Spinans East
Spinans East is a townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow.
- Area
- 73.7 ha
- 182 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 45,534 m² (4.55 ha, 11.25 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Spinans East, from 344 m² to 160,129 m² (16.01 ha, 39.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Spinans East 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
17 Nov 2024Conditional
construct a single storey dwelling house, garage, new site entrance, bored well, proprietary treatment system and associated percolation area, all ancillary site works and services
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460714
9 Aug 2021N/a
construct a split level dwelling house comprising of single storey to the front with two-storey to the rear, with domestic garage under single storey portion, bored well, proprietary treatment system and associated percolation area, new site entrance, all ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21981
27 Jan 2021Refused
10 year permission for Construction of up to 5 No. wind turbines with a maximum overall blade top height of 165m, with a transformer at each turbine and associated hard stand area; 1No. 38kV electrical substation and all associated infrastructure and works; 20kV underground cables facilitating the connection of turbines to 38kV electrical substation and all associated infrastructure and works; Circa 6.5km of 38kV underground cabling and all associated works along public roads to facilitate the connection of the proposed 38kV wind farm electrical substation to the existing Stratford 38/110kV substation referred to as 'the grid route', Provision of a heritage trail circa 1km in length to include associated information signage (located at the key heritage assets) and parking area; Replacement of existing grass verge with a new 1 metre wide footway at each bridge crossing along the 'grid route'; New site tracks, upgraded site tracks and all associated works; 1 No. 30m permanent meteorological mast and all associated infrastructure and works; A temporary site compound and all associated works; and All associated and ancillary site development works The application site includes Protected Structures. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development and will be submitted with the application.
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2160
19 Jan 2021N/a
10 year permission for Construction of up to 5 No. wind turbines with a maximum overall blade top height of 165m, with a transformer at each turbine and associated hard stand area; 1No. 38kV electrical substation and all associated infrastructure and works; 20kV underground cables facilitating the connection of turbines to 38kV electrical substation and all associated infrastructure and works; Circa 6.5km of 38kV underground cabling and all associated works along public roads to facilitate the connection of the proposed 38kV wind farm electrical substation to the existing Stratford 38/110kV substation referred to as 'the grid route', Provision of a heritage trail circa 1km in length to include associated information signage (located at the key heritage assets) and parking area; Replacement of existing grass verge with a new 1 metre wide footway at each bridge crossing along the 'grid route'; New site tracks, upgraded site tracks and all associated works; 1 No. 30m permanent meteorological mast and all associated infrastructure and works; A temporary site compound and all associated works; and All associated and ancillary site development works. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development and will be submitted with the application
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2128
7 Dec 2020N/a
single storey dwelling, new entrance and driveway, bored well, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 201244
27 Jul 2020Conditional
single storey dwelling house, garage, new site entrance, bored well, proprietary treatment system and associated percolation area, all ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20719
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 Spinans East.
Recorded monuments
- WI027-100 Cupmarked stone
Description
In native woodland with stream forming townland boundary with Cloghnagaune 60m to S, in an area known locally as the ‘Chair Field’. St. Bridget’s Chair (WI027-031002-) 150m to S and St. Bridget’s Well (WI027-031003-) 200m to SSE. Large boulder in woodland the surface of which has at least 16 cup marks with two or three lines running across the surface of the rock. See attached photo supplied courtesy of Paul Carberry Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien based on details provided by Paul Carberry Date of upload: 8 July 2020
- WI027-103 Mound
Description
In modern coniferous plantation. Depicted on the 1838 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a small grove of trees on poorly drained lands on the landscaped demesne lands of Kilranelagh House located 240m to SW. Not depicted as an antiquity on any ed. OSi historic maps. Shown on the OSi 25-inch map as a sub-rectangular shaped enclosure (dims. 18m N-S x 18m E-W) with trees standing inside. Present remains consists of a slightly raised mound on a hillock with large boulders or rock outcrop visible at NW. Possible remains of a small barrow standing on a low hillock which may have been re-used as a landscape feature/tree plantation associated with nearby Kilranelagh House. See attached photographs provided by Robert Hanbidge Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Robert Hanbidge Date of upload: 25 Febuary 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Spinans East.
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 Spinans East, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Spinans East.
- 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 Spinans East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Spinans East
- Area
- 737,443 m² (73.74 ha, 182.23 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Upper
- Electoral division
- Eadestown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 215 people lived in 73 households in the Eadestown electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloghnagaune, Kilranelagh, Moorstown, Spinans Hill, Spinans Middle
- Placenames
- Spinans East 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.