Cullen Lower

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cullen Lower, from 1,072 m² to 410,671 m² (41.07 ha, 101.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Cullen Lower 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.

• 3 Feb 2023N/a

  new single storey dwelling and garage, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, new site entrance, driveway and associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2393

• 20 Jan 2023N/a

  new single storey dwelling and garage, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, new site entrance, driveway and associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2337

• 2 Oct 2020Conditional

  utility room and sun room extension including associated site works to dwelling

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 20968

• 7 May 2020Conditional

  removal of existing thatch roof cover and proposed replacement of same with grey metal standing seam roof cladding, proposed velux windows and associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20423

• 9 Apr 2020N/a

  removal of existing thatch roof cover and proposed replacement of same with dark grey metal standing seam roof cladding, and new roof to existing rear extension, and associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20352

• 9 Apr 2020Conditional

  extension of 32m2 to the side of the dwelling

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 20355

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 Cullen Lower.

Recorded monuments

• WI031-113 Enclosure
  Description

  Located in a gently undulating landscape (c. 76m OD) characterised by tillage and pastoral farming, and located towards the S boundary of a field currently in use for tillage farming (July 2021). Landscape gently slopes upwards from E to W towards a highpoint in the landscape (c. 182m OD), which is located c. 1.1kms to the W, and slopes upwards to the SE towards a highpoint (c. 223m OD), located c. 675m to SE, where there is\was a cairn (WI031-028----) known locally as ‘the Old Woman’ (now in forestry plantation – July 2021). Site located c. 2.1kms NE of a church (WI031-035---) and c. 2kms NE of the remains of a house (WI031-023----) of sixteenth\seventeenth century date, indicated as ‘Dunganstown Castle’ on the Ordnance survey first ed. six-inch map of c. 1840, at Dunganstown West, and c. 2.4kms E\ESE of a pair of houses (WI031-048----), also of sixteenth\seventeenth century date, at Ballymurrin. This enclosure is faintly visible on the Google Earth aerial photograph of the site (July 2021) where part of the N arc a bivallate enclosure is evident. It consists of the N arc of a bivallate subcircular feature (ext. dims c. 77m N-S x 72.4m E-W) that is defined by an outer ditch (Wth c. 2.3m) and an inner ditch (Wth c. 1.46m) that are located c. 5.5m apart. Part of the NE quadrant of this feature may also be faintly visible on the above aerial photography while the track\outline of the outer bank\ditch may be preserved to the S in the slightly curving field boundary. No visible evidence for an entrance gap. Compiled by: T.J. O'Meara based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Uploaded on: 03/07/2023

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cullen Lower.

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

At the centre of the townland of Cullen Lower, about 1 in 20 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 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 Cullen Lower.

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.

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

Name

Cullen Lower · Cuilleann Íochtarach

Area

1,162,677 m² (116.27 ha, 287.3 acres)

Civil parish

Dunganstown, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Dunganstown East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

925 people lived in 305 households in the Dunganstown East electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydowling, Bonabrocka, Cullen Upper, Gormanstown, Threemilewater

Placenames

Cullen Lower 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.