Seskin Upper

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Seskin Upper, from 1,288 m² to 137,414 m² (13.74 ha, 33.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Seskin Upper 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 Sept 2026N/a

  the temporary placement of a mobile home on site for the duration of the construction of dwelling house as granted under PL Ref: 25/60033 and temporarily connect to services as granted under same, all ancillary site works at services

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660276

• 14 Feb 2025Conditional

  the construction of a single storey dwelling, bored well, tertiary treatment system & infiltration/treatment area, new entrance, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2560033

• 1 Nov 2023Conditional

  to renovate & extend existing dwelling-house, construct domestic garage, new entrance, install a wastewater treatment system, and all ancillary works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 23180

• 21 Feb 2022Conditional

  for the change of use from agricultural land to a domestic home and garden, this will include the construction of a house and garage, the development will consist of a single-storey dwelling and a single-storey garage built with a traditional cavity wall with a rendered finish and a traditional slate roof. A new entrance and driveway, the boring of a well, the installation of a septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2261

• 17 Feb 2022N/a

  for the change of use from agricultural land to a domestic home and garden, this will include the construction of a house and garage, the development will consist of a single-storey dwelling and a single-storey garage built with a traditional cavity wall with a rendered finish and a traditional slate roof. A new entrance and driveway, the boring of a well, the installation of a septic tank and percolation are and all associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2253

• 10 Sept 2021Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a two-storey detached dwelling, garage, new site entrance, private well, sewerage treatment and all other site and ancillary works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 21341

• 26 Aug 2021N/a

  Permission for construction of a two storey detached dwelling, garage, new site entrance, private well, sewerage treatment and all other site and ancillary works.

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 21320

• 12 Jun 2018Conditional

  relocation of sunroom pertaining to original Planning Application (See Planning Application details ref 09202 Carlow County Council) and ancillary services

  Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 18227

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 Seskin Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Seskin Upper.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Seskin Upper, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Seskin Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Seskin Upper · An Seisceann Uachtarach

Area

2,800,881 m² (280.09 ha, 692.11 acres)

Civil parish

Oldleighlin, and its townlands

Barony

Idrone West

Electoral division

Ridge, the unit of the census

Census 2022

298 people lived in 92 households in the Ridge electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 48% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolnakisha, Johnduffswood, Knockagarry, Ridge, Seskin Lower, Seskinrea

Placenames

Seskin Upper 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.