Aghowle Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Rathnew, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Achadh Abhall Uachtarach
- Area
- 197.3 ha
- 488 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 19,015 m² (1.9 ha, 4.7 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghowle Upper, from 27 m² to 402,933 m² (40.29 ha, 99.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Aghowle 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
3 Nov 2023Conditional
alterations to previously approved planning application Ref. 21/977 consisting of changes to the proposed single storey extension to existing single storey dwelling, the addition of a domestic garage and covered car port and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23815
15 Nov 2021N/a
dwelling, garage, use of existing laneway and entrance on to public road, wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter, new well and associate works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211363
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
6 Aug 2021Conditional
new single storey extension tot he rear of existing dwelling, new front porch, upgrade to existing effluent disposal system to current EPA standards, together with all ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21977
30 Jul 2021Conditional
dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21948
11 May 2021Conditional
dwelling as granted under planning Reg. Ref. No. 89/5219 together with all associated site works, retention of dormer windows to attic storage space and retention of side conservatory and associated works. It is requested that this development be granted in the absence of the sterilisation agreement placed against the entire land holding by condition no. 11 of Planning Reg. Ref. No. 89/5219
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 21550
24 Mar 2021N/a
single storey dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards. Garage, entrance and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21313
20 Jul 2020N/a
dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, new entrance and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20696
14 Sept 2018N/a
dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA 2009 standards, garage, revised entrance to accommodate entrance to existing dwelling and proposed new entrance and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 181016
13 Sept 2018Conditional
dwelling and effluent treatment system, together with associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 181012
5 Jul 2017Conditional
change of use (removal of condition 2a of Planning Reference 03/9844) from restricted use as a dwelling to use by all classes of persons
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17812
28 Jun 2017N/a
change of use (removal of condition 2(a) of Planning Reference 03/9844) from restricted use as a dwelling to use by all classes of person
Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17781
6 Jun 2017N/a
change of use (removal of condition 2A of Planning Ref 03/9844) from restricted use as a dwelling to use by all classes of persons
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17656
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 Aghowle Upper.
Recorded monuments
- WI024-009 Enclosure
Description
Depicted as a small enclosure on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map and recorded by the Ordnance Survey Letters of 1838-40 (O'Flanagan 1928, 86) as a rath in this townland. Date of upload: 19 October 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghowle 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
- 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, low (inferred), 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Aghowle Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Aghowle Upper · Achadh Abhall Uachtarach
- Area
- 1,973,129 m² (197.31 ha, 487.57 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 Lower, Ballycullen, Ballyknockan More, Ballymanus Upper, Parkmore, Sleanaglogh
- Placenames
- Aghowle 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.