Sheepwalk

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sheepwalk, from 94 m² to 220,822 m² (22.08 ha, 54.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Sheepwalk 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.

• 20 Dec 2025Conditional

  retention of extensions and front elevation to house as constructed

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2561054

• 23 Jun 2023Refused

  the importation of material to in-fill and re-contour the subject site. Once the importation is complete, the applicant will seed the land in line with Teagasc guidelines and return it to agricultural use. The Operational Phase will see the Site being used as agricultural pastureland. The applicant proposes, subject to planning, to import clean greenfield soil and stone to remediate approximately 2.43ha of the total site. The 2.43ha. is divided into 3 distinct phases - Phase 1 is 0.78ha, Phase 2 is 0.77ha and Phase 3 is 0.88ha. A fill plan has been drawn up for the importation of 18,200tonnes to fill Phase 1, 23,085tonnes to fill Phase 2, and 42,721tonnes to fill Phase 3, equating to a total of 84,006tonnes of soil and stone. Permission is being sought for a 5-year period and will be subject to a waste facility permit

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23556

• 24 Mar 2023Conditional

  of 1) garden room and 2) garden storage building

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 23295

• 11 Jun 2021Conditional

  the construction of a bungalow with garage, new vehicular entrance and driveway, new effluent treatment system to current EPA standards and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21697

• 25 Apr 2019Conditional

  single storey dwelling with well, new vehicular entrance, new treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19438

• 19 Dec 2018Conditional

  converted farm buildings to 5 no agri tourism holiday homes, two timber one bedroom agri tourism holiday chalets, front sunroom to main house, proposed new wastewater treatment plant to serve entire development in lieu of existing two no septic tanks

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 181424

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Avoca River Valley 001748

Recorded monuments

• WI040-016 Standing stone
  Description

  'Cromwells Stone' marked on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. Not indicated on the later editions of the OS maps and when inspected by the ASI in 1990 no trace of a stone could be found. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 September 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Sheepwalk.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Sheepwalk, about 1 in 10 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3294 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Sheepwalk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Sheepwalk · Baile Bhuaig

Area

764,330 m² (76.43 ha, 188.87 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbride, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Kilbride, the unit of the census

Census 2022

928 people lived in 304 households in the Kilbride electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinacor, Ballycooleen, Killeagh, Knockanduff, Raheen, Shelton Abbey

Placenames

Sheepwalk 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.