Carrignagower

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrignagower, from 311,579 m² (31.16 ha, 76.99 acres) to 386,899 m² (38.69 ha, 95.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Carrignagower 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Carrignagower in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Carrignagower.

Recorded monuments

• WI001-025 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Listed as a 'cairn' in the SMR (1986) and as a 'possible cairn' in the RMP (1995) based on aerial photographic evidence (GSI O 88/89/90 (1973)). On a gentle W-facing slope with steeper ground to the E. Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 29 November 2012

• WI001-044 Cross-inscribed stone
  Description

  Situated on level ground with a steeper slope immediately to the NE. Square granite block (max. L 1.02m; max. Wth 0.81m) resting on the ground surface except at the southern corner where it rests on two small stones. There is an incised ringed cross with expanded terminals on the upper surface. One flint core and three flint flakes were found about 25m from the slab, in the same field. (Sullivan 1994; NMI files IA/235/68). 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 Carrignagower.

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 Carrignagower, about 1 in 10 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 Carrignagower.

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

Name

Carrignagower · Carraig na nGabhar

Area

735,144 m² (73.51 ha, 181.66 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbride (Baltinglass Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Lower

Electoral division

Kilbride, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,093 people lived in 367 households in the Kilbride electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 15% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyfolan, Kilbride, Knockbane, Lisheens

Placenames

Carrignagower 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.