# Blakestown Lower, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Hollywood, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile an Bhlácaigh Íochtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 551,644 m² (55.16 ha, 136.31 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,726 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Hollywood, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/hollywood.md - Barony: Talbotstown Lower - Electoral division: Burgage, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,243 people lived in 656 households in the Burgage electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 58% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54653 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250382 - Centre: latitude 53.113776, longitude -6.589325 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blakestown Lower, from 1,572 m² to 392,498 m² (39.25 ha, 96.99 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1270649: 392,498 m² (39.25 ha, 96.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1270649.md - Parcel 1270337: 136,525 m² (13.65 ha, 33.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1270337.md - Parcel 1283460: 4,048 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1283460.md - Parcel 1283898: 3,405 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1283898.md - Parcel 5748393: 3,104 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5748393.md - Parcel 5748389: 1,572 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5748389.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Blakestown 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 28 May 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560398: N/a. Permission. single storey dwelling house, onsite secondary sewerage treatment system, domestic garage, and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560398/0 - 17 Jul 2020, Wicklow County Council 20694: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. single storey dwelling with small mezzanine space, septic thank & percolation area to current EPA guidelines, recessed entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/20694/0 - 7 Feb 2019, Wicklow County Council 19115: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. single storey dwelling with small mezzanine space, septic tank and percolation area to current EPA guidelines, recessed entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/19115/0 - 28 May 2018, Wicklow County Council 18575: Conditional. Extension of duration, 1 home. renovations to existing dwelling house, new septic tank and percolation area, alterations to existing entrance and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/18575/0 - 3 Jan 2017, Wicklow County Council 174: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. single storey dwelling with small mezzanine space, attached carport and domestic shed, septic tank and percolation area to current EPA guidelines, recessed entrance (in lieu of existing field access) and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/174/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - 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 Blakestown Lower. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Blakestown 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 Blakestown Lower, 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 high, 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 Blakestown 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/blakestown-lower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/blakestown-lower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/blakestown-lower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Blakestown 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) - Athgarvan: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/athgarvan.md - Ballysize Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballysize-lower.md - Bishopsland (Co. Kildare): https://everytownland.com/kildare/bishopsland-80172.md - Blakestown Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/blakestown-upper.md - Britonstown: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/britonstown.md - Glebe: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/glebe-250713.md - Killerk: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/killerk.md - Silverhill Lower (Co. Kildare): https://everytownland.com/kildare/silverhill-lower.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/blakestown-lower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/blakestown-lower