Newcastle Upper

102 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newcastle Upper, from 33 m² to 305,222 m² (30.52 ha, 75.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Newcastle 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.

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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 Newcastle Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WI019-003 Burial mound
  Description

  Situated on a low rise overlooking a marked SE-facing slope. Circular mound (diam. c. 54m; H 1.8m) which when excavated in 1872, produced a rectangular cist (L 1.07m; Wth 0.61m) containing a cremation and a small bronze razor. (MacEniry 1887-8, 163; Price 1934, 54; Waddell 1990, 166) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008

• WI019-004 Burial
  Description

  Situated on a marked E-facing slope to the E of the summit of a low ridge in the corner of a field. Human skeletons are reputed to have been found in a sandpit on the E side of the ridge (extending N-S). Not visible at ground level. (O'Flanagan 1928, 74) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008

• WI019-037 Water mill - horizontal-wheeled
  Description

  Situated at the foot of a slope in a V-shaped stream valley. The remains of a horizontal mill, recently discovered during drainage operations. It consists of a rectangular pool, lined with wooden planks, with posts which originally supported the wheel-house. The pool was fed by a leat via a wooden 'flume' or chute, which was preserved, and a second leat brought the water back to the nearby stream. The horizontally mounted mill paddles, one of which was preserved, were turned in the stream of water. A sample of wood gave a dendrochronological date of AD 744 +/-9 (Palaeoecology Centre, QUB). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008

Architectural heritage

• Newcastle House, house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement Regency style house, built c.1810, with late 20th-century porch and conservatory additions. The building is roughly square in plan with two relatively shallow full-height curved bays to front. The façade is finished in painted roughcast, whilst the relatively low-pitched slated hipped roof has a pronounced overhang supported on plain brackets, and rendered chimneystacks. The entrance is covered by a largely glazed, conservatory-like, gable-ended porch. The windows are flat-headed and have six over six and three over three timber sash frames and painted stone sills. To the west elevation, and positioned over the basement light well, there is a hipped roof conservatory. uPVC rainwater goods. Large stable block to the north-west part of which is now converted to a dwelling.

• Newcastle Lodge, house, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1780. The façade is finished in painted roughcast, with slate cladding to part of the south elevation and plain painted render to a small lean-to section to the rear. The hipped roof is slated and has rendered chimneystacks. The entrance consists of a panelled timber door and semi-circular fanlight with ‘petal’ tracery. The windows are flat-headed with most filled with timber sash frames, six over six and three over three, with c.1980s replacement timber frames to some windows to the south and rear elevations. uPVC rainwater goods. Outbuildings to west.

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 Newcastle Upper, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3385 (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.

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

Name

Newcastle Upper · An Caisleán Nua Uachtarach

Area

1,738,091 m² (173.81 ha, 429.49 acres)

Civil parish

Lower Newcastle, and its townlands

Barony

Newcastle

Electoral division

Newcastle Lower, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,472 people lived in 797 households in the Newcastle Lower electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyvolan Lower, Ballyvolan Upper, Killadreenan, Kilmullin, Newcastle Middle, Slate, Tiglin, Timmore

Placenames

Newcastle 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.