# Donard Upper, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donard, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Dún Ard Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 410,708 m² (41.07 ha, 101.49 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 462 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): M2 Primary Development Area, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 9 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donard, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/donard.md - Barony: Talbotstown Lower - Electoral division: Donard, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 586 people lived in 206 households in the Donard electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54688 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250643 - Centre: latitude 53.018715, longitude -6.6073 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Donard Upper, from 2 m² to 116,316 m² (11.63 ha, 28.74 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1297646: 116,316 m² (11.63 ha, 28.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1297646.md - Parcel 1295946: 91,763 m² (9.18 ha, 22.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1295946.md - Parcel 1296209: 89,859 m² (8.99 ha, 22.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1296209.md - Parcel 1284997: 28,865 m² (2.89 ha, 7.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1284997.md - Parcel 1285647: 24,385 m² (2.44 ha, 6.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285647.md - Parcel 1292374: 10,407 m² (1.04 ha, 2.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1292374.md - Parcel 1289247: 10,257 m² (1.03 ha, 2.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289247.md - Parcel 1291457: 3,268 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1291457.md - Parcel 1271827: 2,819 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271827.md - Parcel 1265248: 2,202 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1265248.md - Parcel 1292007: 2,183 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1292007.md - Parcel 1248854: 1,964 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1248854.md - Parcel 1259056: 1,718 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1259056.md - Parcel 1287711: 1,310 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1287711.md - Parcel 1292838: 679 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1292838.md - Parcel 6227542: 648 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6227542.md - Parcel 1268907: 634 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268907.md - Parcel 1286386: 614 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1286386.md - Parcel 5753584: 539 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5753584.md - Parcel 1286074: 517 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1286074.md - Parcel 1288759: 516 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288759.md - Parcel 5048515: 484 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5048515.md - Parcel 5048514: 462 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5048514.md - Parcel 5659870: 422 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5659870.md - Parcel 1293505: 420 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1293505.md - Parcel 1263694: 416 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1263694.md - Parcel 1248830: 320 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1248830.md - Parcel 1264909: 311 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1264909.md - Parcel 1291671: 283 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1291671.md - Parcel 4454535: 280 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4454535.md - Parcel 1293302: 246 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1293302.md - Parcel 1290318: 189 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1290318.md - Parcel 1273136: 180 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1273136.md - Parcel 1290844: 174 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1290844.md - Parcel 1289975: 169 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289975.md - Parcel 1267120: 164 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1267120.md - Parcel 5558541: 160 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5558541.md - Parcel 1288138: 156 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288138.md - Parcel 1256016: 153 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1256016.md - Parcel 1291326: 142 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1291326.md - Parcel 1248829: 133 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1248829.md - Parcel 5558540: 9 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5558540.md - Parcel 5558542: 6 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5558542.md - Parcel 5657703: 4 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5657703.md - Parcel 5558091: 2 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5558091.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - M2 Primary Development Area (City/Town/village Centre, central area): Donard Town Plan, Wicklow; 21 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.wicklow.ie/Portals/0/adam/Documents/BhxpCkHs5k-MB1L7X9tENg/Link/Level%206%20Donard%20Town%20Plan%202022%20-%202028.pdf - R3 Secondary Development Area (Residential, mixed residential and other uses): Donard Town Plan, Wicklow; 14 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.wicklow.ie/Portals/0/adam/Documents/BhxpCkHs5k-MB1L7X9tENg/Link/Level%206%20Donard%20Town%20Plan%202022%20-%202028.pdf ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 9 applications, newest first. - 19 Dec 2025, Wicklow County Council 2561042: Conditional. Permission. extension & renovation to existing dwelling to include; 1) demolition of existing roof and chimneys with new roof structure and finish, 2) erection of single storey flat roof extension to the front of the existing dwelling, 3) erection of single storey flat roof porch extension to the rear of the existing dwelling, 4) external insulation to the existing dwelling, 5) alterations to existing front, rear & side elevations, 6) relocation of existing site entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561042/0 - 4 Sept 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560697: Conditional. Permission. change of house type on site Nos. 1 – 8 inclusive in previously granted residential development (Ref. 21/730) comprising of 2 No. 3-bedroom detached dormer dwellings & 6 No. 3 bedroom semi-detached dormer dwellings in lieu of 2 No. 2-bedroom bungalows & 6 No. 2-bedroom semi-detached bungalows. All ancillary site development works including estate road, vehicular entrance, services infrastructure, landscaped public open spaces & boundary treatment will be as previously granted permission under Ref. 21/730. