# Holdenstown Upper, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Baltinglass, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile Shealtúin Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 982,147 m² (98.21 ha, 242.69 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 18,184 m² (1.82 ha, 4.49 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Baltinglass, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/baltinglass.md - Barony: Talbotstown Upper - Electoral division: Baltinglass, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Baltinglass electoral division: 3,029 people in 1,075 households; 64% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54600 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250769 - Centre: latitude 52.908874, longitude -6.683454 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Holdenstown Upper, from 928 m² to 148,781 m² (14.88 ha, 36.76 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1289020: 148,781 m² (14.88 ha, 36.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289020.md - Parcel 1268756: 141,424 m² (14.14 ha, 34.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268756.md - Parcel 1268755: 140,171 m² (14.02 ha, 34.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268755.md - Parcel 1288619: 128,058 m² (12.81 ha, 31.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288619.md - Parcel 1268759: 81,377 m² (8.14 ha, 20.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268759.md - Parcel 1268758: 64,470 m² (6.45 ha, 15.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268758.md - Parcel 1268767: 62,351 m² (6.24 ha, 15.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268767.md - Parcel 1288616: 44,403 m² (4.44 ha, 10.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288616.md - Parcel 1288618: 44,022 m² (4.4 ha, 10.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288618.md - Parcel 5245533: 33,425 m² (3.34 ha, 8.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5245533.md - Parcel 1288620: 21,460 m² (2.15 ha, 5.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288620.md - Parcel 1288621: 18,184 m² (1.82 ha, 4.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288621.md - Parcel 5233527: 8,086 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5233527.md - Parcel 2657259: 7,386 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2657259.md - Parcel 1299953: 4,121 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1299953.md - Parcel 1284830: 3,403 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1284830.md - Parcel 1279065: 3,093 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1279065.md - Parcel 1297688: 2,145 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1297688.md - Parcel 1298897: 2,124 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1298897.md - Parcel 5245534: 1,756 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5245534.md - Parcel 5451212: 1,625 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5451212.md - Parcel 1262238: 942 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262238.md - Parcel 1278654: 928 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278654.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Holdenstown 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) 6 applications, newest first. - 10 Aug 2020, Wicklow County Council 20765: Conditional. Permission. to construct single storey extension to the rear / side of existing dwelling house, to carry out alterations to the existing dwelling house to accommodate same including alterations to the existing elevations, full planning permission is sought to upgrade septic tank on site including new percolation area to accommodate proposed works, all ancillary site works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/20765/0 - 4 Aug 2020, Wicklow County Council 20749: Conditional. Permission. alteration of site boundary of existing bungalow as granted under Pl Ref: 97/6983, all ancillary site works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/20749/0 - 19 Feb 2020, Wicklow County Council 20157: Conditional. Permission. cow cubicle shed, slurry tank, cattle crush / yard associated site works. Development is within the curtilage of a protected structure. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/20157/0 - 6 Feb 2020, Wicklow County Council 20112: N/a. Permission. cow cubicle shed, slurry tank and cattle crush / yard. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/20112/0 - 23 Dec 2019, Wicklow County Council 191387: Conditional. Retention. single storey extension as constructed to the side of existing bungalow as granted under Planning Ref 97/6983 and retention is sought to retain domestic garage as constructed to the side of existing dwelling, all ancillary site works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/191387/0 - 3 Jul 2018, Wicklow County Council 18747: Conditional. Permission. alteration and additions to the existing two storey dwelling will consist of a two storey extension to the side, single storey extensions to the front and rear, demolition of an existing outbuilding, installation of new effluent treatment system to EPA 2009 and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/18747/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC, site code 000781, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000781 - Special Area of Conservation: Holdenstown Bog SAC, site code 001757, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001757 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Holdenstown Bog, site code 001757 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI027-063: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI027-063----. Situated on the edge of a ridge overlooking a steep NE-facing slope. Rectangular enclosure (max. dims. 40m x 45m) shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008 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) - Holdenstown Lodge, farm house, 1810–1830, Regional interest, registry number 16402712, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WI®no=16402712. Detached three-bay two-storey double-pile "developed vernacular" farmhouse with three-bay single to one and a half-storey part outbuilding section, built c.1820, but extended to the rear with the addition of a two-bay two-storey portion and small two-bay single-storey projection in c.1870. The walls are partly finished in painted roughcast with smooth render surrounds to the front windows, whilst much of the rear elevation is in squared rubble with dressed granite surrounds to some of the openings. The gable-ended roof is slated and has rendered chimneystacks. The entrance consists of c.1950s partly glazed replacement timber door. The windows are flat-headed and have one over one timber sash frames to the rear elevation and replacement timber frames to the front. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The farmhouse is part of a small farmyard complex containing two and single-storey outbuildings mainly dating from the latter half of the 19th century and early 20th century. These buildings are constructed in either rubble or squared granite and most have gable-ended slated roofs, with a curved corrugated metal roof to one building. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2770, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2770.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/holdenstown-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/holdenstown-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/holdenstown-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Holdenstown 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) - Broughillstown (Co. Carlow): https://everytownland.com/carlow/broughillstown.md - Holdenstown Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/holdenstown-lower.md - Kilmurry Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/kilmurry-upper-250885.md - Mountneill (Co. Carlow): https://everytownland.com/carlow/mountneill.md - Rahill (Co. Carlow): https://everytownland.com/carlow/rahill.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/holdenstown-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/holdenstown-upper