Easthill
Townland in the civil parish of Upper Newcastle, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Cnoc Thiar
- Area
- 29.7 ha
- 73 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 5,321 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Easthill, from 5,273 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres) to 88,855 m² (8.89 ha, 21.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Easthill 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
16 Apr 2025Conditional
erection of a detached 2-storey house with vehicular access via existing site entrance, car parking and patio areas, the installation of a new waste water treatment system and a domestic well, and all associated/ancillary site works, including a change of ground levels on this site. Retention planning permission is also sought for an existing domestic shed and tarmac driveway surfaces, required to serve the proposed dwelling
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560290
11 Apr 2025N/a
the erection of a detached 2-storey house with vehicular access via existing site entrance, car parking and patio areas, the installation of a new waste water treatment system and a domestic well, and all associated/ancillary site works, including a change of ground levels on this site. Retention planning permission is also sought for an existing domestic shed and tarmac driveway surfaces, required to serve the proposed dwelling
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560276
5 Mar 2024Refused
the erection of one detached house containing three floor levels and providing three bedrooms, an open plan kitchen / dining / living area along with ancillary bathroom, hallway and utility accommodation, the installation of a Sepcon 2000 secondary sewage treatment system and polishing filter, the drilling of a well for domestic water supply purposes, the shared use of an existing vehicular entrance and driveway (the latter of which is to be extended) off Glendarragh Lane, the provision of a garden, a private driveway into the site itself and a car parking area, as well as all associated or ancillary site works, including a change of ground levels
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460121
23 Feb 2024N/a
the erection of one detached house containing three floor levels and providing three bedrooms, an open plan kitchen / dining / living area along with ancillary bathroom, hallway and utility accommodation, the installation of a Sepcon 2000 secondary sewage treatment system and polishing filter, the drilling of a well for domestic water supply purposes, the shared use of an existing vehicular entrance and driveway (the latter of which is to be extended) off Glendarragh Lane, the provision of a garden, a private driveway into the site itself and a car parking area, as well as all associated or ancillary site works, including a change of ground levels
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460103
15 Oct 2019Conditional
extensions and alterations to existing house to include single storey extension and carport and all associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 191123
7 Nov 2018Conditional
dwelling house with detached domestic garage, waste water treatment unit, including well, alterations to existing entrance, drainage and landscaping including all associated works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 181238
1 Nov 2018Refused
two storey, four bedroom dwelling, wastewater treatment system and all associated ancillary works necessary to facilitate the development
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 181218
21 Feb 2017Conditional
part single, part two storey, three bedroom dwelling, provision of a new wastewater treatment system, and all associated ancillary works necessary to facilitate this development. The dwelling will be accessed via an existing vehicular entrance on the local road
Permission, 50 homes · Wicklow County Council, 17190
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Easthill.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Easthill.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Easthill.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Easthill.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Easthill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Easthill · An Cnoc Thiar
- Area
- 297,069 m² (29.71 ha, 73.41 acres)
- Civil parish
- Upper Newcastle, and its townlands
- Barony
- Newcastle
- Electoral division
- Altidore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Altidore electoral division: 388 people in 139 households; 86% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cooladoyle, Glendarragh, Kilmurry, Merepark, Mount Kennedy Demesne, Seasonpark
- Placenames
- Easthill 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.