Plezica
Townland in the civil parish of Dunlavin, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow
- Area
- 89 ha
- 220 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 13,388 m² (1.34 ha, 3.31 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Plezica, from 193 m² to 128,508 m² (12.85 ha, 31.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Plezica 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
14 Jun 2022Refused
a) minor modifications, additional rooflights and additional 14.91 mt.sq ground floor enlargement incorporated during construction (in 2007) of existing double garage & stables granted permission under Planning ref 06/5694, b) change of use from double garage & stables to family recreations area. c) permission for new 16 mt.sq single storey link between existing sunroom and family recreation area associated with the dwelling
Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22666
4 May 2021Refused
the development consists of the a) minor modifications, additional rooflights and additional 14.91 mt.sq. ground floor enlargement incorporated during construction (in 2007) of existing double garage & stables granted permission under planning ref 06/5694 b) change of use from double garage & stables to family recreation area associated with the dwelling
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 21505
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 Plezica.
Recorded monuments
- WI015-088 Stone circle
Description
On a slight crest in a broad valley of gently undulating terrain. A circular area (diam. c. 10.4m) enclosed by eighteen stones with a large granite boulder at centre (H 0.8m; 1.1m x 0.8m). The mainly granite stones are quite evenly spaced (c. 50cm apart) and are of a broadly similar size (H c. 0.35m; 0.65m x 0.55m). The largest stone (H 0.4m; 0.95m x 0.8m) is at S. A bank has possibly been incorporated into the perimeter of the circle at SE. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 10 January 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Plezica.
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 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 Plezica.
- 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 Plezica with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Plezica
- Area
- 890,486 m² (89.05 ha, 220.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dunlavin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Lower
- Electoral division
- Dunlavin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dunlavin electoral division: 1,580 people in 526 households; 66% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Blackhill, Brewershill, Cowpasture, Crehelp, Friarhill, Lorrug, Merginstown, Toberbeg, Uppertown
- Placenames
- Plezica 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.