Carsrock
Townland in the civil parish of Baltinglass, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow
- Area
- 55.7 ha
- 138 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 81,845 m² (8.18 ha, 20.22 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carsrock, from 4,885 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres) to 280,102 m² (28.01 ha, 69.21 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Baltinglass Town Plan, Wicklow · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Community & Education (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Baltinglass Town Plan, Wicklow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
11 May 2017Conditional
replace 7 no partially completed detached houses with 14 no semi-detached two-storey split level homes and associated site works, together with all associated site works, boundary treatments, vehicular access, landscaping, all at sites 112 to 118 inclusive
Permission, 14 homes · Wicklow County Council, 17525
21 Apr 2017N/a
replace 7 no partially completed detached houses with 14 no semi detached two storey split level homes and associated site works,together with all associated site works, boundary treatments, vehicular access, landscaping
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17436
13 Mar 2017N/a
replace 7 no partially completed detached houses with 14 no semi detached two storey split level homes and associated site works, together with all associated site works, boundary treatment, vehicular access, landscaping
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17249
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 Carsrock.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carsrock.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carsrock.
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, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2729 (ZIP).
- 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 Carsrock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Carsrock
- Area
- 556,557 m² (55.66 ha, 137.53 acres)
- Civil parish
- Baltinglass, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Upper
- Electoral division
- Baltinglass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Baltinglass electoral division: 3,029 people in 1,075 households; 64% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Baltinglass East, Deerpark, Lathaleere, Pinnacle, Sruhaun
- Placenames
- Carsrock 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.