Stratford

128 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Stratford, from 15 m² to 292,871 m² (29.29 ha, 72.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Stratford 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.

• 8 Sept 2026N/a

  the construction of two no. three bed semi-detached dormer bungalows with access through recently granted proposed development file Ref:25/60813, proposed connection to public foul sewer and public watermain and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Wicklow County Council, 2660811

• 27 Aug 2026N/a

  the construction of two no. three bed semi-detached dormer bungalows with access through recently granted proposed development file Ref:25/60056, proposed connection to public foul sewer and public watermain and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Wicklow County Council, 2660771

• 20 Apr 2026Conditional

  a) re-roofing works; b) repair works to lead flashings, stone copings and masonry; c) minor maintenance works to building fabric; All the above including all site works and ancillary services at St. John Baptist Church, which is a protected structure (RPS 21-15, NIAH ref no: 16313006)

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660321

• 9 Dec 2025Conditional

  free standing solar panels

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2561001

• 13 Oct 2025Conditional

  detached two storey apartment block with single storey rear element for use as 3 No. apartments (2 No. two bedroom apartments and 1 No. one bedroom apartment), parking, open space, bin and bike spaces and entrance to serve the development and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560813

• 13 Mar 2025Conditional

  constructing a new dormer style dwelling, alterations to road layout which was previously approved under planning ref. 21/611 and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560178

• 4 Feb 2025Refused

  detached two storey apartment block with single storey rear element for use as 3 No. apartments (2 No. two bedroom apartments and 1 No. 1 one bedroom apartment), parking open space, bin and bike spaces and entrance to serve the development and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560056

• 20 Dec 2024N/a

  construction of a detached two storey apartment block with single storey rear element for use as 3No. apartments (2 No. two bedroom apartments and 1 No. one bedroom apartment ), parking, open space, bin and bike spaces and entrance to serve the development and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460818

• 19 Feb 2024Conditional

  upgraded waste-water treatment system to current EPA standards to serve existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2479

• 25 Jan 2024Conditional

  the construction of a two storey dwelling, garage, new residential entrance, landscaping and associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460026

• 4 Apr 2023Conditional

  planning permission sought for 2 storey dwelling, domestic garage, connection to public sewer and water and ancillary works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23335

• 20 Dec 2021Conditional

  for a new side extension to existing dwelling, modifications to existing internal layout, new Velux windows to rear of dwelling, external porch to be turned into a liveable area within the dwelling, blocking up existing door and window and associate works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211528

• 25 May 2021Conditional

  alterations to previously approved development, planning file ref. 18/1352. The alterations consist of: (a) replacing 15 no. detached dwellings consisting of 9 no. dormer style dwellings and 6 no. single storey dwellings with 16 no. detached dwellings consisting of 11 no. 2 storey dwellings and 5 no. single storey dwellings (b) minor alterations to previously granted road layout and boundary details and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 16 homes · Wicklow County Council, 21611

• 11 Sept 2020Conditional

  4 bedroom detached bungalow & associated site services with entrance / access onto the L4301 local road

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20895

• 24 Apr 2020Conditional

  19.5 sqm extension to the rear of the previously approved dwelling and exclusion of stove flue

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 20384

• 11 Oct 2019Conditional

  change of use of existing shop and dwelling building to provide for a revised village shop, café, offices, canteen, community room and a one bedroom apartment, for an outside sitting and dining area located to the front and side of the proposed shop and café, timber pergola and proposed garden works, new building façade detailing and signage, independent advertising sign located in the front garden, electric vehicle charging bays, bicycle parking bays, extension to the rear of the existing building, alterations to the building that include 2 roof windows positioned on the side and 1 on the rear roof, external door and revised glazing positioned on the south west elevation, outdoor gym located to the rear

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 191114

• 4 Dec 2018Conditional

  20 dwellings all together with associated site works, site boundary treatments, landscaping incorporating connection to Hillview by road and connection into the existing mains water, surface water and foul water system in the estate

