Danesfort Upper

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Danesfort Upper, from 4,154 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres) to 319,001 m² (31.9 ha, 78.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Danesfort Upper 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.

• 23 Mar 2023Conditional

  1. demolition of cattle shed, 2. erection of (a) slatted cow cubicle shed, (b) bedded cattle shed, (c) straw shed, (d) workshop and associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23282

• 17 Feb 2023N/a

  1. demolition of cattle shed 2. erection of a) slatted cow cubicle shed b) bedded cattle shed c) straw shed d) workshop

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23145

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 Danesfort Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WI027-066 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gentle SW-facing slope. Trivallate ringfort (int. diam. 25m; max. diam. c. 70m), known as the Danesfort (Price 1949, 110) bisected by a NW-SE townland boundary. The portion in Danesfort townland (SW) has been levelled. In the Fiddan townland portion, the outer rampart (NE) has been used (in a grant-aided scheme) to fill in the outer fosse; the inner banks are relatively well preserved (max. H from base of fosse to top of central bank c. 3m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008

• WI027-067 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on level ground on the SW edge of a marshy area. Oval enclosure (dims. c. 50m N-S; 40m E-W) marked on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008

• WI027-091 Enclosure
  Description

  Outline of circular shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 45m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Simon Dowling Date of upload: 21 October 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Danesfort 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

At the centre of the townland of Danesfort Upper, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Danesfort Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Danesfort Upper · An Ráithín Uachtarach

Area

991,311 m² (99.13 ha, 244.96 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltegan, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Humewood, the unit of the census

Census 2022

351 people lived in 134 households in the Humewood electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrig Upper, Danesfort Lower, Fiddan, Fiddancoyle, Muckduff Lower

Placenames

Danesfort 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.