Curtlestown Upper

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curtlestown Upper, from 201 m² to 316,210 m² (31.62 ha, 78.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• G3Objective G (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 20 Jul 2024Refused

  (1) Demolition of single storey extensions to front and rear elevations. (2) The construction of a part single part two-storey extension to the front elevation of the existing dwelling, along with external and internal modifications to the existing dwelling. (3) The installation of a new wastewater treatment unit and soil polishing filter to replace the existing system, along with all ancillary and associated site development works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460434

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Wicklow Mountains SAC 002122
• Special Protection Area: Wicklow Mountains SPA 004040

Recorded monuments

• WI007-077 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a south-facing, forested slope, planted with Scots Pine both internally and on the perimeter. A circular area (diam. c. 30m), defined by an intermittent low earth and stone bank along the E and by a scarp along the S where some large stones may be the remains of facing. Along the W a N-S field fence is built on the perimeter. The interior slopes down from N to S. A forestry track, on the line of an earlier roadway, skirts the N limits of the site. Marked on an estate map of 1816 (part of a set of maps of the Powerscourt Estate, presently held in the Irish Architectural Archive; Pers. comm. Chris Corlett). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 01 February 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Curtlestown 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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Curtlestown Upper.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Curtlestown Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Curtlestown Upper · Baile Mhic Thorcail Uachtarach

Area

807,533 m² (80.75 ha, 199.55 acres)

Civil parish

Powerscourt, and its townlands

Barony

Rathdown

Electoral division

Enniskerry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Enniskerry electoral division: 3,173 people in 970 households; 80% of households own their home; 18% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annacrivey, Ballybrew, Barnamire, Cloon, Curtlestown Lower, Glencullen Mountain (Co. Dublin)

Placenames

Curtlestown 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.