# Knockieran Upper, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Blessington, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Cnoc an Chaorthainn Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 708,683 m² (70.87 ha, 175.12 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,229 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Blessington, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/blessington.md - Barony: Talbotstown Lower - Electoral division: Blessington, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 4,588 people lived in 1,608 households in the Blessington electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54633 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250949 - Centre: latitude 53.158599, longitude -6.507651 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockieran Upper, from 384 m² to 245,831 m² (24.58 ha, 60.75 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1269636: 245,831 m² (24.58 ha, 60.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1269636.md - Parcel 1269637: 127,904 m² (12.79 ha, 31.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1269637.md - Parcel 1287593: 94,740 m² (9.47 ha, 23.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1287593.md - Parcel 1269638: 89,355 m² (8.94 ha, 22.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1269638.md - Parcel 1287594: 27,238 m² (2.72 ha, 6.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1287594.md - Parcel 2655749: 11,058 m² (1.11 ha, 2.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2655749.md - Parcel 1259181: 6,775 m² (0.68 ha, 1.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1259181.md - Parcel 1278065: 6,015 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278065.md - Parcel 1256944: 5,429 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1256944.md - Parcel 5749596: 5,229 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5749596.md - Parcel 2687887: 4,684 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2687887.md - Parcel 1263774: 2,648 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1263774.md - Parcel 1298716: 2,445 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1298716.md - Parcel 1249905: 2,171 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1249905.md - Parcel 1257621: 1,813 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1257621.md - Parcel 1297465: 1,083 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1297465.md - Parcel 1277014: 980 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277014.md - Parcel 1265679: 825 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1265679.md - Parcel 1277496: 384 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277496.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Knockieran 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) 1 application, newest first. - 2 Oct 2017, Wicklow County Council 171186: Conditional. Permission. extend dry litter sheep wintering shed, the existing floor area is 215 sqm and the proposed extension is 185 sqm, above works on farm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/171186/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockieran Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI005-124: Cursus, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI005-124----. On the steep westernmost slope of Lugnagun ridge. A cairn (WI005-058---) is located on the summit of the ridge, at the eastern end of the monument. Monument identified in 2013 on Lidar imaging (Steve Davis, UCD School of Archaeology). This possible cursus consists of two parallel earthen banks (Wth c. 4.5m; H c. 0.5m) which are 36-39m apart, aligned roughly E-W, and visible over a distance of over 600m (Corlett 2014, 23). At the upper, eastern end the cursus has an open terminal, with the southern bank stopping some distance short of the cairn, though this bank appears to have been robbed out (ibid.). The downslope portion of both banks has been largely levelled but is visible on aerial photographs and Lidar imaging (ibid.). A similar possible cursus monument has been identified on Keadeen Mountain, Co. Wicklow (WI027-089----), with examples in other counties including one on Brewel Hill (KD032-058----) in Co. Kildare and two in Co. Carlow, at Knockendrane (CW020-026----) and Coolasnaghta (CW020-027----). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 28 July 2014 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockieran 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 Knockieran Upper, about 1 in 10 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: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2946, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2946.zip (ZIP). - 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/knockieran-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockieran-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockieran-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Knockieran 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) - Blackrock: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/blackrock-250378.md - Butterhill: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/butterhill.md - Carrig: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/carrig.md - Knockieran Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockieran-lower.md - Rathnabo: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/rathnabo.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/knockieran-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/knockieran-upper