Aughrim Upper

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aughrim Upper, from 17 m² to 615,550 m² (61.55 ha, 152.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Aughrim Town Plan, Wicklow · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 22 Jul 2026N/a

  dwelling, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new well, upgrade existing entrance onto public road and associate works

  Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2660648

• 17 Dec 2025Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new well, upgrade existing entrance onto public road and associate works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2561030

• 14 Apr 2025Conditional

  1. retention for extensions to existing dwelling. 2. retention for home office/gym building. 3. retention for effluent treatment tank. 4. planning to install a percolation area to comply with current EPA requirements

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2590

• 9 Dec 2022Conditional

  proposed new dwelling, garage, on-site sewage treatment system to current EPA standards, new road entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221320

• 3 Sept 2021Conditional

  proposed dwelling, wastewater treatment system to EPA standards, garage, revised entrance and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211091

• 24 Jul 2018Conditional

  erect an illuminated Holy Cross along with all associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18844

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 Aughrim Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WI034-016 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a gentle S-facing slope. Circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) marked only on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. Not visible at ground level. 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

• WI034-021 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a gentle SE-facing slope overlooking the Aughrim River. Marked as 'Site of Castle' on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; the field to the N is still called the 'Castle Field'. Not visible at ground level. Local landowner discovered a passage or a large stone lined culvert along the SW side of the laneway leading to the site from the NW. Some of the stone used in the late 19th century to construct 2 farm labourers cottages immediately S of the site (on the W side of the laneway leading to the site from the SW) look as though they could have been re-utilized from an earlier building' (SMR File 27/06/1990). 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: 5 May 2016

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aughrim 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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 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_3187 (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 Aughrim Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Aughrim Upper · Eachroim Uachtarach

Area

2,756,134 m² (275.61 ha, 681.06 acres)

Civil parish

Ballykine, and its townlands

Barony

Ballinacor South

Electoral division

Aughrim, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Aughrim electoral division: 1,973 people in 655 households; 70% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughrim Lower, Balleeshal, Craffield, Macreddin East, Macreddin West, Sheeanabeg (Robeck), Threewells

Placenames

Aughrim 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.