Carrigroe
Townland in the civil parish of Derrylossary, barony of Ballinacor North, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Charraig Rua
- Area
- 228.6 ha
- 565 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 288,682 m² (28.87 ha, 71.33 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrigroe, from 21,837 m² (2.18 ha, 5.4 acres) to 661,775 m² (66.18 ha, 163.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Carrigroe 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
24 Jun 2026Conditional
proposed alterations to existing dwelling house, proposed conversion of existing attached garage into bedroom, proposed bathroom & home office, proposed upgrade of existing septic tank & soakpit to proposed proprietary treatment system & percolation area and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660567
5 Jul 2024Conditional
and completion of conversion of agricultural building to tourism hostel, proposed car parking, proposed waste water treatment system to EPA standards and associated works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 24304
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Wicklow Mountains SAC 002122
- Special Protection Area: Wicklow Mountains SPA 004040
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrigroe.
Architectural heritage
- Lake Park House, house, 1825–1845 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay part single part two-storey triple-pile house, built c.1835, but with rear sections possibly raised to their present two storeys in the later 1800s or early 1900s. The walls are finished in painted roughcast whilst all sections of the roof are hipped and slated and have rendered chimneystacks. To the front the roof oversails to form a veranda either side of the entrance. The veranda is supported on slender cast-iron columns and has broad roof lights. The entrance itself is set within a gable with decorative bargeboards and finial, and consists of a panelled timber door and sidelights with decorative leaded tracery, all encased with panelled timber jambs and an entablature supported on console brackets. Above the entablature is a broad elliptical fanlight, also with decorative leaded tracery. The windows are generally flat-headed and filled with mullioned timber frames, or one over one timber sash frames. To the west elevation there is a French window with pointed arch fanlight with Gothick tracery. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The house is set within extensive grounds.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrigroe.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Carrigroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Carrigroe · An Charraig Rua
- Area
- 2,285,740 m² (228.57 ha, 564.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Derrylossary, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor North
- Electoral division
- Togher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Togher electoral division: 1,500 people in 488 households; 70% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ashtown or Ballinafunshoge, Ballinrush, Baltynanima, Carrigeenduff, Carrigeenshinnagh, Drummin, Togher More
- Placenames
- Carrigroe 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.