Castlegrange
Townland in the civil parish of Killiskey, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Caisleán na Gráinsí
- Area
- 126.8 ha
- 313 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 13,248 m² (1.32 ha, 3.27 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlegrange, from 51 m² to 759,866 m² (75.99 ha, 187.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Castlegrange 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 Apr 2025Conditional
construction of a new farm entrance and fence onto the R761, access road and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560286
30 May 2024N/a
permission to convert/repurpose an existing farm building into a small private abattoir. Total floor area of 252.90sqm to a total height of 25.21m
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460298
19 Jan 2024N/a
convert/repurpose existing farm storage building into small private abattoir for own beef animals. Total floor area of 340sqm to a total height of 23.520m
Outline permission · Wicklow County Council, 2420
23 Nov 2023N/a
conversion of existing farm building into state of the art environmentally friendly small private abattoir
Outline permission · Wicklow County Council, 23858
12 Sept 2022Refused
new roadside entrance to access farm along with all associated ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22985
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: The Murrough Wetlands SAC 002249
- Special Protection Area: The Murrough cSPA 004186
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: The Murrough 000730
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Castlegrange.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Castlegrange.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Castlegrange.
- 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 Castlegrange with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Castlegrange · Caisleán na Gráinsí
- Area
- 1,268,155 m² (126.82 ha, 313.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killiskey, and its townlands
- Barony
- Newcastle
- Electoral division
- Newcastle Lower, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Newcastle Lower electoral division: 2,472 people in 797 households; 77% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybla, Barnacoyle Big, Barnacoyle Little, Grange South
- Placenames
- Castlegrange 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.