Blackditches Upper

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blackditches Upper, from 1,638 m² to 135,294 m² (13.53 ha, 33.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Blackditches 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.

• 21 Apr 2025Refused

  Planning permission for a revision to the site boundary associated with the previously permitted development (Planning Ref. 22/347) for the construction of a single storey split level dwelling, new vehicular access, shed, wastewater treatment system, and all associated site development works at Logstown, Valleymount, Blessington, Co. Wicklow.

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2560297

• 8 May 2024Conditional

  change of house design previously granted under PPRR 22/962 and for a domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460258

• 2 Sept 2022Conditional

  dwelling serviced with an on-site wastewater treatment system to current EPA guidelines, accessed via existing laneway and for all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22962

• 6 Apr 2022Conditional

  proposed construction of a single storey split level dwelling, including new vehicular access to site, proposed shed and is to include a new waste water treatment system, al ancillary site development and landscaping work

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22347

• 22 Mar 2022N/a

  proposed construction of a single storey split level dwelling, including new vehicular access to site, proposed shed and is to include a new waste water treatment system, al ancillary site development and landscaping work

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22274

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 Blackditches Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WI010-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the summit of a ridge. Circular area (dims. 21.2m N-S; 19.3m E-W) defined by a poorly preserved bank of earth and stone (Wth 2m; H 0.15-0.7m) with discontinuous traces of an outer revetment of small boulders. No visible indication at ground level of a fosse, entrance or internal features. 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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Blackditches 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

At the centre of the townland of Blackditches Upper, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Blackditches Upper.

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 Blackditches Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Blackditches Upper · An Claí Dubh Uachtarach

Area

639,565 m² (63.96 ha, 158.04 acres)

Civil parish

Boystown, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Lower

Electoral division

Togher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Annacarney, Blackditches Lower, Lockstown Lower, Togher

Placenames

Blackditches 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.