# Hawkstown Upper, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Drumkay, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Sheabhaic Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,007,325 m² (100.73 ha, 248.92 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 43,232 m² (4.32 ha, 10.68 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R1 New Residential, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Drumkay, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/drumkay.md - Barony: Arklow - Electoral division: Wicklow Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55743 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250761 - Centre: latitude 52.965958, longitude -6.078637 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 3964325: 290,858 m² (29.09 ha, 71.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3964325.md - Parcel 1294677: 178,316 m² (17.83 ha, 44.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1294677.md - Parcel 3964272: 132,711 m² (13.27 ha, 32.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3964272.md - Parcel 3964357: 101,796 m² (10.18 ha, 25.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3964357.md - Parcel 3963884: 86,875 m² (8.69 ha, 21.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3963884.md - Parcel 2473905: 65,845 m² (6.58 ha, 16.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2473905.md - Parcel 1278677: 43,232 m² (4.32 ha, 10.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278677.md - Parcel 2473919: 41,067 m² (4.11 ha, 10.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2473919.md - Parcel 1292439: 40,518 m² (4.05 ha, 10.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1292439.md - Parcel 3963883: 10,234 m² (1.02 ha, 2.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3963883.md - Parcel 2479673: 7,309 m² (0.73 ha, 1.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2479673.md - Parcel 1289430: 6,270 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289430.md - Parcel 1285247: 2,291 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285247.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - R1 New Residential (New/proposed residential): Wicklow Town - Rathnew Local Area Plan, Wicklow; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.wicklow.ie/Living/Services/Planning/Development-Plans-Strategies/Local-Area-Town-Settlement-Plans/Wicklow-Town-Rathnew/Wicklow-Town-Rathnew-Local-Area-Plan-2025-2031 - G1 Open Space (Open space, park): Wicklow Town - Rathnew Local Area Plan, Wicklow; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.wicklow.ie/Living/Services/Planning/Development-Plans-Strategies/Local-Area-Town-Settlement-Plans/Wicklow-Town-Rathnew/Wicklow-Town-Rathnew-Local-Area-Plan-2025-2031 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 10 Jul 2024, Wicklow County Council 24311: Unconditional. Permission. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/24311/0 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 Hawkstown Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Hawkstown Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Hawkstown 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 Hawkstown 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 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3390.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/hawkstown-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/hawkstown-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/hawkstown-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinaclogh: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballinaclogh.md - Ballygonnell: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballygonnell.md - Ballynabarny: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballynabarny.md - Ballynerrin Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballynerrin-upper.md - Hawkstown Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/hawkstown-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/hawkstown-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/hawkstown-upper