Clogh Upper

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clogh Upper, from 579 m² to 207,360 m² (20.74 ha, 51.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Clogh 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.

• 9 Jun 2026N/a

  relocate existing domestic residential entrance to form a double shared entrance with existing agricultural entrance including alterations to accommodate same, all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660511

• 12 Jun 2025Refused

  change of use of the site from agriculture to light industrial use, including the existing sheds, to provide for a seed processing facility and ancillary plant and storage areas. The proposed development will also include: the demolition of two existing buildings on site (c. 1,038 sq m GFA and c. 834 sq m GFA, respectively) and the construction of two interconnecting replacement buildings (with a combined GFA of c. 1,473 sq m and a maximum ridge height of c. 13m), to accommodate a seed drying plant, with external conveyors and seed dyers (c. 15.5m in height) located to the south-west. The development will also consist of: the provision of an additional weigh bridge located to the south of the site; alterations to the existing vehicular site entrance located at the south-east boundary, including the provision of new entrance gates and boundary treatment; provision of a new gate on the eastern site boundary; staff car parking; waste management areas; surface water drainage; hard and soft landscaping and all associated infrastructural and site development works above and below ground. (The proposed change of use relates to all buildings on site except for the existing dwelling to the north-east, including its associated curtilage and vehicular entrance)

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560437

• 19 Feb 2019Conditional

  internal modifications and extension to existing bungalow residential dwelling to form an independent living unit and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19169

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Clogh Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clogh Upper.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clogh 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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2730 (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.

No address of the register names Clogh Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Clogh Upper · An Chloch Uachtarach

Area

710,421 m² (71.04 ha, 175.55 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

Bawnoge, Clogh Lower, Cloghcastle, Holdenstown Lower, Irongrange Lower, Irongrange Upper, Rahill (Co. Carlow)

Placenames

Clogh 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.