Woodfield
Townland in the civil parish of Baltinglass, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Coill na Manach
- Area
- 114.7 ha
- 283 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 3,929 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Woodfield, from 659 m² to 190,391 m² (19.04 ha, 47.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Woodfield 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
27 May 2025Conditional
first floor living room as constructed ancillary to the use of the dwelling house, to retain 2 no. velux windows as constructed to the front of same, to retain single storey ground floor extension as constructed to the rear of the existing dwelling house, retention planning permission is sought to retain domestic garage / shed with ancillary fuel store as constructed to the side of the existing dwelling house, all ancillary site works and services
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560392
7 Nov 2023Conditional
to demolish portion of existing cottage, to reconstruct same and to carry out internal alterations to same, to renovate existing remaining portion including garage attached to same, full planning permission is sought to construct a single storey extension to the rear of the dwelling house, to reinstate original entrance to the front of dwelling house, to install a well, a septic tank and associated percolation area, all ancillary site works and services
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360400
13 Sept 2018Refused
vehicular entrance off the R747 and associated driveway to existing private residence, and the closure of existing entrance off shared right of way
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 181022
10 Apr 2018Conditional
garage to the side of existing dwelling house, all ancillary site works and services
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18369
9 Mar 2018Conditional
change of use, removal of Condition 2(a) as attached to PRR03/8096 from restricted use as a dwelling to use by all classes of persons and retention of 5 rooflights to the rear
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18238
6 Mar 2018N/a
Removal of Condition 2(a) as attached to PRR03/8096 and retention of 5 rooflights to the rear
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18210
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 Woodfield.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Woodfield.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Woodfield.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2769 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Woodfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Woodfield · Coill na Manach
- Area
- 1,147,021 m² (114.7 ha, 283.44 acres)
- Civil parish
- Baltinglass, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Upper
- Electoral division
- Talbotstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Talbotstown electoral division: 456 people in 154 households; 85% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Boley, Deerpark, Kilmurry Lower, Newtownsaunders, Woodfieldglen
- Placenames
- Woodfield 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.