Knockanrahan Upper

981 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockanrahan Upper, from 0 m² to 60,194 m² (6.02 ha, 14.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 69 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.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 936 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential - R28 (New/proposed residential)
  Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 43 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 41 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M3Local Shops & Services (District, neighbourhood centre)
  Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Passive Open Space (Open space, park)
  Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M5Mixed Use (Other mix of uses)
  Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community & Education (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Active Open Space (Active open space)
  Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C5Tourism (Tourism and related)
  Arklow and Environs Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

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Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockanrahan Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockanrahan Upper.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Gabriel's Cemetery, building misc, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey Classical style gate lodge, built c.1870. The building is constructed in dressed coursed granite. The panelled front door is set within a flat-headed opening with a fine raised stone surround; this is set within a projecting bay which has fine pilasters to each corner with a dentilled frieze over and all surmounted by a slightly projecting pediment with a laurel wreath motif. Window openings are all flat-headed with metal top-hung replacement windows. Main gables are as per that of the projecting bay. The pitched roof is slated and rainwater goods are cast-iron; the chimneystack is rendered with granite corbelled cap and clay chimney pots. The lodge is sited by the curved gate screen with wrought-iron gates and square panelled gate pillars with pyramidal caps.

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 Knockanrahan 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3328 (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 Knockanrahan Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Knockanrahan Upper · Cnoc an Raithin Uachtarach

Area

759,378 m² (75.94 ha, 187.65 acres)

Civil parish

Arklow, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Arklow No. 1 Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

10,367 people lived in 3,895 households in the Arklow No. 1 Urban electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintombay, Ballynattin, Ballyrooaun, Knockanrahan Lower, Lamberton, Money Little, Sheephouse, Tinahask Upper

Placenames

Knockanrahan 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.