# Gibraltar, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rathbran, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Gibraltar. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 952,414 m² (95.24 ha, 235.35 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 21,692 m² (2.17 ha, 5.36 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Rathbran, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/rathbran.md - Barony: Talbotstown Upper - Electoral division: Tuckmill, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 314 people lived in 104 households in the Tuckmill electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 4% 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/55016 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250705 - Centre: latitude 52.983089, longitude -6.699847 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gibraltar, from 1,720 m² to 162,679 m² (16.27 ha, 40.2 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1293340: 162,679 m² (16.27 ha, 40.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1293340.md - Parcel 1264813: 120,926 m² (12.09 ha, 29.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1264813.md - Parcel 1256589: 97,510 m² (9.75 ha, 24.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1256589.md - Parcel 1261112: 81,633 m² (8.16 ha, 20.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1261112.md - Parcel 1265593: 53,239 m² (5.32 ha, 13.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1265593.md - Parcel 1296224: 49,408 m² (4.94 ha, 12.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1296224.md - Parcel 4910454: 48,029 m² (4.8 ha, 11.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4910454.md - Parcel 3963694: 47,040 m² (4.7 ha, 11.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3963694.md - Parcel 1268188: 45,732 m² (4.57 ha, 11.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268188.md - Parcel 5024953: 40,295 m² (4.03 ha, 9.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5024953.md - Parcel 1278595: 33,284 m² (3.33 ha, 8.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278595.md - Parcel 1285302: 29,646 m² (2.96 ha, 7.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285302.md - Parcel 1263604: 27,997 m² (2.8 ha, 6.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1263604.md - Parcel 1260198: 27,855 m² (2.79 ha, 6.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1260198.md - Parcel 1250310: 15,528 m² (1.55 ha, 3.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1250310.md - Parcel 3963651: 13,590 m² (1.36 ha, 3.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3963651.md - Parcel 5257572: 12,917 m² (1.29 ha, 3.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5257572.md - Parcel 1284813: 12,571 m² (1.26 ha, 3.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1284813.md - Parcel 1289006: 8,578 m² (0.86 ha, 2.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289006.md - Parcel 1249715: 4,508 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1249715.md - Parcel 2727333: 4,450 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2727333.md - Parcel 1292009: 3,222 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1292009.md - Parcel 3963656: 2,550 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3963656.md - Parcel 1300002: 2,494 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1300002.md - Parcel 1256352: 2,442 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1256352.md - Parcel 1276896: 2,383 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1276896.md - Parcel 1279923: 1,839 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1279923.md - Parcel 4910452: 1,720 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4910452.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gibraltar 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) 1 application, newest first. - 24 Jul 2024, Wicklow County Council 2460447: Conditional. Permission. a replacement on-site effluent treatment system and well. Retention permission for roof modifications and alterations to windows and doors on the external elevations of the existing dwelling. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460447/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC, site code 000781, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000781 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI021-043: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI021-043----. Situated on a gentle E-facing slope. Circular platform (diam. c. 45m; H c. 4.5-6m) defined by an earthen bank (H c. 4.5m) along the perimeter and an external fosse. Not visible at ground level. The site was apparently levelled before 1975. (OPW files) 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 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 123/1940). 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 Gibraltar. ## 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 Gibraltar, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2727, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2727.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/gibraltar.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/gibraltar.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/gibraltar.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gibraltar 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) - Ballyhook Hill: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyhook-hill.md - Goldenfort: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/goldenfort.md - Manger: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/manger.md - Mattymount: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/mattymount.md - Rathbran: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/rathbran.md - Saundersgrove: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/saundersgrove.md - Stratford: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/stratford.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/gibraltar - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/gibraltar