Grangecon Hill
Grangecon Hill is a townland in the civil parish of Ballynure, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Cnoc Ghráinseach Choinn.
- Area
- 120.7 ha
- 298 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 4,019 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grangecon Hill, from 312 m² to 486,601 m² (48.66 ha, 120.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Grangecon Hill 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
19 Aug 2026N/a
single storey dwelling house, onsite sewerage treatment system, domestic garage, bored well, new entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2660734
12 Mar 2025Conditional
construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto public road and associate works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560163
10 Jun 2024Conditional
to construct a new pedestrian walkway to perimeter of existing community field, including the upgrade of existing footpath within the site from the public road to the children's park area, all ancillary site works and services
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460317
23 Sept 2022Conditional
dwelling house, domestic garage, O'Reilly Oaktown sewerage treatment system, new entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221033
7 Jun 2022Conditional
for retention permission for existing domestic shed and permission for a new dwelling, new entrance onto public road, blocking up of existing entrance onto public road, wastewater treatment unit and soil polishing filter for proposed dwelling, removing existing septic tank and installing a wastewater treatment unit and soil polishing filter for existing dwelling, new well and associate works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22623
2 Mar 2020Conditional
change of use (removal of condition 7a of Planning Register Reference 99/199) from restricted use as a dwelling to use by all classes of persons
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20202
22 Jul 2019Conditional
single storey dwelling house, garage, proprietary treatment system, associated percolation area, bored well, site entrance, all ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19791
25 May 2018Conditional
domestic garage and all ancillary site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18569
9 Oct 2017Conditional
two storey detached house, single storey detached garage, septic tank and percolation area, recessed entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 171227
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 Grangecon Hill.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Grangecon Hill.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Grangecon Hill.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Grangecon Hill, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Grangecon Hill.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Grangecon Hill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Grangecon Hill · Cnoc Ghráinseach Choinn
- Area
- 1,206,705 m² (120.67 ha, 298.18 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballynure, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Upper
- Electoral division
- The Grange, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 472 people lived in 167 households in the The Grange electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyhook, Grangecon Lower, Grangecon Parks, Grangecon Upper, Knockarigg, Knockarigg Demesne, Rathbran
- Placenames
- Grangecon Hill 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.