Valleymount or Cross

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Valleymount or Cross, from 28 m² to 79,656 m² (7.97 ha, 19.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 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 Valleymount or Cross 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 Jul 2026Conditional

  storey & a half type dwelling, on-site effluent disposal system to current EPA guidelines, detached domestic garage, with access via recessed entrance previously granted under PPRR 25/60419 and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2660619

• 6 Jun 2025Conditional

  Planning permission for dormer type dwelling, on-site effluent disposal system to current EPA guidelines, domestic outbuilding, recessed entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2560419

• 2 May 2023Conditional

  change of use applies to the ground floor front room and associated stores which were formerly a shop and post office and will change to residential use; the extension is for a single storey kitchen and dining room all to the rear; the alterations include; the addition of a flat roof dormer and rooflight to the existing rear lean-to at first floor level to provide a bedroom with adequate head-room; replacement of non-original front doors and windows (the historic sash windows will be repaired); repair and alteration of the existing single-storey flat-roofed store at the side; internal alterations and repair of the protected structure; alterations of the boundary walls to improve the safety of the existing vehicle egress; the resulting house will be a part-single storey, part-two-storey four bedroom house

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23422

• 23 Dec 2020N/a

  demolish a single storey extension at rear, erect a pitched roof canopy at rear, erect a single storey extension at front of dwelling

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 201327

• 23 Mar 2017Unconditional

  greenway. Construct a new crushed stone track in order to create a walking & cycling greenway which will follow the edge of the Blessington Lakes together with the upgrading of the existing tracks commencing in the town of Blessington and following a route close to the shoreline through the townlands of Baltyboys Lower, Tulfarris, Rathballylong, Baltyboys Upper, Monamuck, Valleymount, Annacarney, Carrigacurra, Ballyknockan, Ballynastockan, Lackan, Sroughan, Carrig, Knockieran Upper, Knockieran Lower, Blessington and Burgage More and the villages of Valleymount, Ballyknockan and Lacken before returning to Blessington at Knockieran Bridge. Upgrading works will include widening of existing track and laying of geotextile with a surface layer of crushed stone surface. Construction works will involve shallow excavation, laying of geotextile with a surface layer of crushed stone surface, placement of apprx 100 culverts, 18 light bridges over larger streams, fencing and minor landscaping

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17307

• 18 Jan 2017N/a

  new crushed stone track in order to create a walking and cycling Greenway which will follow the edge of the Blessington Lakes together with upgrading of existing tracks commencing in the town of Blessington and following a route close to the shoreline through the townlands of Baltyboys Lower, Tulfarris, Rathballylong, Baltyboys Upper, Monamuck, Valleymount, Annacarney, Carrigacurra, Ballyknockan, Ballynastockan, Lackan, Sroughan and the villages of Valleymount, Ballyknockan and Lacken before returning to Blessington at Knockieran Bridge. Upgarding works will include widening of existing track and laying of geotextile with a surface layer of crushed stone surface. Construction works will involve shallow excavation, laying of geotextile with a surface layer of crushed stone surface. placement of approx 100 culverts, 18 light bridges over larger streams, fencing and minor landscaping

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 1739

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Poulaphouca Reservoir SPA 004063
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Poulaphouca Reservoir 000731

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Valleymount or Cross.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Joseph's Catholic Church, presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey parochial house, dated 1845. To the rear of the building is a small single-storey return and a small (and possibly later) single-storey lean-to. The walls are finished in painted lined render with granite quoins, whilst the hipped roof is slated and has rendered chimneystacks. The entrance consists of a panelled timber door set within a granite portico, (said to have come from Lord Downshire’s house in Blessington), with Doric columns supporting a flat roof with projecting cornice with dentils below. Above the portico is an elliptical fanlight. The windows are flat-headed and have timber sash frames, either six over six or tripartite. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The house is set within a relatively spacious garden enclosed from the roadside by a rendered wall with cast-iron carriage gates, with the church the house relates to, (St Joseph’s Roman Catholic church), situated just beyond to the south side.

• Saint Joseph's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1800–1805 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey Catholic church, dated 1803, but with distinctive pinnacled front façade and porch added c.1835. The building consists of a rectangular gabled nave with large hipped roof side aisles, a hipped roof chancel with gabled vestry extension, and a full width projecting front porch. The front façade and porch are said to have been designed either by a former priest inspired by churches he saw on a visit to Malta, or by parishioners who had visited New Mexico (present day Texas). The porch is constructed in granite with pilasters rising above the level parapet into piers topped with tall decorative pinnacles; the main façade beyond also has a level parapet, which totally obscures the gable, and is topped with a bellcote and piers with pinnacles as the porch, the latter rising from pilasters also as the porch. Between the pilasters the façade is finished in painted roughcast, as are the other walls of the building. All sections of the roof are slated with a cross finial to the east gable of the nave and a granite chimneystack to the vestry. The entrance (in something of a contrast to the rest of the front) consists of a Tudor-arched timber double door with moulded dripstone and shield-shaped panels above. The majority of the windows have pointed arch heads and are filled with stained glass windows of various dates. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The church is set back from the roadside, its forecourt enclosed from the road by a rendered wall with gateways separated by a pier surmounted by a large granite cross, the outer piers having pinnacles similar to the porch and front parapet of the church itself. Internally the church consists of a single space with side aisles separated by colonnades and the chancel set beyond a large pointed arch opening. The walls are plastered and painted and the ceiling is timber-lined with the cross brace trusses exposed. The floor is largely carpeted and the seating consists of plain c.1980s bench pews. The stained glass windows date from the 1930s with those to the side aisles by Harry Clarke and those to the chancel by Hubert McGoldrick.

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

The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Valleymount or Cross.

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Valleymount or Cross.

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 Valleymount or Cross with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Valleymount or Cross · An Chrois

Area

759,263 m² (75.93 ha, 187.62 acres)

Civil parish

Boystown, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Lower

Electoral division

Togher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

387 people lived in 129 households in the Togher electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annacarney, Ballinahown, Ballyknockan, Blackditches Lower, Boystown or Baltyboys Upper, Carrigacurra, Monamuck

Placenames

Valleymount or Cross 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.