Kilmacrea Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Redcross, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Cill Mochreá Íochtarach
- Area
- 100.6 ha
- 249 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 6,126 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmacrea Lower, from 22 m² to 227,931 m² (22.79 ha, 56.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kilmacrea 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
10 Mar 2021Refused
deposition of soil and stone over an area of c.2.0 ha for the purposes of land improvement with an agricultural end use
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 21250
21 Apr 2017Conditional
extension to rear of dwelling and velux windows to roof of dwelling and associated works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 17441
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 Kilmacrea Lower.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilmacrea Lower.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilmacrea 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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, 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 Kilmacrea Lower.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kilmacrea Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Kilmacrea Lower · Cill Mochreá Íochtarach
- Area
- 1,006,104 m² (100.61 ha, 248.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- Redcross, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Dunganstown West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dunganstown West electoral division: 481 people in 181 households; 82% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinabarny North, Ballinabarny South, Ballykean (Annesley), Ballykean (Stringer), Bolagh Lower, Bolagh Upper, Kilmacrea Upper, Springfarm
- Placenames
- Kilmacrea 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.