Tonlegee
Tonlegee is a townland in the civil parish of Dunganstown, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Tóin le Gaoith.
- Area
- 45.6 ha
- 113 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 4,003 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tonlegee, from 28 m² to 301,052 m² (30.11 ha, 74.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Tonlegee 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
18 Sept 2026N/a
dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 26195
20 Mar 2025Conditional
the cottage known formerly as Tophers was granted permission for retention and extension of the property as a dwelling and relocation of the entrance to a safer location and upgrading of the waste water treatment facilities by reference to planning ref 17/909. This permitted development was substantially undertaken but not fully completed. Permission is now sought for (i) Planning permission for the conversion regeneration and redevelopment of the existing cottage (ii) removal of existing poor quality single storey extensions to side and rear (iii) construction of new 1 and part 2 storey residential extension to the rear and side (iv) boundary treatment and landscaping (v) all ancillary site development works, services infrastructure and landscaping
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560195
11 Sept 2024Refused
(1) a 94.00 m2 single storey dwelling, (2) 3 No. 100 m2 Hydroponic Grow Houses (3) a waste-water treatment unit and its associated percolation area, all to EPA standards, (4) a revised site entrance and (5) all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460547
1 Dec 2023Conditional
a proposed porch at the main entrance, additional first floor level, balconies to the east & west facing elevations, new roofs, refurbishment of the existing Ground Floor, replacement wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360466
31 Aug 2018N/a
1) alterations and extensions to existing building 2) all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18975
14 Aug 2018N/a
revised layout to rear of building retention which was granted under 17/909 which consisted of the following: retention of change of use of commercial building from commercial use to residential use, retention of extensions and alterations to the commercial building and the use of such extension for residential use together with permission to relocate existing site entrance to a safer location to the east. Permission is also sought for the replacement of the existing septic tank to dwelling and upgrade of same to current EPA standards, all together with associated site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 18922
26 Jul 2017Conditional
existing residential use of dwelling (formally commercial use) together with miscellaneous alterations, together with permission to relocate existing site entrance to a safer location to the east. Permission is also sought for the replacement of the existing septic tank to dwelling and upgrade of same to current EPA standards all together with associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17909
20 Jul 2017N/a
existing residential use of dwelling (formally commercial use) together with miscellaneous alterations, together with permission to relocate existing site entrance to a safer location to the east. Permission is also sought for the replacement of existing septic tank to dwelling and upgrade of same to current EPA standards, all together with associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17885
4 Jul 2017N/a
existing residential use of dwelling (formally commercial use) together with miscellaneous alterations, together with permission to relocate existing side entrance to a safer location to the east. Permission is also sought for the replacement of the existing septic tank to dwelling and upgrade of same to current EPA standards, all together with associated site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 17808
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 Tonlegee.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tonlegee.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tonlegee.
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 Tonlegee, about 1 in 10 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 Tonlegee.
- 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 Tonlegee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Tonlegee · Tóin le Gaoith
- Area
- 455,666 m² (45.57 ha, 112.6 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dunganstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Dunganstown South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 954 people lived in 320 households in the Dunganstown South electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballysallagh East, Bellpark, Bonagrew Little, Brittas, Cornagower West
- Placenames
- Tonlegee 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.