Tomcoyle
Townland in the civil parish of Preban, barony of Ballinacor South, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Tom Coill
- Area
- 196.6 ha
- 486 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 5,101 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tomcoyle, from 216 m² to 843,129 m² (84.31 ha, 208.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Tomcoyle 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
12 Jun 2026N/a
section 42 - extension of appropriate period - 21/242, erect a fully serviced dwelling house, domestic garage/store, private bored well, on-site wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 26112
15 Dec 2022Conditional
dwellinghouse with services, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221374
21 Nov 2022Conditional
demolish existing shed and construct a dwelling and garage and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221227
26 Jul 2021Conditional
new dwelling, garage, new entrance, wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter, new well and associate works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21916
9 Mar 2021Conditional
erect a fully serviced dwelling house, domestic garage/store, private bored well, on-site wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21242
17 Aug 2018Conditional
single storey infill extension to side of existing dwelling together with permission for the conversion of existing store to habitable space which will link to the proposed new extension, permission for some minor elevational alterations to existing dwelling and store, together with the upgrade of existing effluent disposal system to current EPA standards and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18939
31 Jul 2018N/a
single storey infill extension to side of existing dwelling together with permission for the conversion of existing store to habitable space which will link to the proposed new extension, permission for some minor elevational alterations to existing dwelling and store, together with the upgrade of existing effluent disposal system to current EPA standards and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18874
17 Jul 2018N/a
single storey infill extension to side of existing dwelling together with permission for the conversion of existing store to habitable space which will link to the proposed new extension, permission for some minor elevational alterations to existing dwelling and store, together with the upgrade of existing effluent disposal system to current EPA standards and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18818
22 Feb 2017Conditional
front bay extension to dwelling and associated works
Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17194
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 Tomcoyle.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tomcoyle.
Architectural heritage
- Saint John's Church (Preban), church/chapel, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey Church of Ireland church, built 1827. The building is finished in render and sits on a shallow splayed base. The square, two-stage tower is set to the centre of the east elevation and has flat roofed porches at either side; all have castellated parapets. The pitched roof of the nave is slated. The timber door has decorative strap hinges and a plain fanlight and is set within a Tudor-arched opening with drip moulding above. Windows are pointed-arched and have "Y" tracery. There are no windows to the north side of the nave. The church is set within a small graveyard and is slightly set back behind a rendered wall with a wrought-iron gate.
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 Tomcoyle.
- 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 Tomcoyle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Tomcoyle · Tom Coill
- Area
- 1,966,046 m² (196.6 ha, 485.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Preban, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor South
- Electoral division
- Kilballyowen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilballyowen electoral division: 405 people in 137 households; 90% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinglen, Kilballyowen, Mucklagh, Preban, Tomnaskela
- Placenames
- Tomcoyle 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.