Highpark Upper

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Highpark Upper, from 96 m² to 223,840 m² (22.38 ha, 55.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Highpark 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.

• 1 Jul 2026Conditional

  decommission our existing septic tank and replace it with a proprietary waste water treatment unit with a polishing filter

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660598

• 15 Mar 2021Conditional

  single storey extension to the rear of existing three storey facility, connection to onsite services and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21274

• 3 Mar 2021N/a

  single storey extension to the rear of existing three storey facility, connection to onsite services and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21211

• 22 May 2020Conditional

  installation of 146 solar PV panels on the roof of the Nursing Unit

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20472

• 30 Mar 2020N/a

  installation of 146 Solar PV panels on the roof of an existing building

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20313

• 22 Aug 2018Conditional

  erection of wood store for chipped willow and wood biomass and associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18951

• 30 Apr 2018Conditional

  115 solar PV panels on the roof of two existing buildings

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18450

• 9 Apr 2018N/a

  installation of 115 solar pv panels on the roof of two existing buildings

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18355

• 12 Feb 2018N/a

  115 solar pv panels on the roof of two existing buildings

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18135

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 Highpark Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Highpark Upper.

Architectural heritage

• House of Our Lady of Africa, country house, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement country house with flanking single-storey pavilions, built c.1750. The façade is finished in painted lined render with moulded surrounds to the openings and a moulded eaves course. The gable-ended pitched roof is covered in artificial slate and has Velux windows and rendered chimneystacks. The pavilions (which are linked to the main block by means of quadrant walls) have slated hipped roofs. The entrance consists of a panelled timber double door, panelled pilaster jambs and relatively large sidelights with four over four timber sash frames, whilst above is a semi-circular fanlight with ‘spoke’ tracery, encased with a moulded archivolt and expansive surround with spider’s web moulding. The windows are largely flat-headed and all are filled with replacement uPVC frames. The light well to the front of the building is enclosed with decorative cast-iron railings. The country house is set within what was originally its own demesne, however, this was acquired by a missionary society in 1932 and various mid to late 20th-century buildings now occupy the grounds including a large college building just to the east of the former house itself.

• House of Our Lady of Africa, monument, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding granite monument erected c.1800 by Edward Westby (1755-1838) to the memory of Nicholas Westby MP (1751-1800). The monument consists of a square panelled plinth with inscribed plaque, which is surmounted by a stepped pinnacle with urn-like finial. The monument is surrounded by simple metal railings and is set in a field to the south of the House of Our Lady of Africa [High Park] which was originally the home of the Westby family.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

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

Name

Highpark Upper · Coill na Cluanach Uachtarach

Area

746,092 m² (74.61 ha, 184.36 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltegan, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Rathdangan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathdangan electoral division: 498 people in 152 households; 91% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykilmurry Upper, Borkill Beg, Highpark Lower, Killamoat Upper

Placenames

Highpark 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.