# Dunbur Upper, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilpoole, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Dún Borr Uachtarach.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,588,616 m² (158.86 ha, 392.56 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,668 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential, the zone with the most parcels
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilpoole, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/kilpoole.md
- Barony: Arklow
- Electoral division: Wicklow Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55755
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250663
- Centre: latitude 52.958082, longitude -6.016527 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunbur Upper, from 88 m² to 448,256 m² (44.83 ha, 110.77 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1274902: 448,256 m² (44.83 ha, 110.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1274902.md
- Parcel 1288690: 441,569 m² (44.16 ha, 109.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288690.md
- Parcel 1277548: 407,486 m² (40.75 ha, 100.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277548.md
- Parcel 1263577: 60,755 m² (6.08 ha, 15.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1263577.md
- Parcel 1281960: 55,335 m² (5.53 ha, 13.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281960.md
- Parcel 2683054: 40,655 m² (4.07 ha, 10.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2683054.md
- Parcel 1277233: 34,129 m² (3.41 ha, 8.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277233.md
- Parcel 1267770: 26,363 m² (2.64 ha, 6.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1267770.md
- Parcel 1284039: 21,081 m² (2.11 ha, 5.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1284039.md
- Parcel 1286491: 8,803 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1286491.md
- Parcel 1278058: 7,306 m² (0.73 ha, 1.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278058.md
- Parcel 5257882: 7,233 m² (0.72 ha, 1.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5257882.md
- Parcel 1279152: 4,305 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1279152.md
- Parcel 1273580: 4,230 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1273580.md
- Parcel 1267006: 2,772 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1267006.md
- Parcel 1271205: 2,563 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271205.md
- Parcel 1288432: 2,543 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288432.md
- Parcel 1277705: 2,463 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277705.md
- Parcel 1283448: 2,440 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1283448.md
- Parcel 1284406: 2,409 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1284406.md
- Parcel 1298726: 2,200 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1298726.md
- Parcel 1289431: 2,186 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289431.md
- Parcel 1276084: 2,118 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1276084.md
- Parcel 2656593: 2,099 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2656593.md
- Parcel 5393213: 2,059 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5393213.md
- Parcel 1297800: 1,936 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1297800.md
- Parcel 1287818: 1,337 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1287818.md
- Parcel 1273967: 327 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1273967.md
- Parcel 1260228: 258 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1260228.md
- Parcel 1265471: 88 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1265471.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

- R2 Existing Residential (Existing residential): Wicklow Town - Rathnew Local Area Plan, Wicklow; 6 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.wicklow.ie/Living/Services/Planning/Development-Plans-Strategies/Local-Area-Town-Settlement-Plans/Wicklow-Town-Rathnew/Wicklow-Town-Rathnew-Local-Area-Plan-2025-2031
- G4 Active Open Space (Active open space): Wicklow Town - Rathnew Local Area Plan, Wicklow; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.wicklow.ie/Living/Services/Planning/Development-Plans-Strategies/Local-Area-Town-Settlement-Plans/Wicklow-Town-Rathnew/Wicklow-Town-Rathnew-Local-Area-Plan-2025-2031
- G1 Open Space (Open space, park): Wicklow Town - Rathnew Local Area Plan, Wicklow; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.wicklow.ie/Living/Services/Planning/Development-Plans-Strategies/Local-Area-Town-Settlement-Plans/Wicklow-Town-Rathnew/Wicklow-Town-Rathnew-Local-Area-Plan-2025-2031
- G3 Natural Areas (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): Wicklow Town - Rathnew Local Area Plan, Wicklow; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.wicklow.ie/Living/Services/Planning/Development-Plans-Strategies/Local-Area-Town-Settlement-Plans/Wicklow-Town-Rathnew/Wicklow-Town-Rathnew-Local-Area-Plan-2025-2031

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

3 applications, newest first.

- 17 Sept 2026, Wicklow County Council 2660837: N/a. Retention. extensions comprising sunroom at rear and self contained living unit to side. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660837/0
- 5 Sept 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560703: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560703/0
- 3 Nov 2017, Wicklow County Council 171331: Conditional. Retention. stone / gravel road base to existing tracks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/171331/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Wicklow Head, site code 000734

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dunbur Upper.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dunbur 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 Dunbur 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 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3406.zip (ZIP).
- 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/dunbur-upper.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/dunbur-upper.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/dunbur-upper.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

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: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Dunbur Head: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/dunbur-head.md
- Dunbur Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/dunbur-lower.md
- Kilpoole Hill: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/kilpoole-hill.md
- Kilpoole Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/kilpoole-lower.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.

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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.

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