Granabeg Upper

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Granabeg Upper, from 121 m² to 203,765 m² (20.38 ha, 50.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Granabeg 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.

• 5 Mar 2024Conditional

  bungalow, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and ancillary works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 24105

• 28 Nov 2023N/a

  bungalow, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and ancillary works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23870

• 15 Nov 2022N/a

  bungalow, domestic garage, effluent treatment and ancillary works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221212

• 9 Sept 2022Conditional

  a) proposed dimension stone granite quarry with an extraction area of c. 0.7 hectares. b) Proposed site access and all ancillary site works within an application area of c. 1.5 hectares

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22979

• 27 Sept 2021Conditional

  dwelling, garage, on-site treatment unit, well, widening of existing entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211168

• 27 Oct 2020Conditional

  bungalow, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 201075

• 14 May 2019N/a

  storey and a half dwelling, new vehicle entrance, domestic garage, treatment system and percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19513

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 Granabeg Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WI016-005 Cross-inscribed pillar
  Description

  Situated on a marked N-facing slope on the edge of a narrow shallow valley. Granite pillar (H 0.63m; Wth 0.35m; T 0.22m) with a cross inscribed in outline on the N face. The pillar is set in a low cairn (diam. 1.5m; H 0.6m) c. 200m W of a graveyard (WI016-006----). 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

• WI016-006 Burial ground
  Description

  Situated on a gentle to marked W-facing slope. Quadrangular enclosure (dims. 35m NW-SE; 12m (at the NW) - 17m (at the SE)) defined by a low tumbled stone wall, except at the NW where a forestry track encroaches on the site. No indication of an entrance; the interior is stony and uneven. It is marked as 'Grave Yard' on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. A stone inscribed pillar (WI016-005----) stands c. 200m to the W. 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

• WI016-008 Cross-inscribed pillar
  Description

  Situated close to a stream just N of the main road. Granite pillar with a Latin cross in low relief described by Price (1940, 258-9). Not located. 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 Granabeg 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

At the centre of the townland of Granabeg Upper, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Granabeg Upper.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Granabeg Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Granabeg Upper · An Ghreanach Bheag Uachtarach

Area

980,501 m² (98.05 ha, 242.29 acres)

Civil parish

Boystown, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Lower

Electoral division

Togher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

387 people lived in 129 households in the Togher electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Granabeg Lower, Granamore, Lockstown Upper, Togher

Placenames

Granabeg 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.