Thomastown
Thomastown is a townland in the civil parish of Arklow, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Baile Thomáis.
- Area
- 121.8 ha
- 301 acres
- Land parcels
- 49
- registered freehold, median 1,957 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Thomastown, from 302 m² to 424,487 m² (42.45 ha, 104.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Thomastown 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
7 Mar 2024Conditional
(1) revised dwelling position, (2) revised well and septic tank position and (3) revised entrance position. Permission is sought to revise site boundaries as a change to that permitted under 014626 and all associated site and ancillary works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 24115
22 Feb 2024N/a
(1) revised dwelling position, (2) revised well and septic tank position and (3) revised entrance position. Permission is sought to revise site boundaries as a change to that permitted under 014626 and all associated site and ancillary works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2483
12 Feb 2024N/a
(1) revised dwelling position, (2) revised well and septic tank position, (3) revised entrance position and Permission to revise site boundaries as a change to that permitted under 014626 and all associated site and ancillary works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2460
12 Jun 2018Conditional
new dwelling, garage, new entrance onto proposed lane leading to existing entrance onto public road, wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18640
12 Jun 2018Conditional
new dwelling, garage, new entrance onto proposed lane leading to existing entrance onto public road, wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18641
12 Jun 2018Conditional
new dwelling, garage, new entrance onto proposed lane leading to existing entrance onto public road, wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter, new well and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18642
12 Jun 2018Conditional
new dwelling, garage, new entrance onto proposed lane leading to existing entrance onto public road, wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter, new well and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18643
22 May 2018Conditional
erect a finger post sign for Wicklow Calf Company
22 May 2018Refused
erect a finger post sign for Wicklow Calf Company
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 Thomastown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Thomastown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Thomastown.
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 Thomastown, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Thomastown.
- 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 Thomastown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Thomastown · Baile Thomáis
- Area
- 1,217,927 m² (121.79 ha, 300.96 acres)
- Civil parish
- Arklow, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Arklow Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,415 people lived in 498 households in the Arklow Rural electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygriffin, Barnacleagh East, Barnacleagh South, Coolastingan, Ecawn, Johnstown Upper, Slieveduff
- Placenames
- Thomastown 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.