Kilcarney Upper
Kilcarney Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Hacketstown, barony of Ballinacor South, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Cill Charnaí Uachtarach.
- Area
- 167.3 ha
- 414 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 17,301 m² (1.73 ha, 4.28 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcarney Upper, from 271 m² to 504,824 m² (50.48 ha, 124.74 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 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
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
19 Mar 2019Conditional
forest access road entrance
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 19292
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilcarney Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilcarney Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilcarney 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Kilcarney Upper, 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 Upper.
- 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 Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Kilcarney Upper · Cill Charnaí Uachtarach
- Area
- 1,673,440 m² (167.34 ha, 413.52 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
- Carrignamweel, Kilcarney Lower, Knockanooker Lower, Knocknagilky Upper, Rathcoyle Lower, Slievenamough, Slievenamough Plain
- Placenames
- Kilcarney 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.