Cullentragh Big
Cullentragh Big is a townland in the civil parish of Knockrath, barony of Ballinacor North, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is An Chuileanntrach Mhór.
- Area
- 376 ha
- 929 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 34,896 m² (3.49 ha, 8.62 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cullentragh Big, from 85 m² to 495,204 m² (49.52 ha, 122.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Cullentragh Big 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
20 Apr 2026Conditional
(1) construction of a single storey extension to the side of existing detached two storey dwelling, (2) refurbishment of existing derelict outbuilding ‘A’ for home gymnasium use and outbuilding ‘B’ for home office use. (3) demolition of outbuilding ‘C’ store. (4) decommissioning of existing septic tank, and installation of approved effluent treatment system and soil polishing filter. (5) new private bored well, (6) and all site development works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660323
11 Mar 2026Conditional
construction of a new dwelling, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto existing lane which leads to existing entrance onto public road and associate works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660172
6 Feb 2019Conditional
558.3 sqm extension to existing agricultural shed to house cattle, slatted slurry storage tank and associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 19109
23 Mar 2017Refused
agricultural shed of 174.4 sqm gross floor area to contain 3 no stables, housing for a tractor / agricultural machinery and storage of feedstuffs, tools etc and all associated site works including closing off an existing vehicular entrance and the provision of a new vehicular entrance at a different location and a gravelled track from the vehicular entrance to the agricultural shed
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17309
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: Wicklow Mountains SAC 002122
- Special Protection Area: Wicklow Mountains SPA 004040
Recorded monuments
- WI023-033 Standing stone
Description
Stone marked on 1908-9 edition of the OS six-inch. Probably erected by the Ordnance Survey as the stone is located on high ground marking the townland boundary between Cullentragh Big and Ballybraid. Date of upload: 18 October 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cullentragh Big.
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 Cullentragh Big, 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 Cullentragh Big.
- 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 Cullentragh Big with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Cullentragh Big · An Chuileanntrach Mhór
- Area
- 3,759,628 m² (375.96 ha, 929.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Knockrath, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor North
- Electoral division
- Knockrath, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 252 people lived in 85 households in the Knockrath electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballard, Ballardpark, Ballybraid, Cullentragh Little, Derrybawn, Knockrath Big
- Placenames
- Cullentragh Big 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.