Cronyhorn Upper
Cronyhorn Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Carnew, barony of Shillelagh, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Corrán na hEorna Uachtarach.
- Area
- 365.2 ha
- 903 acres
- Land parcels
- 120
- registered freehold, median 3,696 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
120 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cronyhorn Upper, from 353 m² to 744,603 m² (74.46 ha, 184 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Cronyhorn 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
6 Mar 2024Conditional
two storey extension & alterations to existing two storey dwelling, demolition of existing single storey extension, new site entrance, new garage, new on-site treatment system and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 24114
13 Oct 2023N/a
construction of two storey extension & alterations to existing two storey dwelling, demolition of existing single storey extension, increased roof height to existing dwelling, new site entrance, new garage, new on-site treatment system and associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23771
12 Sept 2023Conditional
proposed dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23702
19 Jul 2022Refused
to erect a steel framed shed for private use as equestrian arena and all associated site and ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22797
14 Sept 2021Conditional
as constructed dwelling and all ancillary services and site works
Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211125
10 Mar 2021Conditional
2 no out buildings and associated site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 21251
25 Sept 2017Conditional
slatted cattle shed, concrete aprons and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 171156
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: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cronyhorn Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cronyhorn 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 Cronyhorn Upper, 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 Cronyhorn Upper.
- 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 Cronyhorn Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Cronyhorn Upper · Corrán na hEorna Uachtarach
- Area
- 3,652,341 m² (365.23 ha, 902.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Carnew, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shillelagh
- Electoral division
- Carnew, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,873 people lived in 708 households in the Carnew electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balisland, Ballyknocker East, Carnew, Cronyhorn Lower, Deerpark, Tomacork
- Placenames
- Cronyhorn 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.