# Cullen Lower, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Dunganstown, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Cuilleann Íochtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,162,677 m² (116.27 ha, 287.3 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,919 m² (0.79 ha, 1.96 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Dunganstown, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/dunganstown.md - Barony: Arklow - Electoral division: Dunganstown East, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55353 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250610 - Centre: latitude 52.929797, longitude -6.064215 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cullen Lower, from 1,072 m² to 410,671 m² (41.07 ha, 101.48 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1278691: 410,671 m² (41.07 ha, 101.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278691.md - Parcel 1297807: 158,015 m² (15.8 ha, 39.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1297807.md - Parcel 1272698: 87,254 m² (8.73 ha, 21.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1272698.md - Parcel 1271570: 79,185 m² (7.92 ha, 19.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271570.md - Parcel 1276086: 71,378 m² (7.14 ha, 17.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1276086.md - Parcel 1271210: 70,195 m² (7.02 ha, 17.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271210.md - Parcel 1276859: 60,958 m² (6.1 ha, 15.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1276859.md - Parcel 1284410: 59,341 m² (5.93 ha, 14.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1284410.md - Parcel 1283451: 57,394 m² (5.74 ha, 14.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1283451.md - Parcel 1289339: 29,934 m² (2.99 ha, 7.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289339.md - Parcel 1280765: 15,095 m² (1.51 ha, 3.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1280765.md - Parcel 1257602: 13,206 m² (1.32 ha, 3.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1257602.md - Parcel 1296363: 8,112 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1296363.md - Parcel 1273582: 7,726 m² (0.77 ha, 1.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1273582.md - Parcel 1270939: 6,546 m² (0.65 ha, 1.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1270939.md - Parcel 1281962: 4,611 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281962.md - Parcel 5688129: 3,872 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5688129.md - Parcel 4269341: 3,851 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4269341.md - Parcel 5158254: 3,185 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5158254.md - Parcel 1292448: 2,495 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1292448.md - Parcel 4873950: 2,098 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4873950.md - Parcel 1282556: 2,079 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282556.md - Parcel 1256347: 2,015 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1256347.md - Parcel 1256188: 1,295 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1256188.md - Parcel 1294724: 1,095 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1294724.md - Parcel 1281430: 1,072 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281430.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 3 Feb 2023, Wicklow County Council 2393: N/a. Permission. new single storey dwelling and garage, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, new site entrance, driveway and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2393/0 - 20 Jan 2023, Wicklow County Council 2337: N/a. Permission. new single storey dwelling and garage, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, new site entrance, driveway and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2337/0 - 2 Oct 2020, Wicklow County Council 20968: Conditional. Retention. utility room and sun room extension including associated site works to dwelling. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/20968/0 - 7 May 2020, Wicklow County Council 20423: Conditional. Permission. removal of existing thatch roof cover and proposed replacement of same with grey metal standing seam roof cladding, proposed velux windows and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/20423/0 - 9 Apr 2020, Wicklow County Council 20352: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/20352/0 - 9 Apr 2020, Wicklow County Council 20355: Conditional. Retention. extension of 32m2 to the side of the dwelling. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/20355/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cullen Lower. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI031-113: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI031-113----. 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 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 Cullen Lower. ## 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 Cullen Lower, about 1 in 20 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 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 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/cullen-lower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/cullen-lower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/cullen-lower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballydowling: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballydowling-250181.md - Bonabrocka: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/bonabrocka.md - Cullen Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/cullen-upper.md - Gormanstown: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/gormanstown.md - Threemilewater: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/threemilewater.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/cullen-lower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/cullen-lower