Tombreen

94 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tombreen, from 129 m² to 316,660 m² (31.67 ha, 78.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Tombreen 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.

• 5 Jun 2026N/a

  1) permission for demolition of existing extensions to original cottage with alterations to existing floor layouts and external elevations and 2) permission for construction of new extension to the side of the original cottage and a new front porch and 3) permission for upgrade of existing sewerage facilities with all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660500

• 3 Dec 2025Refused

  change of the existing single-storey house into a dormer-style dwelling, including the construction of a first-floor dormer extension and alterations to the existing house, addition of 15.87m² ground floor office room and 5.06m² front porch, the installation of a new wastewater treatment system in compliance with current regulations, the removal of the existing septic tank, and associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560983

• 8 Nov 2025N/a

  permission to change existing single storey house into dormer style dwelling including the construction of a first floor dormer extension & alterations to the existing house, addition of 15.87sqm ground floor office room & 5.06sqm front porch, installation of new wastewater treatment system in compliance with current regulations, removal of existing septic tank & associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560905

• 29 Oct 2025N/a

  change of the existing single-storey house into a dormer-style dwelling, including the construction of a first-floor dormer extension and alterations to the existing house, addition of 15.87m² ground floor office room and 5.06m² front porch, the installation of a new wastewater treatment system in compliance with current regulations, the removal of the existing septic tank, and associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560866

• 7 Oct 2025N/a

  permission to reconstruct an existing derelict dwelling, transforming it from a single-storey house into a dormer bungalow, proposed demolition of existing roof and construction of dormer, reconstructed dwelling will include one master bedroom, two single bedrooms, two bathrooms, and an office space. Existing septic tank will be upgraded to wastewater treatment system

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560794

• 18 Mar 2025Conditional

  existing hay and part livestock shed and permission to construct a slatted cattle shed and all associated site works in our farmyard

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2563

• 14 Jul 2021Conditional

  construct extension to the side of my existing dwelling house, upgrade of existing on-site sewerage facilities and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21838

• 5 Feb 2021Conditional

  dwelling house with services, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21102

• 22 Jul 2019Conditional

  single storey bungalow, detached domestic garage, a wastewater treatment system, fully serviced and new site entrance together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19788

• 1 Apr 2019Conditional

  first floor extension constructed over existing sitting room to rear of dwelling. RETENTION of change of type of on site wastewater treatment unit from that previously granted under Planning Reg No 12/6855 and RETENTION of existing domestic garage to finished floor level and PERMISSION for completion of same and all associated site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 19340

• 30 Apr 2018Conditional

  dwelling house with services, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18456

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tombreen.

Recorded monuments

• WI047-010 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a gentle N/NE-facing slope. Shown as a D-shaped field on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, and as a circular area on the 1907 edition (max. dims. 50m NE-SW; 40m NW-SE). Not visible at ground level. 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

• WI047-020 Church
  Description

  Grattan (1915, 80) noted an ancient cemetery in Tombrian (i.e. Tombreen) which was known locally as Aughteduff. This very overgrown and almost impenetrable area on a S facing slope, on a slight terrace above a small stream, is still referred to as an old church site and now known as 'Augherteeduck' (pers. comm. C. Corlett). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 22 February 2013

• WI047-026 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 40m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Simon Dowling Date of upload: 26 November 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tombreen.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Tombreen.

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.

No address of the register names Tombreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Tombreen

Area

4,798,559 m² (479.86 ha, 1,185.75 acres)

Civil parish

Carnew, and its townlands

Barony

Shillelagh

Electoral division

Carnew, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carnew electoral division: 1,873 people in 708 households; 63% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballingate, Ballingate Lower, Ballynancoran (Co. Wexford), Cronyhorn Lower, Dunishal (Co. Wexford), Umrygar

Placenames

Tombreen 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.