# Blackhill, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Dunlavin, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Cnoc Dubh.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 345,035 m² (34.5 ha, 85.26 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,195 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Dunlavin, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/dunlavin.md
- Barony: Talbotstown Lower
- Electoral division: Dunlavin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,580 people lived in 526 households in the Dunlavin electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54700
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250375
- Centre: latitude 53.056049, longitude -6.668568 (WGS 84)

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

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blackhill, from 27 m² to 191,971 m² (19.2 ha, 47.44 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1285165: 191,971 m² (19.2 ha, 47.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285165.md
- Parcel 1277463: 134,394 m² (13.44 ha, 33.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277463.md
- Parcel 3381237: 3,544 m² (0.35 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3381237.md
- Parcel 1255540: 3,093 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1255540.md
- Parcel 1259129: 2,564 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1259129.md
- Parcel 1268227: 2,306 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268227.md
- Parcel 1292231: 2,084 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1292231.md
- Parcel 1262345: 2,062 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262345.md
- Parcel 1294509: 1,932 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1294509.md
- Parcel 1261164: 547 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1261164.md
- Parcel 1276961: 169 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1276961.md
- Parcel 1298751: 27 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1298751.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Blackhill 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)

6 applications, newest first.

- 4 Mar 2026, Wicklow County Council 2649: Refused. Retention. hardcore surface storage area referred to in UD5294. Full planning permission is also sought for the removal of the existing entrance and access track and reinstatement of same to farmland, construction of new entrance and access track, extension of the hardcore yard, construction of new landscaped screening banks to parts of the eastern and western boundaries, all associated planting, ancillary works and the material change of use from agricultural use to allow for storage of unprocessed timber for the purpose of drying same. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2649/0
- 2 May 2023, Wicklow County Council 23425: N/a. Retention. retention of the hardcore surface storage area referred to in UD5294; full planning permission is also sought for the removal of the existing entrance and access track and reinstatement of same to landscaping; construction of the new entrance and access track; extension of the hardcore yard; construction of the new landscaped screening banks to parts of the Eastern and Western boundaries; all associated ancillary works and the material change of use from agricultural use to allow for storage of timber for the purpose of drying same. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/23425/0
- 27 Oct 2022, Wicklow County Council 221140: Refused. Retention. the widening of the existing farm entrance, upgrade of existing farm track and retention of the hardcore surface of this track and storage area referred to in UD5294. Full planning permission is also sought for the upgrade of the existing entrance, removal of areas of the hardcore track and reinstatement of same to landscaping, extension of the hardcore yard, construction of new landscaped screening banks to parts of the Eastern and Western boundaries, all associated ancillary works and the material change of use from agricultural use to allow for storage of timber for the purpose of drying and parking of the applicants own commercial vehicles. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/221140/0
- 19 May 2021, Wicklow County Council 21581: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a four-bedroom part two-storey, part single-storey house, with 4 no. rooflights, a single storey domestic garage, new direct road access, a new septic tank and percolation area, landscaping and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/21581/0
- 24 Jun 2019, Wicklow County Council 19672: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. dwelling, on site treatment unit and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/19672/0
- 8 Jun 2018, Wicklow County Council 18634: Conditional. Retention. pitched roof over existing cottage and extension, alterations and extensions to rear with ground floor extension (26 sqm) rooflight and all associated site works. Permission for new sewage treatment plant and polishing filter.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/18634/0

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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 Blackhill.

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Blackhill.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## 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 Blackhill, about 1 in 10 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 Blackhill.
- 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/blackhill.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/blackhill.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/blackhill.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Blackhill 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)

- Boherboy: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/boherboy.md
- Brewershill: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/brewershill.md
- Forristeen: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/forristeen.md
- Friarhill: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/friarhill.md
- Plezica: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/plezica.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.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/blackhill
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/blackhill