Kilranelagh

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilranelagh, from 2,232 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 795,857 m² (79.59 ha, 196.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Kilranelagh 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.

• 27 Jan 2021Refused

  10 year permission for Construction of up to 5 No. wind turbines with a maximum overall blade top height of 165m, with a transformer at each turbine and associated hard stand area; 1No. 38kV electrical substation and all associated infrastructure and works; 20kV underground cables facilitating the connection of turbines to 38kV electrical substation and all associated infrastructure and works; Circa 6.5km of 38kV underground cabling and all associated works along public roads to facilitate the connection of the proposed 38kV wind farm electrical substation to the existing Stratford 38/110kV substation referred to as 'the grid route', Provision of a heritage trail circa 1km in length to include associated information signage (located at the key heritage assets) and parking area; Replacement of existing grass verge with a new 1 metre wide footway at each bridge crossing along the 'grid route'; New site tracks, upgraded site tracks and all associated works; 1 No. 30m permanent meteorological mast and all associated infrastructure and works; A temporary site compound and all associated works; and All associated and ancillary site development works The application site includes Protected Structures. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development and will be submitted with the application.

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2160

• 19 Jan 2021N/a

  10 year permission for Construction of up to 5 No. wind turbines with a maximum overall blade top height of 165m, with a transformer at each turbine and associated hard stand area; 1No. 38kV electrical substation and all associated infrastructure and works; 20kV underground cables facilitating the connection of turbines to 38kV electrical substation and all associated infrastructure and works; Circa 6.5km of 38kV underground cabling and all associated works along public roads to facilitate the connection of the proposed 38kV wind farm electrical substation to the existing Stratford 38/110kV substation referred to as 'the grid route', Provision of a heritage trail circa 1km in length to include associated information signage (located at the key heritage assets) and parking area; Replacement of existing grass verge with a new 1 metre wide footway at each bridge crossing along the 'grid route'; New site tracks, upgraded site tracks and all associated works; 1 No. 30m permanent meteorological mast and all associated infrastructure and works; A temporary site compound and all associated works; and All associated and ancillary site development works. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development and will be submitted with the application

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2128

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 Kilranelagh.

Recorded monuments

• WI027-033 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Situated in forestry on a marked W-facing slope. Circular cairn (diam. 5m; H 1m); possibly a clearance cairn. 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

• WI027-098 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  Situated at the base of the northwestern slopes of Kilranelagh Hill, on the demesne lands of Kilranelagh House which stands 380m to WSW. St. Bridget's stone (WI027-031001-) lies immediately to ENE in the adjoining townland of Cloghnagaune. The enclosing element on the E side of the large enclosure follows the line of the townland boundary with Cloghnagaune. Remains of a large enclosure recently identified (O’Driscoll 2016, 131-132) which appears to be the same site recorded by Liam Price in his field notes, where he described a large unrecorded enclosure at the base of Kilranelagh Hill, which was subsequently levelled (Corlett & Weaver 2002, 540). Price described the monument as consisting of an outer ditch approximately 10m wide with an internal bank and inner ditch measuring about 6m in width, the bank being ‘only a couple of feet high’ (ibid., 540). O’Driscoll confirmed the presence of this levelled enclosure through his examination of aerial photographs, noting a circular vegetation mark approximately 172m in diameter occupying an area of 2.37ha (2016, 132). The partial cropmark of this enclosure is visible as a curvilinear feature visible from N to E on OSi orthophotos taken 2000. O’Driscoll stated that the enclosure site and the surroundings were overgrown at that time, making identification of features on the ground difficult. The enclosure site is now almost entirely tree-covered as shown on Digital Globe aerial imagery. See attached OSi orthophoto dating from 2000 showing partial outline of large enclosure, and Google earth aerial imagery taken 22/04/2019 and pre-forestry black and white aerial image provided by Robert Hanbidge Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien based on information provided by Courtney Deery Heritage Consultancy and Robert Hanbidge Date of revised upload: 25 February 2021

Architectural heritage

• Kilranelagh House, country house, 1700–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey country house, built c.1740. To the garden front there is a full-height semi-circular central bow, which may be an early 19th century addition. The walls are finished in roughcast, whilst the slated pitched roof has gable parapets with 'urn' finials and rendered chimneystacks. The windows are flat-headed and are mainly filled with six over six timber sash frames. The doorway to the garden front appears to have originally been a window. The country house is set within a demesne.

• Kilranelagh House, gate lodge, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gate screen with gate lodge at the western entrance to the Kilranelagh House demesne, built c.1780. The screen consists of low curving roughcast rendered walls with two carriage gateways and the lodge set in between. The gateways have square piers with iron gates to the south. There are larger outer piers. The east-facing stepped gable of the gate lodge (which is now disused) is set into the wall. The lodge itself is a small, two-bay part single part one and half-storey structure, with walls largely finished in roughcast and with a slated pitched roof. The entrance consists of a timber tongue and groove door. Whilst the elliptical and flat-headed window openings are boarded up. On the demesne wall just to the south side of the gate screen there is a small inscribed milestone showing directions and distances to Dublin and Dunlavin to the north, and the Hacketstown, Rathdrum, Arklow and Wicklow to the south, all in "British MILES".

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 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 Kilranelagh.

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 Kilranelagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Kilranelagh · Cill Rannaileach

Area

895,123 m² (89.51 ha, 221.19 acres)

Civil parish

Kilranelagh, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Eadestown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Eadestown electoral division: 215 people in 73 households; 90% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinroan Upper, Cloghnagaune, Colvinstown Upper, Downings, Spinans East, Spinans Middle, Spinans West

Placenames

Kilranelagh 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.