Toor

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toor, from 74 m² to 1,318,612 m² (131.86 ha, 325.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Toor 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.

• 10 Jul 2025Conditional

  Re-sagging (“re-tensioning”) of the existing conductor along an approximate distance of 16km of the Maynooth - Turlough Hill 220 kV overhead line (OHL) circuit within County Wicklow; and re-sagging of approximately 1.5km of the existing conductor along the Dunstown - Turlough Hill 220 kV OHL circuit within County Wicklow; A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared to accompany this planning application

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560525

• 26 Jun 2025N/a

  Re-sagging (“re-tensioning”) of the existing conductor along an approximate distance of 16km of the Maynooth - Turlough Hill 220 kV overhead line (OHL) circuit within County Wicklow; and re-sagging of approximately 1.5km of the existing conductor along the Dunstown - Turlough Hill 220 kV OHL circuit within County Wicklow; A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared to accompany this planning application

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560469

• 11 May 2021Conditional

  change of house type to that previously granted under planning ref 20/862 and a revised garage location and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21542

• 29 Apr 2021N/a

  change of house type to that previously granted under planning ref 20/862 and a revised garage location and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21487

• 1 Sept 2020Conditional

  single storey dwelling and double garage with onsite treatment plant and percolation area along with a new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20862

• 24 Jul 2020Conditional

  bungalow, garage, on-site treatment unit and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20707

• 28 Nov 2017Conditional

  single storey dwelling and double garage with a Oakstown treatment plant with soil polishing filter and a bored well along with a new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 171415

• 28 Mar 2017N/a

  single storey dwelling and double garage with a Oakstown treatment plant with soil polishing filter and a bored well along with a new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17326

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 Toor.

Recorded monuments

• WI015-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a marked N/NW-facing slope on the S edge of a narrow steep-sided valley. Bivallate oval ringfort (dims. 34.3m E-W; 23m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.5-2m; H 0.3m at S - 2.5m at N) with an external fosse (Wth 2-3m), and an outer bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.8m) at the N. A revetment of low boulders survives in places along the inside edge of the inner bank and the outside face of the outer bank. There is an entrance (Wth 1.7m) in the inner bank at the N and the bank terminals are revetted with small boulders. No indication of internal features. 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

• WI015-086 Standing stone
  Description

  On a relatively gentle E-facing slope of reclaimed land. A granite stone (H 1.05m; Wth 0.67m; T 0.55m) with an E-W long axis. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 10 January 2013

• WI015-091 Enclosure
  Description

  On a SW-facing valley slope, above a small stream which is a tributary of the Toor Brook. A D-shaped area (37m NE-SW; 39m SE-NW) enclosed by a large earth and stone bank (Wth 3.7m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.1m) with traces of internal stone facing at N and external stone facing at W. The bank has been denuded along the N and S sides. A grove of conifers occupies the E quadrant of the interior with an L-shaped structure (4.7m NW-SE; 4.3m NE-SW) built up againt the inner face of the enclosing bank at SE. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 10 January 2013

• WI016-020001 Stone circle
  Description

  On relatively level ground with a thin cover of blanket bog. Three standing stones comprising of a single stone opposing a pair. The single stone (max. H 0.9m; Wth 1.4m; T 0.25m) has a rough v-shaped profile at top and an E-W long axis. The opposing pair of stones are 2.1m NNE of the single stone and are 1.25m apart. Stone 'A' of the pair (max. H 1.05m; Wth 1m; T 40cm) has a , long axis roughly NW-SE. Stone 'B' (max. H 1m; Wth 0.8m; T 0.25m) has an E-W long axis. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 15 January 2013

• WI016-020002 Enclosure
  Description

  This record was created for an 'enclosure' based on fieldwork evidence (C. Corlett). No further descriptive information is available at present. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 15 January 2013

• WI016-020003 Stone circle
  Description

  This record was created for a 'stone circle' based on fieldwork evidence (C. Corlett). No further descriptive information is available at present. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 15 January 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Toor, 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 high, 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 Toor.

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.

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

Name

Toor · Tuar Mhóin na bhFiach

Area

4,071,928 m² (407.19 ha, 1,006.2 acres)

Civil parish

Hollywood, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Lower

Electoral division

Hollywood, the unit of the census

Census 2022

820 people lived in 271 households in the Hollywood electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymooney, Drumreagh, Kilcoagh East, Knocknaboley, Lugglass Upper, Scalp, Slievecorragh, Woodenboley

Placenames

Toor 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.