# Blainroe Lower, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilpoole, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Bhléin Rua Íochtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,108,255 m² (110.83 ha, 273.86 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,009 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilpoole, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/kilpoole.md - Barony: Arklow - Electoral division: Wicklow Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 10,247 people lived in 3,334 households in the Wicklow Rural electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55751 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250380 - Centre: latitude 52.955824, longitude -6.044989 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blainroe Lower, from 624 m² to 665,708 m² (66.57 ha, 164.5 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1278678: 665,708 m² (66.57 ha, 164.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278678.md - Parcel 1265470: 429,913 m² (42.99 ha, 106.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1265470.md - Parcel 2901810: 4,398 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2901810.md - Parcel 1271565: 3,009 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271565.md - Parcel 1267005: 2,682 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1267005.md - Parcel 1294715: 1,916 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1294715.md - Parcel 1268070: 624 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268070.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Blainroe 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 1 May 2026, Wicklow County Council 2660366: N/a. Permission. change of use to convert circa (851 msq) of the former Varty Garage building a gymnasium/sports centre, all this together with associated yard parking and development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660366/0 - 2 Jul 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560490: Refused. Permission. a single storey dwelling, effluent disposal system to current EPA requirements, relocation of agricultural field entrance to form new residential & agricultural entrance, landscape plan, new screening earth banking & associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560490/0 - 29 Jun 2022, Wicklow County Council 22721: N/a. Permission, 1 home. storey and a half type dwelling house along with proposed effluent disposal systems to current EPA requirements and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/22721/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Blainroe Lower. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Blainroe Lower. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Blainroe 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 Blainroe 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. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3403, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3403.zip (ZIP). - 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/blainroe-lower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/blainroe-lower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/blainroe-lower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Blainroe 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) - Ballyguile Beg: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyguile-beg.md - Ballyguile More: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyguile-more.md - Blainroe Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/blainroe-upper.md - Kilpoole Hill: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/kilpoole-hill.md - Kilpoole Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/kilpoole-lower.md - Raheenmore: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/raheenmore.md - Toberaviller: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/toberaviller.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/blainroe-lower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/blainroe-lower