Kilmacoo Upper
Kilmacoo Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Castlemacadam, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Cill Mochua Uachtarach.
Parcel 1274464
- Area
- 2,061 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 791 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Kilmacoo Upper
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3323 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 112.4 ha
- 278 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 2,933 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmacoo Upper, from 313 m² to 178,688 m² (17.87 ha, 44.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kilmacoo 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
1 Oct 2025Conditional
for retention permission existing agriculture lane as constructed, upgraded works to existing agriculture entrance and permission for new agriculture shed, agriculture yard, upgrading existing agricultural entrance on to public road, turning a section of gravel driveway back into grassland and associate works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560772
9 Jul 2024N/a
existing agriculture lane as constructed and permission for new agriculture shed agriculture yard, upgrading existing agricultural entrance and associate works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2460408
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilmacoo Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilmacoo Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilmacoo 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Kilmacoo 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3291 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kilmacoo Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Kilmacoo Upper · Cill Mochua Uachtarach
- Area
- 1,123,763 m² (112.38 ha, 277.69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castlemacadam, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Cronebane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 533 people lived in 195 households in the Cronebane electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Connary Upper, Coolanearl, Cronebane, Kilmacoo, Knockanree Upper, Sroughmore, Tigroney East
- Placenames
- Kilmacoo 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.