Clarabeg North
Clarabeg North is a townland in the civil parish of Knockrath, barony of Ballinacor North, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is An Clárach Beag Thuaidh.
- Area
- 179 ha
- 442 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 4,401 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clarabeg North, from 66 m² to 834,748 m² (83.47 ha, 206.27 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Clarabeg North 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
31 Jul 2026N/a
dwelling as constructed (without restrictive conditions, similar to condition no. 2 as granted under 09/610), which includes minor revisions to include minor changes to internal layout, additional velux windows and revision to the site entrance together with all associated site works at the site
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2660680
7 Jul 2023Conditional
an art & hobby room
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 23588
16 Jun 2023N/a
an Art & Hobby Room
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 23540
14 Sept 2022Conditional
existing domestic shed as constructed and associate works and permission for the removal of planning condition no. 2 of planning ref 03/9871 (from restricted use of dwelling to use by all classes of person)
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 22994
24 Mar 2021Conditional
single storey conservatory extension to the side and a two-storey extension to the rear of our home. Permission to: a) demolish our existing garage and replace with a new garage and domestic workshop in the same location, and b) to build a new home office and gym in the rear garden c) construct a ground mounted 20 panel (30sqm) photovoltaic array in the rear garden d) along with all associated site works. Clara House is a protected structure
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 21315
3 Mar 2021N/a
single storey conservatory extension to the side and a two-storey extension to the rear of our house.PERMISSION TO: a) demolish our existing garage and replace with a new garage and domestic workshop in the same location and b) to build a new home office and gym in the rear garden. c) Construct a ground mounted 20 panel (30sqm) photo voltaic array in the rear garden along with all associated site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 21216
10 Dec 2019Conditional
dwelling, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, well, entrance onto public road and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 191325
22 Mar 2019Conditional
alterations to Planning Register Reference 18/897 which will include repositioning of dwelling and garage on site, revision of boundaries, revised floor level along with realignment / regrading of driveway and all associated ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19309
13 Dec 2018Conditional
installation of 20 photo voltaic (PV) panels totalling 30 sqm distributed on the east, south and south west roof surfaces of the existing dwelling
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 181392
7 Aug 2018Conditional
dwelling, garage, effluent disposal system to current EPA standards, well, entrance access, together with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18897
31 Oct 2017N/a
dwelling, garage, effluent disposal system to current EPA standards, well, proposed new entrance access together with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 171319
10 Oct 2017Conditional
construction of a dwelling, domestic car garage, bored well and effluent treatment system, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 171231
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: Vale of Clara (Rathdrum Wood) SAC 000733
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Vale Of Clara (Rathdrum Wood) 000733
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clarabeg North.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clarabeg North.
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 Clarabeg North, about 1 in 5 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clarabeg North.
- 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 Clarabeg North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Clarabeg North · An Clárach Beag Thuaidh
- Area
- 1,790,418 m² (179.04 ha, 442.42 acres)
- Civil parish
- Knockrath, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor North
- Electoral division
- Trooperstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 348 people lived in 116 households in the Trooperstown electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clara More, Clarabeg South, Cronybyrne, Glenwood, Moyntiagh, Parkroe, Trooperstown
- Placenames
- Clarabeg North 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.