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560697/0 - 31 Jul 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560585: N/a. Permission. proposed change of house type on Site Nos. 1 – 8 inclusive in previously granted residential development (Ref. 21/730) comprising of 2 No. 3-bedroom detached dormer dwellings & 6 No. 3 bedroom semi-detached dormer dwellings in lieu of 2 No. 2-bedroom bungalows & 6 No. 2-bedroom semi-detached bungalows. All ancillary site development works including estate road, vehicular entrance, services infrastructure, landscaped public open spaces & boundary treatment will be as previously granted permission under Ref. 21/730. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560585/0 - 22 Jun 2021, Wicklow County Council 21730: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. proposed residential development (8 dwellings) comprising of 2 no. 2 bedroom detached bungalows & 6 no. 2-bedroom semi-detached bungalows & ancillary site development works including estate road, vehicular entrance, services infrastructure, landscaped public open spaces & boundary treatment. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/21730/0 - 27 May 2021, Wicklow County Council 21624: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. internal alterations and change of use from commercial to residential , to provide for a 2 bedroom dwelling house. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/21624/0 - 20 Feb 2020, Wicklow County Council 20166: Conditional. Permission, 4 homes. four detached dwellings with connection to services, roads, footpaths, public lighting, open space and landscaping, boundaries and boundary treatments, entrances and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/20166/0 - 6 Aug 2019, Wicklow County Council 19856: N/a. Permission, 4 homes. four detached dwellings with connection to services, road, footpaths, public lighting, open space and landscaping, boundaries and boundary treatments, entrances and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/19856/0 - 22 May 2018, Wicklow County Council 18547: N/a. Permission, 1 home. development of seven detached dwellings with connection to services, road, footpaths, public lighting, open space and landscaping, boundary treatments, entrance and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/18547/0 - 29 Mar 2018, Wicklow County Council 18325: Conditional. Permission. 497 sqm cattle shed with slatted tanks and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/18325/0 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 Donard Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI021-004: Ogham stone (present location), https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI021-004----. Recorded as 'just near' another (uninscribed) stone (WI021-082----) 'on the farm called Old Mills, south of the village of Donard' (Macalister 1945, 52, no. 48; Corlett and Weaver 2002, 541), this ogham stone was moved to its present location in 1995, having been placed for a time at an interim location north of Donard (marked 'Ogham Stone' on the OS 6-inch map (WI021-083----)). It is a rectangular block of stone (dims. 1.52m x 0.68m x 0.53m). Macalister (1897, 77) describes the inscription as 'much worn and damaged. . . After it turns on to the top [after the I of KOI] nothing definite can be stated'. He read the inscription as IAQINI KOI MAQI MUC ... .' (Grogan and Kilfeather 1997, no. 1007) This stone has been studied as part of the ‘Ogham in 3D’ project undertaken by the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. To access details go to the following website: https://ogham.celt.dias.ie/search.php?ciic=48 Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 3 September 2016 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 118/1940). 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) - House, 1830–1850, Regional interest, registry number 16311001, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WI®no=16311001. End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey house, built c.1840. The façade is finished in painted roughcast whilst the gable-ended pitched roof is covered in artificial slate and has rendered chimneystacks. The entrance consists of a timber and glazed replacement door and the flat-headed windows have one over one timber sash frames. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The house faces onto a street but is separated from it by a small garden enclosed by a low rendered wall. - House, 1830–1850, Regional interest, registry number 16311002, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WI®no=16311002. Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c.1840. The façade is finished in painted render whilst the pitched roof is covered in artificial slate and has rendered chimneystacks. The entrance consists of a timber door and the flat-headed windows have one over one and two over two timber sash frames. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The house faces onto a street but is separated from it by a small garden enclosed by a low rendered wall. - Handball alley, 1920–1940, Regional interest, registry number 16311003, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WI®no=16311003. Freestanding reinforced concrete handball alley, built c.1930. The walls are part painted part ivy-covered and part roughcast finished, with the tall wall to the west, sloping walls to north and to south, and the short wall to the east. There is a low open doorway to the north wall. The structure is set on the side of a street. ## 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 Donard Upper, about 1 in 10 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 Donard 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/donard-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/donard-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/donard-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Donard 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) - Donard Demesne East: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/donard-demesne-east.md - Donard Demesne West: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/donard-demesne-west.md - Donard Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/donard-lower.md - Donard Mountain: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/donard-mountain.md - Drumreagh: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/drumreagh-250658.md - Knockandarragh: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockandarragh.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/donard-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/donard-upper