# Griffinstown Upper, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballynure, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Ghrífín Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,021,914 m² (102.19 ha, 252.52 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 21,970 m² (2.2 ha, 5.43 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballynure, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/ballynure.md - Barony: Talbotstown Upper - Electoral division: The Grange, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54972 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250757 - Centre: latitude 53.013929, longitude -6.721676 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Griffinstown Upper, from 61 m² to 245,162 m² (24.52 ha, 60.58 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1298863: 245,162 m² (24.52 ha, 60.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1298863.md - Parcel 4870682: 155,274 m² (15.53 ha, 38.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4870682.md - Parcel 1283252: 148,613 m² (14.86 ha, 36.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1283252.md - Parcel 1273337: 129,229 m² (12.92 ha, 31.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1273337.md - Parcel 2657190: 81,851 m² (8.19 ha, 20.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2657190.md - Parcel 1289334: 62,196 m² (6.22 ha, 15.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289334.md - Parcel 1285196: 49,690 m² (4.97 ha, 12.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285196.md - Parcel 2657101: 46,967 m² (4.7 ha, 11.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2657101.md - Parcel 2657189: 37,685 m² (3.77 ha, 9.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2657189.md - Parcel 1283251: 28,034 m² (2.8 ha, 6.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1283251.md - Parcel 1292365: 15,906 m² (1.59 ha, 3.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1292365.md - Parcel 3599424: 6,626 m² (0.66 ha, 1.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3599424.md - Parcel 4938700: 4,919 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4938700.md - Parcel 1297631: 3,847 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1297631.md - Parcel 1278486: 2,074 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278486.md - Parcel 1294545: 1,299 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1294545.md - Parcel 4938658: 666 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4938658.md - Parcel 1299925: 485 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1299925.md - Parcel 4938651: 468 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4938651.md - Parcel 4938649: 61 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4938649.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Griffinstown 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) 1 application, newest first. - 3 Mar 2017, Wicklow County Council 17224: N/a. Permission. dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area to EPA recommendations, alterations to existing entrance, domestic garage and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/17224/0 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 Griffinstown Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI020-029: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI020-029----. Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 16m) with possible entrance gap at ENE visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 02 April 2019 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 Griffinstown Upper. ## 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 Griffinstown Upper, 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 low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Griffinstown 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/griffinstown-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/griffinstown-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/griffinstown-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Griffinstown 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) - Ballyhook: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyhook.md - Crossoge: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/crossoge.md - Grangecon Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/grangecon-lower.md - Griffinstown Hill: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/griffinstown-hill.md - Griffinstown Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/griffinstown-lower.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/griffinstown-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/griffinstown-upper