# Killough Upper, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacanoge, barony of Rathdown, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Cill Lóch Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 945,866 m² (94.59 ha, 233.73 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,471 m² (0.75 ha, 1.85 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 13 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmacanoge, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/kilmacanoge.md - Barony: Rathdown - Electoral division: Powerscourt, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 889 people lived in 283 households in the Powerscourt electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55113 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250855 - Centre: latitude 53.155315, longitude -6.165258 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killough Upper, from 172 m² to 112,440 m² (11.24 ha, 27.78 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1275562: 112,440 m² (11.24 ha, 27.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1275562.md - Parcel 1285129: 107,712 m² (10.77 ha, 26.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285129.md - Parcel 1288660: 105,965 m² (10.6 ha, 26.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288660.md - Parcel 1268284: 98,237 m² (9.82 ha, 24.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268284.md - Parcel 1278858: 75,254 m² (7.53 ha, 18.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278858.md - Parcel 1269455: 69,546 m² (6.95 ha, 17.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1269455.md - Parcel 1282894: 50,582 m² (5.06 ha, 12.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282894.md - Parcel 1259194: 50,576 m² (5.06 ha, 12.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1259194.md - Parcel 1287459: 40,006 m² (4 ha, 9.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1287459.md - Parcel 1271338: 28,963 m² (2.9 ha, 7.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271338.md - Parcel 1274597: 28,575 m² (2.86 ha, 7.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1274597.md - Parcel 1262405: 22,718 m² (2.27 ha, 5.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262405.md - Parcel 1268978: 16,948 m² (1.69 ha, 4.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268978.md - Parcel 1275008: 15,329 m² (1.53 ha, 3.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1275008.md - Parcel 1294376: 14,614 m² (1.46 ha, 3.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1294376.md - Parcel 6123714: 12,414 m² (1.24 ha, 3.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6123714.md - Parcel 5765172: 11,105 m² (1.11 ha, 2.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5765172.md - Parcel 1275138: 9,401 m² (0.94 ha, 2.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1275138.md - Parcel 1260101: 8,715 m² (0.87 ha, 2.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1260101.md - Parcel 1267386: 7,778 m² (0.78 ha, 1.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1267386.md - Parcel 1267576: 7,586 m² (0.76 ha, 1.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1267576.md - Parcel 1278411: 7,355 m² (0.74 ha, 1.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278411.md - Parcel 1270093: 6,891 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1270093.md - Parcel 1290372: 5,101 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1290372.md - Parcel 1281798: 3,908 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281798.md - Parcel 1278953: 3,889 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278953.md - Parcel 3323551: 3,610 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3323551.md - Parcel 1270330: 3,488 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1270330.md - Parcel 5345322: 3,019 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5345322.md - Parcel 1261226: 2,958 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1261226.md - Parcel 2655759: 2,496 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2655759.md - Parcel 1291218: 2,203 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1291218.md - Parcel 1286050: 2,090 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1286050.md - Parcel 1294260: 1,587 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1294260.md - Parcel 1266733: 983 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1266733.md - Parcel 1266283: 882 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1266283.md - Parcel 1269153: 750 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1269153.md - Parcel 1266142: 698 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1266142.md - Parcel 1284436: 626 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1284436.md - Parcel 2655760: 386 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2655760.md - Parcel 1283894: 264 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1283894.md - Parcel 1266935: 172 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1266935.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Killough Upper in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 13 applications, newest first. - 5 Aug 2026, Wicklow County Council 2660692: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. demolition of existing dwelling and construction of a new replacement dwelling, removal of existing septic tank, new wastewater treatment unit & polishing filter, new boundary treatment and associate works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660692/0 - 9 Apr 2025, Wicklow County Council 2585: Unconditional. Extension of duration. Section 42 - (19/1151) - dwelling, well, effluent disposal system to EPA guidelines 2009 forming new vehicular entrance onto existing driveway and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2585/0 - 4 Jun 2024, Wicklow County Council 2460305: N/a. Permission, 1 home. change of house type to that previously approved under PRR 19/1151 consisting of new dwelling, bored well, effluent disposal system to EPA guidelines, forming new vehicular entrance on to existing driveway and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460305/0 - 31 May 2023, Wicklow County Council 2360078: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for a single storey dwelling house with on-site wastewater treatment, well, driveways including boundary treatment and ancillary works. Retention Permission is sought for the completion and alterations to garage/store building previously granted under Planning Ref No. 14/2150. The garage/store is currently being employed as living accommodation by the applicant and will revert to its intended use as a garage/store.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360078/0 - 8 May 2023, Wicklow County Council 2360033: N/a. Permission. New dwelling, bored well, effluent disposal system to EPA guidelines 2021, accessed via existing lane off existing driveway and associated siteworks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360033/0 - 9 Dec 2022, Wicklow County Council 221317: Conditional. Permission. a new dwelling, wastewater treatment unit and soil polishing filter, new well, and associate works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/221317/0 - 2 Dec 2022, Wicklow County Council 221280: Conditional. Retention. 8.5sqm side extension as built and permission for new rear extension, removal of existing septic tank, new wastewater treatment unit & polishing filter, new boundary treatment and associate works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/221280/0 - 30 Mar 2021, Wicklow County Council 21337: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. new dwelling , upgrading of existing agriculture entrance, wastewater treatment unit and soil polishing filter, new well, removal of existing septic tank and install a new wastewater treatment unit and soil polishing filter for existing dwelling next door and associate works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/21337/0 - 3 Feb 2020, Wicklow County Council 2094: Unconditional. Extension of duration, 1 home. extend the appropriate period of a permission - 14/2150 - dwelling house with detached garage, waste water treatment unit with associated percolation area, driveways, well and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2094/0 - 23 Oct 2019, Wicklow County Council 191151: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. dwelling, well, effluent disposal system to EPA guidelines 2009 forming new vehicular entrance onto existing driveway and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/191151/0 - 10 May 2019, Wicklow County Council 19502: N/a. Permission, 1 home. dwelling house with stepped floor levels, new access lane and vehicular entrance, new hard surface to existing access lane, new wastewater treatment system and soakaway and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/19502/0 - 29 Apr 2019, Wicklow County Council 19448: N/a. Permission, 1 home. dwelling, bored well, effluent disposal system to EPA guidelines 2009, forming new vehicular entrance onto existing driveway and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/19448/0 - 22 Sept 2017, Wicklow County Council 171146: Refused. Retention, 2 homes. subdivision of single storey dwelling into 2 no dwellings (90 sqm and 92 sqm) with minor elevational amendments and additional vehicular entrance. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/171146/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Great Sugar Loaf, site code 001769 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Killough Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killough Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Killough Upper, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Killough Upper. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/killough-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/killough-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/killough-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Killough Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinteskin: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballinteskin-250128.md - Ballybawn Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballybawn-upper.md - Ballyremon Commons: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyremon-commons.md - Calary Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/calary-upper.md - Glencap Commons South: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/glencap-commons-south.md - Glencap Commons Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/glencap-commons-upper.md - Killough Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/killough-lower.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/killough-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/killough-upper