# Garrymore Upper, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rathdrum, barony of Ballinacor North, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Garraí Mór Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 714,765 m² (71.48 ha, 176.62 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,322 m² (0.53 ha, 1.32 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rathdrum, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/rathdrum.md - Barony: Ballinacor North - Electoral division: Rathdrum, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Rathdrum electoral division: 3,173 people in 1,108 households; 69% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 7% 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/55700 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250704 - Centre: latitude 52.925311, longitude -6.25876 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garrymore Upper, from 1,077 m² to 266,645 m² (26.66 ha, 65.89 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1269020: 266,645 m² (26.66 ha, 65.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1269020.md - Parcel 1288345: 88,098 m² (8.81 ha, 21.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288345.md - Parcel 1263568: 72,508 m² (7.25 ha, 17.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1263568.md - Parcel 1268553: 71,726 m² (7.17 ha, 17.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268553.md - Parcel 1262154: 61,406 m² (6.14 ha, 15.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262154.md - Parcel 1288344: 56,049 m² (5.6 ha, 13.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288344.md - Parcel 1260972: 53,278 m² (5.33 ha, 13.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1260972.md - Parcel 2693364: 6,461 m² (0.65 ha, 1.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2693364.md - Parcel 4442397: 5,497 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4442397.md - Parcel 1298922: 5,148 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1298922.md - Parcel 1278181: 4,754 m² (0.48 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278181.md - Parcel 4289228: 4,306 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4289228.md - Parcel 2678478: 4,228 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2678478.md - Parcel 4289148: 4,020 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4289148.md - Parcel 4881883: 3,534 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4881883.md - Parcel 5991563: 3,038 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5991563.md - Parcel 1268060: 2,992 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268060.md - Parcel 1262510: 1,077 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262510.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Garrymore Upper in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 27 Sept 2023, Wicklow County Council 2360313: Conditional. Permission. the development of grid connection infrastructure comprising the laying of c. 4.43 kilometres (4,430 metres) of 38kV underground electricity cables in ducts and associated infrastructure substantially under public roads to connect the solar photovoltaic (“PV”) energy development on lands at Garrymore Upper, Rathdrum Co. Wicklow approved under Register Reference 16/1099: PL 27.247942 to a new electricity substation adjacent to the ESB Rathdrum 38kV Substation to the south of Zoetis Belgium SA, The Copse, Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow (part of site that is subject to an Industrial Emissions Licence). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360313/0 - 28 Oct 2022, Wicklow County Council 221142: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. proposed dwelling, wastewater treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/221142/0 - 26 Apr 2022, Wicklow County Council 22446: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. change of use (removal of planning condition no. 2 of planning ref no. 93/688) from restricted use as a dwelling to use by all classes of persons. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/22446/0 - 12 Oct 2021, Wicklow County Council 211226: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. dwelling, garage, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, entrance and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/211226/0 - 13 Dec 2019, Wicklow County Council 191339: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. dwelling, wastewater treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/191339/0 - 11 Mar 2019, Wicklow County Council 19258: Conditional. Permission. 111 sqm two storey extension to 78 sqm dwelling, new front porch, new wastewater treatment system to EPA standards, revised entrance and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/19258/0 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 Garrymore Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI030-009: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI030-009----. Situated on a gentle SE-facing slope. Circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) marked on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. Not visible at ground level, and not remembered locally. 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 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Garrymore Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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 Garrymore 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/garrymore-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/garrymore-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/garrymore-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Garrymore 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) - Ballyknockan Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyknockan-lower.md - Ballyknockan Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyknockan-upper.md - Ballyteige: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyteige-250326.md - Corballis Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/corballis-upper.md - Garrymore Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/garrymore-lower.md - Knockadosan: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockadosan.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/garrymore-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/garrymore-upper