Talbotstown Lower
Talbotstown Lower is a townland in the civil parish of Kilranelagh, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Baile an Talbóidigh Íochtarach.
- Area
- 106 ha
- 262 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 5,596 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Talbotstown Lower, from 6 m² to 417,721 m² (41.77 ha, 103.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Talbotstown Lower 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
27 Apr 2021N/a
a new Passive Haus standard family house and the retention of the existing barns and workshops on the site that will form a part of the new dwelling, including an integral garage. The proposed works will include the demolition of a part of the existing barn, the retention of the existing vehicular site entrance, with modifications to provide a splayed entrance to the roadside boundary; installation of an onsite sewage treatment system and a rainwater harvesting system; new tree and hedge planting and site landscape works as indicated on the application drawings
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21475
30 Mar 2021N/a
a new passive haus standard family house that will include the retention of the existing workshops and barns on the site to form part of the new dwelling including an integral garage, works will include the demolition of part of the existing barn, retention of existing site entrance with modifications to provide a splayed entrance, installation of an on site sewage treatment system and rainwater harvesting, new tree and hedge planting and site landscape works as indicated on the application drawings
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21334
16 Apr 2019N/a
long standing single storey extension (29.3 sqm GFA) to the side and rear of an existing cottage, including a kitchen and living room area, resulting in alterations to the front and rear elevations
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 19404
14 May 2018Refused
dwelling, garage, effluent disposal system to current EPA standards, bored well, upgrade to existing entrance, together with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18511
21 Feb 2017N/a
creation of new new agricultural entrances onto a public road to move livestock
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17184
13 Feb 2017N/a
creation of two new agricultural entrances onto a public road to move livestock
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17150
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 Talbotstown Lower.
Recorded monuments
- WI027-050 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Situated on level to gently sloping ground beside the road. An unmarked spring which according to the OS Name Books was traditionally 'good for various cures'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Talbotstown Lower.
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 Talbotstown Lower, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2809 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Talbotstown Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Talbotstown Lower · Baile an Talbóidigh Íochtarach
- Area
- 1,060,480 m² (106.05 ha, 262.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilranelagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Upper
- Electoral division
- Talbotstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 456 people lived in 154 households in the Talbotstown electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinroan Lower, Barraderry North, Boleylug, Brockna, Englishtown, Talbotstown Upper
- Placenames
- Talbotstown Lower 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.