Donard Upper

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Donard Upper, from 2 m² to 116,316 m² (11.63 ha, 28.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.

• M2Primary Development Area (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Donard Town Plan, Wicklow · 21 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R3Secondary Development Area (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
  Donard Town Plan, Wicklow · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 19 Dec 2025Conditional

  extension & renovation to existing dwelling to include; 1) demolition of existing roof and chimneys with new roof structure and finish, 2) erection of single storey flat roof extension to the front of the existing dwelling, 3) erection of single storey flat roof porch extension to the rear of the existing dwelling, 4) external insulation to the existing dwelling, 5) alterations to existing front, rear & side elevations, 6) relocation of existing site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2561042

• 4 Sept 2025Conditional

  change of house type on site Nos. 1 – 8 inclusive in previously granted residential development (Ref. 21/730) comprising of 2 No. 3-bedroom detached dormer dwellings & 6 No. 3 bedroom semi-detached dormer dwellings in lieu of 2 No. 2-bedroom bungalows & 6 No. 2-bedroom semi-detached bungalows. All ancillary site development works including estate road, vehicular entrance, services infrastructure, landscaped public open spaces & boundary treatment will be as previously granted permission under Ref. 21/730

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560697

• 31 Jul 2025N/a

  proposed change of house type on Site Nos. 1 – 8 inclusive in previously granted residential development (Ref. 21/730) comprising of 2 No. 3-bedroom detached dormer dwellings & 6 No. 3 bedroom semi-detached dormer dwellings in lieu of 2 No. 2-bedroom bungalows & 6 No. 2-bedroom semi-detached bungalows. All ancillary site development works including estate road, vehicular entrance, services infrastructure, landscaped public open spaces & boundary treatment will be as previously granted permission under Ref. 21/730

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560585

• 22 Jun 2021Conditional

  proposed residential development (8 dwellings) comprising of 2 no. 2 bedroom detached bungalows & 6 no. 2-bedroom semi-detached bungalows & ancillary site development works including estate road, vehicular entrance, services infrastructure, landscaped public open spaces & boundary treatment

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21730

• 27 May 2021Conditional

  internal alterations and change of use from commercial to residential , to provide for a 2 bedroom dwelling house

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21624

• 20 Feb 2020Conditional

  four detached dwellings with connection to services, roads, footpaths, public lighting, open space and landscaping, boundaries and boundary treatments, entrances and associated works

  Permission, 4 homes · Wicklow County Council, 20166

• 6 Aug 2019N/a

  four detached dwellings with connection to services, road, footpaths, public lighting, open space and landscaping, boundaries and boundary treatments, entrances and associated works

  Permission, 4 homes · Wicklow County Council, 19856

• 22 May 2018N/a

  development of seven detached dwellings with connection to services, road, footpaths, public lighting, open space and landscaping, boundary treatments, entrance and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18547

• 29 Mar 2018Conditional

  497 sqm cattle shed with slatted tanks and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18325

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 Donard Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WI021-004 Ogham stone (present location)
  Description

  Recorded as 'just near' another (uninscribed) stone (WI021-082----) 'on the farm called Old Mills, south of the village of Donard' (Macalister 1945, 52, no. 48; Corlett and Weaver 2002, 541), this ogham stone was moved to its present location in 1995, having been placed for a time at an interim location north of Donard (marked 'Ogham Stone' on the OS 6-inch map (WI021-083----)). It is a rectangular block of stone (dims. 1.52m x 0.68m x 0.53m). Macalister (1897, 77) describes the inscription as 'much worn and damaged. . . After it turns on to the top [after the I of KOI] nothing definite can be stated'. He read the inscription as IAQINI KOI MAQI MUC ... .' (Grogan and Kilfeather 1997, no. 1007) This stone has been studied as part of the ‘Ogham in 3D’ project undertaken by the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. To access details go to the following website: https://ogham.celt.dias.ie/search.php?ciic=48 Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 3 September 2016 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 118/1940).

Architectural heritage

• House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey house, built c.1840. The façade is finished in painted roughcast whilst the gable-ended pitched roof is covered in artificial slate and has rendered chimneystacks. The entrance consists of a timber and glazed replacement door and the flat-headed windows have one over one timber sash frames. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The house faces onto a street but is separated from it by a small garden enclosed by a low rendered wall.

• House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c.1840. The façade is finished in painted render whilst the pitched roof is covered in artificial slate and has rendered chimneystacks. The entrance consists of a timber door and the flat-headed windows have one over one and two over two timber sash frames. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The house faces onto a street but is separated from it by a small garden enclosed by a low rendered wall.

• Handball alley, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding reinforced concrete handball alley, built c.1930. The walls are part painted part ivy-covered and part roughcast finished, with the tall wall to the west, sloping walls to north and to south, and the short wall to the east. There is a low open doorway to the north wall. The structure is set on the side of a street.

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 Donard 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Name

Donard Upper · Dún Ard Uachtarach

Area

410,708 m² (41.07 ha, 101.49 acres)

Civil parish

Donard, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Lower

Electoral division

Donard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

586 people lived in 206 households in the Donard electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Donard Demesne East, Donard Demesne West, Donard Lower, Donard Mountain, Drumreagh, Knockandarragh

Placenames

Donard 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.