Slaney Park
Townland in the civil parish of Baltinglass, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Páirc na Sláine
- Area
- 37 ha
- 91 acres
- Land parcels
- 0
- registered freehold
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Slaney Park. The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Slaney Park 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
13 Nov 2024Conditional
planning permission for the following: (a) modifications to existing dwelling house to include demolition of existing sun room to the front and small annex extension to the rear, (b) construction of new single storey extensions to side and rear of existing dwelling with the replacement of the existing roof / raising the pitch, (c) partial demolition and conversion of existing farm building to habitable space, farm building is located at the side of the existing dwelling. Proposal includes linking farm building to main dwelling, (d) decommissioning and backfilling existing sewage treatment system and replacing same with a new on-site domestic wastewater treatment system, (e) upgrading existing recessed vehicular entrance off main road, landscaping and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460705
13 Aug 2021Conditional
(a) modifications to existing dwelling house to include demolition of existing sun room space to the front and small annex extension to the rear (b) partial demolition and conversion of existing farm building to include new contemporary glazed link to main dwelling (c) connection to all existing site services, landscaping and all associated site development works.
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211009
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
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Slaney Park.
Architectural heritage
- Slaney Park House, country house, 1940–1950 · Regional interest
Description
Detached seven-bay two-storey with basement Regency style country house, built c.1810, but reduced by a storey in 1946 following a fire. To the north there is a single-bay part single and part two-storey projection. The front elevation is composed of two large full-height bowed bays at either side of a Doric portico. The walls are finished in rusticated render and lined render, and rise to a parapet which obscures the roof. Rendered chimneystacks. The entrance consists of a panelled timber double door with panelled pilaster jambs and rectangular fanlight. There are semi-circular headed and flat-headed window openings, all with two over two timber sash frames. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The country house is set within a small demesne.
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 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_2769 (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 Slaney Park with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Slaney Park · Páirc na Sláine
- Area
- 369,837 m² (36.98 ha, 91.39 acres)
- Civil parish
- Baltinglass, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Upper
- Electoral division
- Talbotstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Talbotstown electoral division: 456 people in 154 households; 85% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloghcastle, Holdenstown Lower, Kilmurry Lower, Kilmurry Upper, Newtownsaunders
- Placenames
- Slaney Park 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.