Toolestown
Toolestown is a townland in the civil parish of Freynestown, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Thuathail.
- Area
- 86.5 ha
- 214 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 3,451 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toolestown, from 296 m² to 219,465 m² (21.95 ha, 54.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Toolestown 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
28 May 2021Refused
increase to her preschool facility of 16 children to 22 children on a sessional basis together with all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21640
13 Jul 2018Conditional
timber chalet for use as a sessional childcare facility to accommodate 16 no children with an outside play area along with upgrading existing septic tank to a oakstown treatment plant and a soil polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18800
6 Mar 2018Refused
timber chalet for use as sessional childcare facility to accommodate 16 no. children along with outside play area and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18213
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 Toolestown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Toolestown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Toolestown.
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
- The EPA radon map did not answer.
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Toolestown.
- 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 Toolestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Toolestown · Baile Uí Thuathail
- Area
- 865,482 m² (86.55 ha, 213.87 acres)
- Civil parish
- Freynestown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Upper
- Electoral division
- Rathsallagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 291 people lived in 97 households in the Rathsallagh electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Byrneshill, Coonanstown, Freynestownhill, Moanvawn, Mullans, Rottenhill
- Placenames
- Toolestown 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.