Mountlusk
Mountlusk is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Rathdrum Ra), barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is An Baile Loiscthe.
Parcel 1289425
- Area
- 17,419 m² (1.74 ha, 4.3 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 275 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
- Mountlusk
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 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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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
- 42.1 ha
- 104 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 3,701 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountlusk, from 1,923 m² to 385,602 m² (38.56 ha, 95.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Mountlusk 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
9 Dec 2025Conditional
reclamation of land through the filling of material comprising clay, silt, sand, gravel or stone on a site having an area of 11.24 hectares, for the purpose of improvement of land for agricultural use, with the retention and use of existing site access road and wheel wash, all constructed by reference to PRR 18/74 together with temporary haul road and other ancillary site works including portable office/chemical toilet. The proposed development relates to an activity which requires a waste licence
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560996
20 Nov 2025N/a
reclamation of land through the filling of material comprising clay, silt, sand, gravel or stone on a site having an area of 11.24 hectares, for the purpose of improvement of land for agricultural use, together with the retention and use of existing site access road and wheel wash, all constructed by reference to PRR 18/74 together with temporary haul road and other ancillary site works. The proposed development relates to an activity which requires a waste licence
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560949
24 Oct 2023Unconditional
reclamation of land through the filling of material for the purpose of improvement of land, together with site access and ancillary works granted under PRR No. 18/74
Extension of duration · Wicklow County Council, 23801
27 Apr 2023Refused
Construction of a livestock underpass with effluent holding tank and all associated siteworks
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360017
18 Feb 2021Conditional
the demolition of existing shed and construction of a two-storey extension to the side of the existing cottage and to upgrade the effluent treatment system to current EPA standards and all ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21149
30 Aug 2018Conditional
continuation of use of quarrying activity including extraction and processing of rock by drilling, blasting, crushing, screening and washing over a 35 hectare area; Erection of a fixed crushing, screening and washing plant; Landscaping of the quarry during the operational phase and restoration of the quarry on completion of the extraction; All associated ancillary facilities/works; The applicant is seeking a 25 year permission as part of the application. The application is accompanied by and Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR)
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18972
24 Jul 2018N/a
continuation of use of quarrying activity including extraction and processing of rock by drilling, blasting, crushing, screening and washing over a 35 hectare area; Erection of a fixed crushing, screening and washing plant; Landscaping of the quarry during the operational phase and restoration of the quarry on completion of the extraction; All associated ancillary facilities/works; The applicant is seeking a 25 year permission as part of the application. The application is accompanied by and Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR)
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18842
31 Jan 2018Conditional
reclamation of land through the filling of material comprising clay, silt, sand, gravel or stone on a site having an area of 14.38 hectares, for the purpose of improvement of land, together with site access and roadway and other ancillary site works. The proposed development relates to an activity which requires a waste licence
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 1874
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 Mountlusk.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mountlusk.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mountlusk.
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 Mountlusk, 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mountlusk.
- 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 Mountlusk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Mountlusk · An Baile Loiscthe
- Area
- 421,269 m² (42.13 ha, 104.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcommon (Rathdrum Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Rathdrum, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 3,173 people lived in 1,108 households in the Rathdrum electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balleese Lower, Balleese Upper, Balleese Wood, Ballindoyle, Newbawn, Timullin
- Placenames
- Mountlusk 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.