Carrignamuck Upper
Carrignamuck Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Killiskey, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Carraig na Muc Uachtarach.
- Area
- 117 ha
- 289 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 8,127 m² (0.81 ha, 2.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrignamuck Upper, from 345 m² to 331,270 m² (33.13 ha, 81.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Carrignamuck Upper 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
16 Sept 2025Conditional
renovation and single storey-extension to existing single-storey dwelling, new wastewater treatment system, new access onto existing private lane and all associated site development works including drainage, fencing, native hedging and landscaping and new wastewater treatment system for Carrick Glen Clay Pigeon Club
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560731
2 Sept 2025Conditional
revisions to house type, house location and associated site work revisions to that as previously granted under plan ref. 21/1496 / An Bord Pleanala Ref. No. 314486-22, which included the construction of a dwelling, a new site entrance and access laneway, relocation of agricultural entrance, new effluent treatment system all together with associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560685
20 Mar 2024N/a
(1) Unit no 1. conversion and upgrading of existing farm building to family house containing 309.0sq.m, (2) Unit 1a. retention of rear extension to unit no 1 containing 64.0sq.m, (3) Retention of existing treatment and percolation area, (4) Retention of existing bored well, (5) Retention of existing entrance and access road to family home and farm land and building, (6) And all associated site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 24137
1 Nov 2022N/a
new dwelling, garage, new entrance on to public road, wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter, new well and associate works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221154
14 Dec 2021Refused
construction of a dwelling, new site entrance and access lane way, relocation of agricultural entrance, new effluent treatment system all together with associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211496
24 May 2021Conditional
the construction of an agricultural building (44m2) for use as a learning space, ancillary to the existing agricultural programmes provided on site, together with planning permission for the upgrade of existing effluent treatment system, all together with associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21603
20 Nov 2019Refused
part single, part double storey dwelling, closing of the existing agricultural site entrance and creating new domestic and new, relocated, agricultural site entrance, new domestic access lane and new sewage treatment system together with all necessary ancillary site works to facilitate this development
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 191243
16 Aug 2019Conditional
dwelling as constructed on foot of the previous grant of planning permission Register 99/887. It is requested that the retention of this development be grated in the absence of the burden placed against the entire site by condition 1 of Planning Reg Reference 99/887 which prohibits the subdivision of the applicants 45.88 acre land holding
Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19900
28 Mar 2019Conditional
floodlights for an arena and single storey painting studio
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 19326
29 Nov 2018N/a
construction of a new part single, part double storey dwelling; closing of the existing agricultural site entrance and creating new domestic and new, relocated agricultural site entrance; new domestic access lane and new sewage treatment system together with all ancillary site works to facilitate this development
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 181336
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Carrignamuck Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrignamuck Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrignamuck Upper.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Carrignamuck Upper, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3343 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Carrignamuck Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Carrignamuck Upper · Carraig na Muc Uachtarach
- Area
- 1,170,085 m² (117.01 ha, 289.13 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killiskey, and its townlands
- Barony
- Newcastle
- Electoral division
- Killiskey, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,637 people lived in 570 households in the Killiskey electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyduff Upper, Callowhill Upper, Carrignamuck Lower, Corsillagh, Dunranhill, Knockadreet, Knockfadda
- Placenames
- Carrignamuck Upper 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.