Aghowle Lower

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghowle Lower, from 352 m² to 330,546 m² (33.05 ha, 81.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Aghowle Lower 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.

• 11 Feb 2026Conditional

  revised house type on previously granted site under planning ref. no. 06/5235, retention of home studio/gym, retention of domestic storage sheds and associated works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2636

• 7 Jan 2026Conditional

  construction of new dwelling; garage, new vehicular & pedestrian entrances, new sewage treatment system & ancillary siteworks

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660008

• 6 Jan 2026N/a

  construction of new dwelling; garage, new vehicular & pedestrian entrances, new sewage treatment system & ancillary siteworks

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660006

• 22 Dec 2022N/a

  (1). Family Farm House. (2). Double garage. (3). Sewage treatment unit and percolation area to EPA guidelines. (4). New farm entrance to comply with sight line regulations. (4). All associated works.

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 221411

• 3 Feb 2022Conditional

  the following works to an existing 122 sqm dwelling 1. The demolition of an existing front porch and rear extension circa 47sqm 2. The construction of new extensions to front, rear and side of existing remaining dwelling measuring circa 119 sqm - providing an overall new total floor area for the proposed dwelling of 194sqm 3. Alterations and modifications to existing layout and elevations to allow for new design 4. A proposed new secondary treatment system to current EPA guidelines with a new percolation area to cater for the new proposed works, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2293

• 26 Aug 2021Conditional

  1) Retention permission sought for an existing circa 56sqm garage/boiler unit built on site. 2) Full planning permission for a proposed change of use (removal of condition no. 3 of planning permission ref no. 02/6167) from restricted use as a dwelling to use by all classes of persons and all associated site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 211062

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 Aghowle Lower.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghowle Lower.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghowle Lower.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3321 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Aghowle Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Aghowle Lower · Achadh Abhall Íochtarach

Area

1,313,632 m² (131.36 ha, 324.61 acres)

Civil parish

Rathnew, and its townlands

Barony

Newcastle

Electoral division

Ballycullen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballycullen electoral division: 339 people in 128 households; 73% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghowle Upper, Ballycullen, Ballyknockan More, Ballylusk, Ballymacsimon

Placenames

Aghowle Lower 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.