Tomnaskela
Tomnaskela is a townland in the civil parish of Kilpipe, barony of Ballinacor South, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Tom na Scéalaithe.
- Area
- 129.3 ha
- 319 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 13,191 m² (1.32 ha, 3.26 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tomnaskela, from 268 m² to 508,219 m² (50.82 ha, 125.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Tomnaskela 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
30 Jun 2023Conditional
an existing single storey extension, domestic garage and sheds ancillary to the dwelling along with retention of a gated boundary opening. Planning permission is also being sought for the replacement of the existing septic tank system with a new wastewater treatment unit along with all ancillary site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 23573
30 May 2023N/a
for an existing single storey extension, domestic garage and sheds ancillary to the dwelling along with retention of a gated boundary opening
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 23494
16 Jan 2023N/a
existing single storey extension, domestic garage and sheds ancillary to the dwelling
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2323
7 Apr 2021Conditional
dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21381
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 Tomnaskela.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tomnaskela.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tomnaskela.
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 Tomnaskela, about 1 in 5 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tomnaskela.
- 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 Tomnaskela with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Tomnaskela · Tom na Scéalaithe
- Area
- 1,292,735 m² (129.27 ha, 319.44 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilpipe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor South
- Electoral division
- Kilpipe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 452 people lived in 163 households in the Kilpipe electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballagh, Kilballyowen, Kilpipe, Mucklagh, Toberlownagh, Tomcoyle
- Placenames
- Tomnaskela 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.