Slievemweel
Slievemweel is a townland in the civil parish of Moyne, barony of Ballinacor South, Co. Wicklow.
- Area
- 233.5 ha
- 577 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 13,315 m² (1.33 ha, 3.29 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Slievemweel, from 161 m² to 324,031 m² (32.4 ha, 80.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Slievemweel 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
2 Sept 2026N/a
the construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit and soil polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto public road, blocking up existing agriculture entrance and associate works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2660786
24 Jan 2023Conditional
applications for planning permission for alterations to previously granted planning application (PRR 20/572 - not constructed), alterations include the redesign of the proposed extension (originally a two storey extension now single storey), and all associated works granted under PRR20/572
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2358
26 Nov 2020Conditional
1. Construction of a single storey dwelling with new vehicular entrance, driveway, well and effluent treatment system to EPA and all associated site works. 2. Block up the existing agricultural entrance. 3. To decommission the existing septic tank belonging to existing house and replace with new treatment system and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 201205
15 Sept 2020Conditional
construction of a single storey dwelling with garage, vehicular entrance off existing laneway and for a new wastewater treatment system to current EPA standards and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20904
10 Sept 2020N/a
construction of a single storey dwelling with garage, vehicular entrance off existing laneway and for a new wastewater treatment system to current EPA standards and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20893
19 Jun 2020Conditional
1. Construction of two storey extension onto the existing cottage 2. Demolition of single storey extension at side of existing cottage and reconstruction of same 3. Demolition of two no. outhouses 4. To block up existing agricultural entrance and retention of existing vehicular entrance 5. To decommission the existing septic tank and install a new treatment system to EPA standards and all ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20572
31 Jan 2020N/a
single storey dwelling with garage, vehicular entrance off existing laneway and for a new wastewater treatment system to current EPA standards and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2089
16 Oct 2019N/a
demolition of existing dwelling and two no outhouses, construction of replacement dwelling with garage, block up existing agricultural entrance and retention of existing vehicular entrance, decommission the existing septic tank and install a new treatment system to EPA standards and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 191130
3 Apr 2019Conditional
dwelling house with services and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19362
31 Jul 2017Conditional
dwelling house with services, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17927
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 Slievemweel.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Slievemweel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Slievemweel.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Slievemweel, about 1 in 5 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Slievemweel.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Slievemweel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Slievemweel
- Area
- 2,335,251 m² (233.53 ha, 577.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moyne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor South
- Electoral division
- Ballinglen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 234 people lived in 81 households in the Ballinglen electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Askakeagh, Askanagap, Ballymaghroe, Ballymanus, Corndog, Moyne, Slieveroe
- Placenames
- Slievemweel 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.