Killahurler Lower
Killahurler Lower is a townland in the civil parish of Killahurler, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Cill Achaidh Urláir Íochtarach.
- Area
- 98 ha
- 242 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 4,828 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killahurler Lower, from 290 m² to 324,098 m² (32.41 ha, 80.09 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 Killahurler 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
26 Sept 2022Conditional
construction of: (1) a new dairy cow road underpass with soiled water sump tank with new farm roadways, (2) a new milking parlour with dairy, drafting area and covered collecting yard with an internal precast concrete slatted channel, (3) a new underground precast concrete covered channel connected to the existing channel to discharge slurry to the existing geo-membrane lined slurry store, (4) a new meal bin, (5) a new concrete apron, (6) removal of the existing horse sand arena wooden fence, (7) removal of the existing external milk cooling tank, (8) decommission of the existing milking parlour and collecting yard, (9) removal of the existing farm entrance side walls and hedges to create wider farm entrance and for a setback of the western roadside hedge to provide sufficient sightlines on both sides, and (10) retention permission for the existing geo-membrane lined slurry store (11) and all associated site development works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221040
28 Jul 2021Refused
construction of : (1) a new dairy cow road underpass with new farm roadways, (2) a new milking parlour with dairy and dafting area, (3) a new open collecting yard with an external slatted tank, (4) a new meal bin, (5) a new pipeline to the existing geo-membrane lined slurry store, (6) a new concrete apron, (7) removal of the existing horse sand arena wooden fence, (8) removal of the existing external milk cooling tank, (9) decommission of the existing milking parlour and collecting yard, (10) removal of the existing farm entrance side walls and hedges to create wider farm entrance and for a setback of the western roadside hedge to provide sufficient sightlines on both sides, (11) all associated site development works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21936
14 Jul 2021Refused
a dormer bungalow with onsite waste-water treatment and percolation area including driveway, bore well, improvements to existing entrance, landscaping and boundary treatment and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21841
20 Nov 2020N/a
dormer bungalow with onsite waste-water treatment and percolation area including driveway, bore well, improvements to existing entrance, landscaping and boundary treatment and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 201171
12 Nov 2018Conditional
converted attic space as constructed in my dwelling
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 181259
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 Killahurler Lower.
Recorded monuments
- WI040-023 Burial mound
Description
Situated on a gentle N-facing slope. Steep-sided circular mound (diam. 16m; H 2.8-4m) defined by a fosse (Wth 2-4m; D 0.4m). Part of the centre and the E side have been removed through quarrying. An urn was allegedly found here in the 19th century (Waddell 1990, 166). Included on the Register of Historic Monuments by Minister John Gormley, DoEHLG, on 7 September 2009 and published in Iris Oifigiúil on 18 September 2009. (G. Conroy.) 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 Killahurler 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 Killahurler Lower, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killahurler 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 Killahurler Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Killahurler Lower · Cill Achaidh Urláir Íochtarach
- Area
- 980,204 m² (98.02 ha, 242.21 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killahurler, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Arklow Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,415 people lived in 498 households in the Arklow Rural electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Askinch Upper (Co. Wexford), Barnacleagh North, Barnacleagh South, Killahurler Upper, Knockmiller, Monaglogh, Mooreshill, Shirsheen (Co. Wexford), Slieveduff
- Placenames
- Killahurler 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.