Seabank
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbride, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Bruach na Mara
- Area
- 108.6 ha
- 268 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 3,526 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres)
- Zoning
- C5
- Tourism
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Seabank, from 1,024 m² to 238,594 m² (23.86 ha, 58.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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
- C5Tourism (Tourism and related)
Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 Nov 2022Conditional
erection of a front porch, replace existing flat roof on rear of existing dwelling with pitched roof married into existing pitched roof by raising the height of the existing pitched roof by 800mm, to remove existing chimneys, install a solar panel on the new south facing roof, and to replace existing flat roof on existing shed/domestic garage to rear of existing dwelling with a pitched roof, together with all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221172
25 Oct 2022N/a
erection of a front porch, replace existing flat roof on rear of existing dwelling with pitched roof married into existing pitched roof by raising the height of the existing pitched roof by 800mm, to remove existing chimneys, install a solar panel on the new south facing roof, and to replace existing flat roof on existing shed/domestic garage to rear of existing dwelling with a pitched roof, together with all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221131
5 Aug 2021Conditional
single storey dwelling and domestic garage with a waste water treatment unit and percolation area to current EPA specifications, plus bored well, together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21968
19 Dec 2017Conditional
alterations and additions. The proposed works comprise of the demolition of existing front entrance porch and single storey conservatory structure to the side and rear of the existing dwelling, the demolition of an existing detached single storey garage structure to rear, the construction of a new single storey master bedroom extension to gable end, the construction of a new single storey kitchen / utility, dining and living room extension to rear, the relocation of main entrance door from the front to the side of the dwelling, alterations to existing window openings, and all associated site works, to include the construction of a new on site waste water treatment facility to current EPA standards and modifications to existing site entrance
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 171502
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Arklow Sand Dunes 001746
Recorded monuments
- WI041-010 Prehistoric site - lithic scatter
Description
A good scatter of struck flint found in a flat field close to a rocky coast. (Information Prof. F. Mitchell/ Prof. P. Woodman) 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 Seabank.
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 20 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; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3375 (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 Seabank with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Seabank · Bruach na Mara
- Area
- 1,085,594 m² (108.56 ha, 268.26 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbride, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Kilbride, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilbride electoral division: 928 people in 304 households; 85% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymoney, Ferrybank, Johnstown South, Killiniskyduff, Tiknock
- Placenames
- Seabank 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.