Kilcarney Lower
Kilcarney Lower is a townland in the civil parish of Hacketstown, barony of Ballinacor South, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Cill Charnaí Íochtarach.
- Area
- 171.2 ha
- 423 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 8,324 m² (0.83 ha, 2.06 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcarney Lower, from 64 m² to 276,009 m² (27.6 ha, 68.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kilcarney Lower 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
16 Aug 2023Conditional
for the construction of a new dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto public road and associate works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360221
3 Sept 2021Conditional
demolish an existing single storey dwelling and construct a proposed new single storey dwelling, new septic tank and percolation area, connection to existing well, use of existing entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211092
9 Aug 2021N/a
demolish an existing single storey dwelling and construct a proposed new single storey dwelling, new septic tank & percolation area, connection to existing well, use of existing entrance & all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21982
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
Recorded monuments
- WI033-001 Enclosure
Description
Situated on level ground in gently undulating terrain. A roughly square site (dims. c. 30m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by a scarp on the W, N and E sides, with traces of a possible hut site (int. dims. c. 4m x 2m) in the interior. Shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. Now covered by forestry. 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
- WI033-001001 Hut site
Description
Situated on level ground in gently undulating terrain. A roughly square site (WI033-001----) with traces of a possible hut site (int. dims. c. 4m x 2m) in the interior. Shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. Now covered by forestry. 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. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 08 October 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilcarney Lower.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Kilcarney Lower, about 1 in 5 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilcarney Lower.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kilcarney Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Kilcarney Lower · Cill Charnaí Íochtarach
- Area
- 1,711,836 m² (171.18 ha, 423 acres)
- Civil parish
- Hacketstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor South
- Electoral division
- Rathdangan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 498 people lived in 152 households in the Rathdangan electoral division. 91% of households owned 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 Lower, Kilcarney Upper, Knocknagilky Lower, Knocknagilky Upper, Rathcoyle Lower, Rathduffbeg, Rathduffmore
- Placenames
- Kilcarney Lower 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.