# Blackditches Lower, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Boystown, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Claí Dubh Íochtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 641,419 m² (64.14 ha, 158.5 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,058 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Boystown, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/boystown.md - Barony: Talbotstown Lower - Electoral division: Togher, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 387 people lived in 129 households in the Togher electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55001 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250373 - Centre: latitude 53.091958, longitude -6.534251 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blackditches Lower, from 172 m² to 106,865 m² (10.69 ha, 26.41 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1275014: 106,865 m² (10.69 ha, 26.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1275014.md - Parcel 1278510: 94,540 m² (9.45 ha, 23.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278510.md - Parcel 1260112: 93,652 m² (9.37 ha, 23.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1260112.md - Parcel 1297578: 85,609 m² (8.56 ha, 21.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1297578.md - Parcel 1274079: 83,914 m² (8.39 ha, 20.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1274079.md - Parcel 1260292: 72,492 m² (7.25 ha, 17.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1260292.md - Parcel 2490031: 31,790 m² (3.18 ha, 7.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2490031.md - Parcel 2490028: 27,329 m² (2.73 ha, 6.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2490028.md - Parcel 4831269: 14,287 m² (1.43 ha, 3.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4831269.md - Parcel 4649294: 7,044 m² (0.7 ha, 1.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4649294.md - Parcel 3393809: 4,058 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3393809.md - Parcel 3384816: 3,941 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3384816.md - Parcel 1268194: 3,936 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268194.md - Parcel 1294575: 3,649 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1294575.md - Parcel 4831270: 3,002 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4831270.md - Parcel 1299879: 1,958 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1299879.md - Parcel 1262321: 1,320 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262321.md - Parcel 1275576: 699 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1275576.md - Parcel 1260236: 613 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1260236.md - Parcel 1260221: 581 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1260221.md - Parcel 1274568: 172 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1274568.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Blackditches Lower in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Blackditches Lower in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Poulaphouca Reservoir SPA, site code 004063, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004063 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Poulaphouca Reservoir, site code 000731 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Blackditches Lower. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Blackditches Lower. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Blackditches Lower, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Blackditches Lower. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/blackditches-lower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/blackditches-lower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/blackditches-lower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Blackditches Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Annacarney: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/annacarney.md - Blackditches Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/blackditches-upper.md - Lockstown Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/lockstown-lower.md - Monamuck: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/monamuck.md - Valleymount or Cross: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/valleymount-or-cross.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/blackditches-lower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/blackditches-lower