Connary Upper
Connary Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Castlemacadam, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Conaire Uachtarach.
- Area
- 92.3 ha
- 228 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 4,797 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Connary Upper, from 17 m² to 326,673 m² (32.67 ha, 80.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Connary 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
16 Feb 2024N/a
the change of use and upgrading of 2 existing stone buildings currently used as storage to accommodation for the purpose of short-term letting, demolition of both dilapidated buildings and rebuilding of same together with some minor elevational alterations including an increase on ridge heights, car parking and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460084
1 Sept 2021Conditional
change of use (removal of planning condition no. 3 of planning ref. no. 04/113) from restricted use as a dwelling to use by all classes of persons
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211085
30 Jul 2021N/a
change of use (removal of planning condition no. 3 of planning ref. no. 04/113) from restricted use as a dwelling to use by all classes of persons
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21950
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 Connary Upper.
Recorded monuments
- WI035-016 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a gentle to marked W-facing slope, in a wheat field. Marked on 1838 OS 6-inch map (max. diam. c. 55m). 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Connary 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Connary Upper, about 1 in 10 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3291 (ZIP).
- 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 Connary Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Connary Upper · Conaire Uachtarach
- Area
- 922,651 m² (92.27 ha, 227.99 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castlemacadam, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Cronebane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 533 people lived in 195 households in the Cronebane electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Castlehoward, Connary Lower, Cronebane, Kilmacoo Upper, Sroughmore
- Placenames
- Connary 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.