Tinnehinch
Townland in the civil parish of Powerscourt, barony of Rathdown, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Tigh na hInse
- Area
- 27.3 ha
- 68 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 10,745 m² (1.07 ha, 2.66 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tinnehinch, from 1,164 m² to 124,797 m² (12.48 ha, 30.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Tinnehinch 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
3 Jun 2026Conditional
modification to previously approved planning permission (Ref.23/645) for a ground and first floor extension to an existing dwelling as follows: at first floor level the previously granted demolition and extension were not carried out, at ground floor level, the extension has been constructed in accordance with the permitted footprint, with revisions to the fenestration design and a reduces roof height and all associated site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 26102
26 May 2026N/a
modification of previously approved planning permission (Ref.23/645) for a ground and first floor extension to an existing dwelling as follows: at first floor level the previously granted demolition and extension were not carried out, at ground floor level, the extension has been constructed in accordance with the permitted footprint, with revisions to the fenestration design and a reduces roof height and all associated site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2698
9 Aug 2019Conditional
27 no detached dwellings (1 no single storey 2 bed houses (c102 sqm), 3 no single storey 3 bed houses (118 sqm), 7 no two storey 3 bed houses (c144-175 sqm) 11 no two storey 4 bed houses (c214-267 sqm) and 5 no 2 storey 5 bed houses (c321sqm) all with on curtilage car parking spaces, a public park (c10,351 sqm) and all ancillary and associated site development, landscaping, drainage and boundary works, including new vehicular access from regional road R760
Permission, 27 homes · Wicklow County Council, 19871
12 Jul 2019N/a
27 no detached dwellings (1 no single storey 2 bed house (c 102 sqm), 3 no single storey 3 bed houses (c 118 sqm), 7 no two storey 3 bed houses (144 - 175 sqm), 11 no two storey 4 bed houses (c214 - 267 sqm) and 5 no two storey 5 bed houses (c321 sqm) all with on curtilage car parking spaces), a public park (c 10,351 sqm) and all ancillary and associated site development, landscaping, drainage and boundary works, including new vehicular access from R760
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19752
4 Mar 2019Refused
dwelling house with onsite wastewater treatment plant with percolation area, bored well, driveway, landscaping and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19226
26 Feb 2019N/a
dwelling house with onsite wastewater treatment plant with percolation area, bored well, driveway, landscaping and ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 19202
2 Nov 2017Conditional
alterations and extensions to previously approved application described as 'refurbishment / restoration and conversion of existing outhouses (Plan Reg Ref 97/6043) including 1. Retention of salvaged vehicular entrance gates, piers and bollards, 2. Retention of single storey bedroom extension to rear of single storey Gate Lodge Building 3. Retention of alterations & two storey extensions to north and south east of two storey swimming pool building and the enlargement of external pool terraces and conversion of the original undercroft for single storey plant and equipment rooms 4. Retention of previously approved single storey play room as a pitting shed and retention of single glass house extension to the south west gable 5. Reinstatment of previously approved single storey stables building as guest accommodation with location moved 2.5m to south east 6. Reinstatement of previously approved single storey staff accommodation as stables building and retention of single storey tack room and feed store extensions to north and south west gables 7. Retention of previously approved single storey garage as a single storey vehicular / tractor shed and the retention of substitute single storey garage with mezzanine store and all associated site works (protected structure)
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 171320
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Powerscourt Woodland 001768
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tinnehinch.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tinnehinch.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3317 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Tinnehinch with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Tinnehinch · Tigh na hInse
- Area
- 273,203 m² (27.32 ha, 67.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Powerscourt, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathdown
- Electoral division
- Powerscourt, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Powerscourt electoral division: 889 people in 283 households; 86% of households own their home; 18% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyorney, Charleville Demesne, Cookstown, Newtown, Powerscourt Demesne, Stilebawn
- Placenames
- Tinnehinch 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.