# Blackditches Upper, 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 Uachtarach.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 639,565 m² (63.96 ha, 158.04 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,530 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 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/55002
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250374
- Centre: latitude 53.086108, longitude -6.527519 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blackditches Upper, from 1,638 m² to 135,294 m² (13.53 ha, 33.43 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1262322: 135,294 m² (13.53 ha, 33.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262322.md
- Parcel 1271683: 114,551 m² (11.46 ha, 28.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271683.md
- Parcel 1268195: 104,605 m² (10.46 ha, 25.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268195.md
- Parcel 1292221: 96,811 m² (9.68 ha, 23.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1292221.md
- Parcel 1294574: 61,980 m² (6.2 ha, 15.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1294574.md
- Parcel 2655257: 48,259 m² (4.83 ha, 11.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2655257.md
- Parcel 1277436: 45,546 m² (4.55 ha, 11.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277436.md
- Parcel 1263865: 6,344 m² (0.63 ha, 1.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1263865.md
- Parcel 1282394: 5,789 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282394.md
- Parcel 1275016: 3,272 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1275016.md
- Parcel 1273698: 3,237 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1273698.md
- Parcel 1280679: 2,756 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1280679.md
- Parcel 3693112: 2,706 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3693112.md
- Parcel 1259207: 2,272 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1259207.md
- Parcel 1278873: 2,109 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278873.md
- Parcel 1281813: 2,024 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281813.md
- Parcel 1298822: 1,861 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1298822.md
- Parcel 3435776: 1,638 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3435776.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

5 applications, newest first.

- 21 Apr 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560297: Refused. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560297/0
- 8 May 2024, Wicklow County Council 2460258: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. change of house design previously granted under PPRR 22/962 and for a domestic garage and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460258/0
- 2 Sept 2022, Wicklow County Council 22962: Conditional. Permission. dwelling serviced with an on-site wastewater treatment system to current EPA guidelines, accessed via existing laneway and for all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/22962/0
- 6 Apr 2022, Wicklow County Council 22347: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/22347/0
- 22 Mar 2022, Wicklow County Council 22274: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/22274/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Blackditches Upper.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- WI010-028: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI010-028----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## 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 Upper, 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.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Blackditches Upper.
- 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-upper.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/blackditches-upper.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/blackditches-upper.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

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: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Annacarney: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/annacarney.md
- Blackditches Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/blackditches-lower.md
- Lockstown Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/lockstown-lower.md
- Togher: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/togher-251320.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.

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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.

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