# Curtlestown Upper, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Powerscourt, barony of Rathdown, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Mhic Thorcail Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 807,533 m² (80.75 ha, 199.55 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,762 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): G3 Objective G, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Powerscourt, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/powerscourt.md - Barony: Rathdown - Electoral division: Enniskerry, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 3,173 people lived in 970 households in the Enniskerry electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55051 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250623 - Centre: latitude 53.195276, longitude -6.231416 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Curtlestown Upper, from 201 m² to 316,210 m² (31.62 ha, 78.14 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5115284: 316,210 m² (31.62 ha, 78.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5115284.md - Parcel 1271850: 261,155 m² (26.12 ha, 64.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271850.md - Parcel 1278368: 223,917 m² (22.39 ha, 55.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278368.md - Parcel 1289153: 3,762 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289153.md - Parcel 1271985: 2,153 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271985.md - Parcel 1271760: 1,966 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271760.md - Parcel 1248377: 201 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1248377.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - G3 Objective G (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No.1), Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.dlrcoco.ie/CDP_proposed-variation-no1 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 20 Jul 2024, Wicklow County Council 2460434: Refused. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460434/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Wicklow Mountains SAC, site code 002122, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002122 - Special Protection Area: Wicklow Mountains SPA, site code 004040, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004040 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI007-077: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI007-077----. 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 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 Curtlestown Upper. ## 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 Curtlestown Upper, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low. - 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, 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/curtlestown-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/curtlestown-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/curtlestown-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Annacrivey: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/annacrivey.md - Ballybrew: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballybrew.md - Barnamire: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/barnamire.md - Cloon: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/cloon.md - Curtlestown Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/curtlestown-lower.md - Glencullen Mountain (Co. Dublin): https://everytownland.com/dublin/glencullen-mountain.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/curtlestown-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/curtlestown-upper