# Cloghcastle, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Baltinglass, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Chloch. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 925,013 m² (92.5 ha, 228.58 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,046 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Baltinglass, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/baltinglass.md - Barony: Talbotstown Upper - Electoral division: Baltinglass, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 3,029 people lived in 1,075 households in the Baltinglass electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54597 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250496 - Centre: latitude 52.919305, longitude -6.696103 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghcastle, from 541 m² to 267,945 m² (26.79 ha, 66.21 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1288634: 267,945 m² (26.79 ha, 66.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288634.md - Parcel 1256511: 261,892 m² (26.19 ha, 64.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1256511.md - Parcel 1268738: 72,668 m² (7.27 ha, 17.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268738.md - Parcel 1288681: 60,072 m² (6.01 ha, 14.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288681.md - Parcel 1288685: 54,120 m² (5.41 ha, 13.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288685.md - Parcel 1288684: 53,238 m² (5.32 ha, 13.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288684.md - Parcel 1288683: 25,618 m² (2.56 ha, 6.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288683.md - Parcel 1288682: 24,026 m² (2.4 ha, 5.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288682.md - Parcel 1268737: 20,095 m² (2.01 ha, 4.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268737.md - Parcel 1268735: 20,069 m² (2.01 ha, 4.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268735.md - Parcel 1268736: 9,430 m² (0.94 ha, 2.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268736.md - Parcel 1283037: 8,162 m² (0.82 ha, 2.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1283037.md - Parcel 1256529: 6,838 m² (0.68 ha, 1.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1256529.md - Parcel 1289603: 4,197 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289603.md - Parcel 1268644: 4,046 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268644.md - Parcel 1275459: 2,536 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1275459.md - Parcel 1259100: 2,498 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1259100.md - Parcel 1279963: 2,415 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1279963.md - Parcel 1272335: 1,857 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1272335.md - Parcel 1285580: 1,537 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285580.md - Parcel 1286102: 1,354 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1286102.md - Parcel 1286479: 1,304 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1286479.md - Parcel 1270288: 1,103 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1270288.md - Parcel 1287806: 984 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1287806.md - Parcel 1248988: 975 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1248988.md - Parcel 1288421: 790 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288421.md - Parcel 1250410: 760 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1250410.md - Parcel 1279048: 736 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1279048.md - Parcel 1249781: 541 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1249781.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Cloghcastle in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 9 Jun 2026, Wicklow County Council 2660511: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660511/0 - 12 May 2026, Wicklow County Council 2660404: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660404/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC, site code 000781, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000781 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI027-061: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI027-061----. Situated on a gentle to marked E-facing slope. Marked 'Site of Castle' on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloghcastle. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Cloghcastle, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2730, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2730.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/cloghcastle.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/cloghcastle.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/cloghcastle.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Cloghcastle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Clogh Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/clogh-lower.md - Clogh Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/clogh-upper.md - Holdenstown Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/holdenstown-lower.md - Newtownsaunders: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/newtownsaunders.md - Slaney Park: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/slaney-park.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/cloghcastle - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/cloghcastle