Dunbur Upper

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunbur Upper, from 88 m² to 448,256 m² (44.83 ha, 110.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Wicklow Town - Rathnew Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Active Open Space (Active open space)
  Wicklow Town - Rathnew Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Wicklow Town - Rathnew Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Natural Areas (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Wicklow Town - Rathnew Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 17 Sept 2026N/a

  extensions comprising sunroom at rear and self contained living unit to side

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2660837

• 5 Sept 2025Conditional

  1. permission for the retention of a. change of use of boathouse to a 1-bedroom living unit. At the time of acquisition, the on-site boathouse had already been converted to residential unit. b. reinstatement of the original vehicular entrance as constructed. In 2010 , the Town Council carried out road works adjacent to the property, during which a wider temporary access was opened in my clients driveway to facilitate machinery storage. This entrance was thereafter used, by tenants in preference to the original gateway, which became overgrown. 2. permission for extension of the main dwelling and upgraded wastewater treatment system to serve the main dwelling and 1-bedroom living unit at Bedrock House, Dunbur Upper, Dunbur, Co. Wicklow A67EC42. Permission is also sought for the construction of a three-storey extension to a different main dwelling, comprising a footprint of 70.9 sq.m, a total floor area of 212.7 sq.m and height of 7.48 m.

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560703

• 3 Nov 2017Conditional

  stone / gravel road base to existing tracks

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 171331

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Wicklow Head 000734

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dunbur Upper.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dunbur 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 Dunbur Upper, about 1 in 10 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3406 (ZIP).

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

Name

Dunbur Upper · Dún Borr Uachtarach

Area

1,588,616 m² (158.86 ha, 392.56 acres)

Civil parish

Kilpoole, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Wicklow Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

10,247 people lived in 3,334 households in the Wicklow Rural electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dunbur Head, Dunbur Lower, Kilpoole Hill, Kilpoole Lower

Placenames

Dunbur 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.