Hawkstown Upper

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hawkstown Upper, from 2,291 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres) to 290,858 m² (29.09 ha, 71.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.

• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Wicklow Town - Rathnew Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Wicklow Town - Rathnew Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 10 Jul 2024Unconditional

  Part 8 to construct 54 No. Social Housing Units and all associated works. The accommodation shall consist of the following : 14 No. three bedroom two storey housing units, 16 No. two bedroom two storey housing units, 22 No. one bedroom apartments in a two storey unit and 2 No. one bedroom single storey housing units, (For Submission & Observation details please see Site Notice)

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 24311

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 Hawkstown Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Hawkstown Upper.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Hawkstown 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 Hawkstown Upper, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3390 (ZIP).

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 Hawkstown Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Hawkstown Upper · Baile Sheabhaic Uachtarach

Area

1,007,325 m² (100.73 ha, 248.92 acres)

Civil parish

Drumkay, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Wicklow Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

10,247 people lived in 3,334 households in the Wicklow Rural electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinaclogh, Ballygonnell, Ballynabarny, Ballynerrin Upper, Hawkstown Lower

Placenames

Hawkstown 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.