Bray Upper

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bray Upper, from 18 m² to 374,584 m² (37.46 ha, 92.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Bray 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.

• 18 Aug 2026N/a

  Retention of a domestic garage / store

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2660935

• 21 May 2026Conditional

  (A) permission to remove condition 3 of planning file 99/1433 regarding sterilisation of the lands subject to this application (B) permission for a new two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treatment system with percolation area, alterations to existing vehicle entrance to provide a shared entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2665

• 2 May 2025Conditional

  for erection of a dry storage shed, along with concrete yards and ancillary works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560465

• 24 Apr 2025N/a

  for erection of a dry storage shed, along with concrete yards and ancillary works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2560426

• 17 Jan 2025Conditional

  for conservatory to side, bay window to rear, lobby to rear and side of dwelling to habitable accommodation

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 256

• 2 Dec 2024Conditional

  for retention of the existing recessed vehicular entrance and boat house structure and will consist of widening of the existing entrance; the construction of a single-storey dwelling; and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground, including a new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all ancillary site development works. Revised by Significant further Information consists of revisions to the site boundary

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2461277

• 14 Aug 2020Conditional

  the construction of a single-storey extension to the front, side and rear of a detached two-storey dwelling and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 20905

• 30 Jul 2020N/a

  the construction of a single-storey extension to the front, side and rear of a detached two-storey dwelling and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 20838

• 14 Dec 2018Conditional

  1. a concrete silage apron for temporary storage of livestock manure. 2. Effluent seepage tank. along with concrete yards and ancillary works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 181511

• 6 Nov 2017Conditional

  for alterations to permitted planning permission register reference 15/1191 to change the volume of a slurry reception tank from 20,000L to 36,000L. Revised by significant further information consisting of; an agricultural shed structure on the lands for which retention is also sought

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 171245

• 13 Sept 2017Refused

  dormer bungalow, detached double garage, septic tank and percolation area, recessed entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 171030

• 3 Feb 2017N/a

  alterations to permitted planning permission register reference 15/1191 to change the volume of a slurry reception tank from 20,000L to 36,000L

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 17104

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 Bray Upper.

Recorded monuments

• KD035-081 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB96.FZ.07) shows cropmark of a ring-ditch, forming part of a group of five ring-ditches located in close proximity. Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 07 December 2011

• KD035-083 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB96.FZ.07) shows cropmark of a ring-ditch, forming part of a group of five ring-ditches located in close proximity. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 07 December 2011

• KD035-084 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB96.FZ.07) shows cropmark of a ring-ditch, forming part of a group of five ring-ditches located in close proximity. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: -7 December 2011

• KD035-085 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB96.FZ.07) shows cropmark of a ring-ditch, forming part of a group of five ring-ditches located in close proximity. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 07 December 2011

• KD035-086 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB96.FZ.07) shows cropmark of a ring-ditch, forming part of a group of five ring-ditches located in close proximity. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 07 December 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bray 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

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_2452 (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.

No address of the register names Bray Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Bray Upper · Bré Uachtarach

Area

974,157 m² (97.42 ha, 240.72 acres)

Civil parish

St. Michael's, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Athy Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Athy Rural electoral division: 4,548 people in 1,506 households; 65% of households own their home; 66% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardree, Bray Lower, Foxhill, Gallowshill, Shanrath East

Placenames

Bray 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.