Killamoat Upper

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killamoat Upper, from 270 m² to 225,501 m² (22.55 ha, 55.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Killamoat 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.

• 25 Apr 2017Conditional

  demolition of existing 488 sqm cattle and fodder storage shed, replacement with 427 sqm cattle shed, construction of new 223 sqm cattle shed, new concrete yard slab and all associated ancillary works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17453

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 Killamoat Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WI028-012 Castle - motte
  Description

  Situated on level ground with a gentle downhill slope overlooking the Douglas River to the W. Circular steep-sided mound (diam. 37m; max. H 3-3.5m) encircled by a wet flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 6m; max. D 1.6m) with a possible causeway (Wth 4m) at the SW. The inner face of the fosse is revetted with small boulders surviving in part to three courses. The interior of the motte has been removed by quarrying to a depth of 3.4m below the surviving rim. There is a berm (Wth 6-7m; H 0.8m) outside the fosse from S-W with an earthen bank (Wth 1.4-2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.3m) along the outer edge. The berm has been removed at the N. 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 Killamoat 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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Killamoat Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Killamoat Upper · Coill an Mhóta Uachtarach

Area

994,594 m² (99.46 ha, 245.77 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltegan, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Rathdangan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathdangan electoral division: 498 people in 152 households; 91% of households own 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 Upper, Danesfort Lower, Deerpark, Highpark Lower, Highpark Upper, Killamoat Lower, Rathdangan

Placenames

Killamoat 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.