Tober Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Tober, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Tobar Íochtarach
- Area
- 54.4 ha
- 134 acres
- Land parcels
- 44
- registered freehold, median 3,001 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tober Lower, from 26 m² to 121,719 m² (12.17 ha, 30.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Tober 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
19 Mar 2026Conditional
construct a new agricultural entrance to my agricultural lands and all ancillary site works and services
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660206
4 Dec 2025N/a
construct a new agricultural entrance to agricultural lands and all ancillary site works and services
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560986
7 Apr 2025Conditional
revised house type on previously granted site (PRR 23576 ) for house type of Sarah Darcy and all ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560253
6 Feb 2025N/a
new farm entrance; alterations to road side boundary hedge, closure of existing entrance, Permission also sought for lean-to type sheep shed and fodder storage area and all ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560062
16 Feb 2024Conditional
59.6 sq m single storey extension to 50.3 sq m farm dwelling house, new on-suite sewerage treatment system to serve dwelling house and all ancillary site works. Permission also sought for conversion of existing Dutch style hay shed to self catering agri-tourism accommodation, consisting of a two storey 3 bed room unit, and a single storey 2 bed room unit, conversion of old dairy to farm product workshop and conversion of old cattle shed to class room, 11 no. car parking spaces, new onsite sewerage treatment system to serve converted buildings. Alterations to existing entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2475
6 Oct 2023Conditional
existing farmyard entrance and ancillary works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 23751
29 Sept 2023N/a
sought to retain existing farmyard entrance and ancillary works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 23740
4 Jul 2023Conditional
construction of 2 No. dwelling houses. O'Reilly Oaktown Sewerage Treatment Systems to serve each house, domestic garages, connections to public water-main, alterations to existing entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Wicklow County Council, 23576
30 Jun 2022N/a
construct 2 no. dwelling houses, O'Reilly Oaktown Sewerage Treatment Systems to serve each house, domestic garages, connection to public water-main, alterations to existing entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22727
8 Jun 2022N/a
construct 2 no. dwelling houses, O'Reilly Oaktown Sewerage Treatment Systems to serve each house, domestic garages, connections to public water- main, alterations to existing entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22632
16 Aug 2021Conditional
construct a first floor extension to bungalow over the central section of house when viewed from the public road. The existing ground floor area is 216.01 sqm and this will remain unchanged while the new first floor extension will add 74.88sqm. Alterations to ground floor layout will include the changing of a bedroom into a utility room and the repurposing of a second bedroom to a stairwell. The proposed two new bedrooms will compensate for the loss of the ground floor bedrooms resulting in no additional loading to the approved septic tank system.
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211013
5 Mar 2020Conditional
side extension to existing single storey house and permission for side and rear extension to existing single storey house and all associated site development works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 20225
28 Feb 2020N/a
side extension to existing single storey house and permission for side and rear extension to existing single storey house and all associated site development works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 20199
27 Apr 2018Conditional
dwelling house, secondary sewerage treatment system and percolation area, domestic garage, alterations to existing entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18449
4 Sept 2017Refused
dwelling house, secondary sewerage treatment system, alterations to existing entrance, connection to existing water main and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 171071
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 Tober Lower.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tober Lower.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tober 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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tober Lower.
- 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 Tober Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Tober Lower · An Tobar Íochtarach
- Area
- 543,582 m² (54.36 ha, 134.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tober, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Lower
- Electoral division
- Tober, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tober electoral division: 495 people in 159 households; 88% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Dunlavin Lower, Dunlavin Upper, Grange Beg (Co. Kildare), Lugatryna, Tober Demesne, Tober Upper
- Placenames
- Tober 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.