Toorboy

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toorboy, from 60 m² to 878,025 m² (87.8 ha, 216.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Toorboy 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Toorboy in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Wicklow Mountains SAC 002122

Recorded monuments

• WI028-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gentle slope on the E edge of the steep-sided valley of the Derreen River. Oval area (dims. 30m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.6-3m; H 1-1.4m). There are gaps at the NW and SW (Wth 2m). No indication of a fosse or 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

• WI028-009 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on level ground with downhill slopes to the Derreen River to the SW. Oval enclosure (dims. 78.6m N-S; 50m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 7-10m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.6-1.3m). A curving fosse (Wth 6.4m; D 0.2m) cuts off a portion of the N sector (dims. 10m N-S; 20m E-W). Within this is an irregular pile of stones. No indication of an external fosse or entrance. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 Toorboy, 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Toorboy.

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 Toorboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Toorboy · An Tuar Buí

Area

1,897,416 m² (189.74 ha, 468.86 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltegan, and its townlands

Barony

Ballinacor South

Electoral division

Ballinguile, the unit of the census

Census 2022

153 people lived in 51 households in the Ballinguile electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinguile, Ballinguilehill, Cranareen, Drim, Lybagh, Rathgorragh Lower, Slievemaan

Placenames

Toorboy 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.