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 181352

• 7 Feb 2018Conditional

  amendment to the scope of the works granted Planning Permission under Reg Reference 17/1006 to provide for the demolition and reconstruction of the original school classroom building rather than the refurbishment of this building as envisaged under the original submission

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18119

• 6 Oct 2017Conditional

  erection, for 18 month period, of a 84 sqm single storey two classroom prefabricated building on the western side of St Marys RC Church together with classroom and resource room use also for a 18 month period at the upper level of the Parish hall on this site. This temporary development is required to facilitate the reconstruction and extension. St Mary's RC Church is a Protected Structure

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 171214

• 22 Aug 2017N/a

  erection, for a 12 month period, of a 84 sqm single storey two classroom prefabricated building on the western side of St Mary's RC Church together with classroom and resource room use also for a 12 month period at the upper level of the Parish Hall on the site. The temporary development is required to facilitate the reconstruction and extension of Scoil Naisiunta Mhuire. St Marys RC is a protected structure

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 171005

• 22 Aug 2017Conditional

  demolish the 1950s flat roofed toilet and corridor area, the school shelter and all prefabricated buildings in order to construct a new single storey extension consisting of two 80 sqm classrooms, a reception office, and accessible toilet and other ancillary accommodation on the north eastern side parallel to Church Street. The works will include alterations to the side boundary wall in order to form a new pedestrian entrance from Church Street. The original single storey classroom building is to be retained and refurbished. The existing vehicular entrance from Dublin Street will be adapted to facilitate on site staff car parking and an accessible car parking space

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 171006

• 6 Apr 2017Conditional

  relocation of existing site entrance

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17374

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Stratford.

Architectural heritage

• Stratford National School, school, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey over raised basement national school, built c.1850, now disused. The front door appears to be bricked up. There is a second door to the gable; it is a replacement metal double door and it is set within a segmental-arched opening. Window openings are flat-headed and only some remnants of timber frames remain. The roof is pitched. The national school faces at right angles to the road. The gable is slightly set back behind a small well kept lawn.

• House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1840. The house is finished in render. The panelled timber front door has a fanlight with ‘Y’ tracery over and is set within a semi-circular arched opening; this is dressed with a Gibbsian surround. The window openings are flat-headed with six over six timber sash frames to ground floor and three over six to first floor. The hipped roof is finished with natural slate and has cast-iron rainwater goods. The house is road fronted.

• House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1840. The house is finished in render. The panelled timber front door has a fanlight with ‘Y’ tracery over and is set within a semi-circular arched opening; this is dressed with a Gibbsian surround. The window openings are flat-headed with six over six timber sash frames to ground floor and three over six to first floor. The pitched roof is double piled and is finished with natural slate and has cast-iron rainwater goods. The house is road fronted. The remnants of a communal water pump sits on the pavement directly in front of the building.

• Gates/railings/walls, 1910–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Granite wall, built c.1920. The wall is approximately 1.8M high and has a curved copestone. Gate pillars are square; one is reconstructed in block work and the other is rendered. Each has a cushion copestone and a decorative bronze globe finial. The replacement gate is plain metal. The wall encloses a farmyard.

• Church of Saint John the Baptist, church/chapel, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey Church of Ireland church, built c.1860, in Romanesque style. The building is finished in render with granite block and start window dressings and quoins. The church is single cell with a small vestry projection to the south-west. The double front door is sheeted and has decorative strap hinges with a sheeted fanlight over; this is set within a semi-circular arched opening. The north-west front is surmounted with a small granite bellcote. Window openings are semi-circular headed with replacement multiple pane timber windows. The pitched roof is finished with natural slate with serrated clay ridge tiles and has uPVC rainwater goods. It sits at the south-east side of Church Street and is set within a small graveyard.

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 Stratford, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2766 (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 Stratford with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Stratford · Áth na Sráide

Area

1,378,211 m² (137.82 ha, 340.56 acres)

Civil parish

Rathbran, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Stratford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

463 people lived in 175 households in the Stratford electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinacrow Upper, Ballintruer More, Ballyhook Hill, Ballynatone, Gibraltar, Manger, Saundersgrove Hill, Winetavern

Placenames

Stratford 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.