement of the existing internal haul road running north-south inside the eastern property boundary. The reinstated road will be lowered to run over the working floor of the Upper Pit and will rise northwards on an earth embankment (ramp) to the existing site access along Darker’s Lane; • Transfer of excavated sand and gravel to the existing processing (washing and screening) plant to the west of the excavation area using battery powered dump trucks; • Continued processing of excavated sand and gravel at the existing (mains-powered) processing plant to the west of the excavation area; • Use of the adjoining (existing) pond and additional (new) ponds to settle out the separated fine particulate (silt) materials; • Continued stockpiling of unprocessed sand and gravel and/or processed aggregates around the washing and screening plant, as required; • Dispatch of processed aggregates off-site via the existing site access road and its junction with the N81 National Secondary Road at Santryhill (and any future replacement link road to the Blessington Inner Relief Road constructed over the life of the proposed development); • Upgrading of the internal haul roads across Roadstone lands as required to support the proposed pit development, to include re-surfacing of the section between the proposed wheelwash facility and the existing N81 junction where necessary; • Implementation of scheme to progressively restore excavated pit areas (in phases) to agricultural grassland in tandem with extraction activities.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560894/0 - 30 Oct 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560874: Conditional. Permission. 1. a single storey extension to the side and rear of existing house. 2. a new pitched roof to existing garage and conversion of garage into part of dwelling. 3. a new front porch. 4. a new pitched roof to existing shed. 5. conversion of attic to storage room with dormer window to the rear. 6. for the upgrading of existing septic tank to a treatment plant and soil polishing filter along with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560874/0 - 31 May 2024, Wicklow County Council 2460302: Refused. Permission. (i)(a) the retention of the rebuilding of part of an existing single storey out-building following natural collapse and the internal conversion of whole of said out-building to suit holiday-letting use and for the retention of small attached sheds. (b) planning permission for the change-of-use of the whole of aforementioned existing outbuilding, including rebuilt part and aforementioned sheds, to holiday-letting use, and (ii) the retention of existing foundations of a proposed garage/storage building and planning permission for continuance of the construction of said new garage/storage building for the incidental enjoyment of the existing main house and (iii) all associated site works and ancillary services as may be required and as may relate to the above, including a new waste water treatment system and percolation area.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460302/0 - 29 May 2024, Wicklow County Council 2460291: N/a. Retention. (i)(a) the retention of the rebuilding of part of an existing single storey out-building following natural collapse and the internal conversion of whole of said out-building to suit holiday-letting use and for the retention of small attached sheds. (b) Planning Permission for the change-of-use of the whole of aforementioned existing outbuilding, including rebuilt part and aforementioned sheds, to holiday-letting use, and (ii) the retention of existing foundations of a proposed garage/storage building and Planning Permission for continuance of the construction of said new garage/storage building for the incidental enjoyment of the existing main house and (iii) all associated site works and ancillary services as may be required and as may relate to the above, including a new waste water treatment system and percolation area. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460291/0 - 8 May 2024, Wicklow County Council 2460257: Conditional. Permission. permission for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a solar PV energy development and grid route, with a total site area of 28 hectares comprising of the construction of PV panels mounted on metal frames, transformer stations, new access tracks, perimeter fencing with CCTV cameras and access gates, temporary construction compounds, 20 kV underground cabling connecting the solar farm to the existing Blessington 38kV ESB Substation, and all ancillary grid infrastructure and associated works. The solar farm would be operational for 35 years. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of the application for planning permission. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460257/0 - 28 Mar 2024, Wicklow County Council 2460186: N/a. Permission. permission for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a solar PV energy development and grid route, with a total site area of 28 hectares comprising of the construction of PV panels mounted on metal frames, transformer stations, new access tracks, perimeter fencing with CCTV cameras and access gates, temporary construction compounds, 20 kV underground cabling connecting the solar farm to the existing Blessington 38kV ESB Substation, and all ancillary grid infrastructure and associated works. The solar farm would be operational for 35 years. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of the application for planning permission. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460186/0 - 9 Aug 2023, Wicklow County Council 2360207: Refused. Permission. (i) (a) the retention of the rebuilding of part of an existing single storey out-building following natural collapse and the internal conversion of whole of said out-building to suit residential use and for the retention of small attached sheds (b) planning permission for the change-of-use of the whole of aforementioned existing outbuilding, including rebuilt part and aforementioned sheds, to residential use for long-term rental purposes, and (ii) the retention of existing foundations of a proposed garage/storage building and planning permission for continuance of the construction of said new garage/storage building for the incidental enjoyment of the existing main house and (iii) all associated site works and ancillary services as may be required and as may relate to the above. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360207/0 - 6 Jul 2023, Wicklow County Council 23584: N/a. Retention. the rebuilding of part of an existing single storey out-building following natural collapse and the internal conversion of whole of said out-building to suit residential use and for the retention of small attached sheds, planning permission for the change of use of the whole of aforementioned existing out-building, including rebuilt part and aforementioned sheds, to residential use for long-term rental purposes, and the retention of existing foundations of a proposed garage/storage building and planning permission for continuance of the construction of said new garage/storage building for the incidental enjoyment of the existing main house and all associated site works and ancillary services as may be required and as may relate to the above. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/23584/0 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 Oldpaddocks. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Oldpaddocks. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Oldpaddocks. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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_2944, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2944.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/oldpaddocks.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/oldpaddocks.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/oldpaddocks.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Oldpaddocks with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Crosscoolharbour (Co. Kildare): https://everytownland.com/kildare/crosscoolharbour.md - Crosscoolharbour: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/crosscoolharbour.md - Dillonsdown: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/dillonsdown.md - Edmondstown: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/edmondstown.md - Newpaddocks: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/newpaddocks.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/oldpaddocks - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/oldpaddocks