Silverhill Upper

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Silverhill Upper, from 409 m² to 249,130 m² (24.91 ha, 61.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Silverhill 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.

• 27 Aug 2025Refused

  for A) retention of the demolition of a longstanding building in a ruinous condition; (B) the retention of a detached dwelling with two levels of accommodation which is in a near-completed condition but which has not yet been finished and (C) the removal of an existing septic tank; (D) the installation of a wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter (E) the completion of this new swelling, (F) the upgrading of an existing access for use in connection with this house, (G) the provision of hardstanding for a vehicular driveway and parking area, (H) landscaping and site works

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 25143

• 18 Oct 2024Refused

  to convert an existing domestic garage to family flat accommodation with proposed single storey extensions to the rear and side of same and upgrade the existing sewage treatment system to a new sewage treatment system to current EPA guidelines and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460645

• 17 Jun 2024Refused

  to convert the existing domestic garage to family flat accommodation with single storey extension to the rear of same, to upgrade the existing septic system to current EPA guidelines and for all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460343

• 8 Dec 2023N/a

  (1) Planning retention of upgraded existing old dwelling 73.0 sq.m (2) New rear 37.0 sq.m lounge and front porch (3) Raised roof to provide first floor bedrooms 46.0 sq.m (4) New septic tank and all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 231018

• 23 Nov 2022Conditional

  new one storey and a half, 4 bedroom dwelling. garage, new well, percolation area, new foul drainage and soil polishing filter system to current EPA guidelines treatment, surface water soakaways, landscaping, altered entrance and all associated site work

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 221241

• 14 Nov 2022N/a

  new one storey and a half, four bedroom dwelling, garage, new well, percolation area, new foul drainage and soil polishing filter system all to current EPA guidelines treatment, surface water soakways, landscaping, altered entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221207

• 7 Nov 2022N/a

  new one storey and a half, 4 bedroom dwelling, garage, percolation area, new foul drainage and soil polishing filter system all to current EPA guidelines treatment, surface water soakaways, landscaping, altered entrance and all associated site work

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221180

• 25 Aug 2020N/a

  convert the existing domestic garage to family flat type accommodation with small single storey extension to the rear of same and for all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20831

• 1 Oct 2018Conditional

  (a) Proposed two storey dwelling, (b) Use of existing entrance, (c) Domestic garage, (d) Treatment system and percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 181198

• 9 Oct 2017Refused

  To construct a two- storey dwelling together with detached storey and a half domestic garage, use of existing vehicular entrance, new waste-water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 171114

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 Silverhill Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Silverhill Upper.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Silverhill 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 Silverhill Upper, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Silverhill 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 Silverhill Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Silverhill Upper

Area

585,140 m² (58.51 ha, 144.59 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymore Eustace, and its townlands

Barony

Naas South

Electoral division

Ballymore Eustace, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,589 people lived in 582 households in the Ballymore Eustace electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Athgarvan (Co. Wicklow), Ballysize Lower (Co. Wicklow), Bannagroe (Co. Wicklow), Broadleas Commons, Hollywood Lower (Co. Wicklow), Silverhill Lower, Whiteleas

Placenames

Silverhill 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.