Garrymore Upper

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garrymore Upper, from 1,077 m² to 266,645 m² (26.66 ha, 65.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

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.

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

• 27 Sept 2023Conditional

  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)

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360313

• 28 Oct 2022Conditional

  proposed dwelling, wastewater treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 221142

• 26 Apr 2022Conditional

  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

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22446

• 12 Oct 2021Conditional

  dwelling, garage, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, entrance and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211226

• 13 Dec 2019Conditional

  dwelling, wastewater treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 191339

• 11 Mar 2019Conditional

  111 sqm two storey extension to 78 sqm dwelling, new front porch, new wastewater treatment system to EPA standards, revised entrance and associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 19258

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Garrymore Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WI030-009 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Garrymore 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

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 Garrymore Upper.

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.

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.

Name

Garrymore Upper · An Garraí Mór Uachtarach

Area

714,765 m² (71.48 ha, 176.62 acres)

Civil parish

Rathdrum, and its townlands

Barony

Ballinacor North

Electoral division

Rathdrum, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyknockan Lower, Ballyknockan Upper, Ballyteige, Corballis Upper, Garrymore Lower, Knockadosan

Placenames

Garrymore 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.