Kilcavan Upper

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcavan Upper, from 546 m² to 276,797 m² (27.68 ha, 68.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Kilcavan 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.

• 7 Oct 2021Refused

  construct a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic garage and install sewage treatment system to EPA guidelines with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211209

• 26 Sept 2017Conditional

  to erect a single storey dwelling with services and domestic garage and all associated site and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 171164

• 13 Apr 2017N/a

  single storey dwelling with services and domestic garage and all associated site and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17411

• 20 Mar 2017Refused

  existing timber framed self contained living unit, domestic store, site entrance, septic tank and all associated site ancillary works for use as a temporary residence for a period of five years

  Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17288

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 Kilcavan Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WI047-006001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a very gentle W-facing slope overlooking a stream, in pasture. The church and enclosure (WI047-006002-) depicted on the 1838 OS 6-inch map and named 'Site of Kilcavan Church'. The remains were described in the OS Letters (1838) as a pile of stones (O'Flanagan 1928, 38). An area of raised ground appears to indicate the location of the church. A crude Latin cross (WI047-006003-) has been incorporated in the field boundary immediately to the S of the church. 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: 19 November 2012

• WI047-006002 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  On a very gentle W-facing slope overlooking a stream. The remains of the church (WI047-006001-) and enclosure are depicted on the 1838 OS 6-inch map and named 'Site of Kilcavan Church'. The enclosure is depicted as a semi-circular area (diam. c. 28m E-W), a field boundary runs E-W through what may have been the centre of the enclosure. It is not visible at ground level. A crude Latin cross (WI047-006003-) has been incorporated in the field boundary immediately S of the church. 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: 19 November 2012

• WI047-006003 Cross
  Description

  On a very gentle W-facing slope overlooking a stream. The remains of the church (WI047-006001-) and enclosure (WI047-006002-) are depicted on the 1838 OS 6-inch map and named 'Site of Kilcavan Church'. A crude Latin cross (H 0.45m; Wth 0.4m; D 0.23m) has been incorporated into the N-face of the field boundary immediately S of the church. The field boundary (H 1m) is constructed of earth faced with stone with a ditch (Wth at top 2m; Wth at base 1.1m) running along the N side, the cross has been re-used as stone facing and is 0.3m above the 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. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 19 November 2012

• WI047-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gentle W-facing slope. Oval area (max. ext. dims. 62m N-S; 56m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1m) and an external fosse (Wth l-2m). Within the ringfort is a subrectangular enclosure (dims. 32m x 25m) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 2-2.5m; H 0.5m) with a slight fosse along the S and W sides. No indication of an entrance to either feature. 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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilcavan 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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Kilcavan 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

No address of the register names Kilcavan Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Kilcavan Upper · Cill Chaomháin Uachtarach

Area

1,375,059 m² (137.51 ha, 339.78 acres)

Civil parish

Carnew, and its townlands

Barony

Shillelagh

Electoral division

Carnew, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,873 people lived in 708 households in the Carnew electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Hillbrook Lower, Hillbrook Upper, Kennystown, Kilcavan Lower, Parkmore (Page), Paulbeg

Placenames

Kilcavan 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.