Knocknagilky Upper

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknagilky Upper, from 715 m² to 291,193 m² (29.12 ha, 71.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Knocknagilky 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.

• 18 Feb 2020Conditional

  single storey extension to an existing dwelling including the provision of a replacement wastewater treatment plant and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20151

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 Knocknagilky Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WI033-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gentle N-facing slope just below the summit of the hill. Circular area (diam. 26.5m) defined from NW-E by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3.5m; H 0.6m), visible elsewhere as a cropmark. An external fosse (Wth c. 3.5m; D 0.6m), once used as a farm trackway, also runs NW-E with an outer bank (Wth 2m; H 0.7m) - possibly the result of widening the track at some stage. No indication of an entrance or internal features. 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 Knocknagilky 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

At the centre of the townland of Knocknagilky Upper, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

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

Name

Knocknagilky Upper · Cnoc na Giolcaí Uachtarach

Area

1,321,698 m² (132.17 ha, 326.6 acres)

Civil parish

Hacketstown, and its townlands

Barony

Ballinacor South

Electoral division

Rathdangan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

498 people lived in 152 households in the Rathdangan electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinasilloge, Ballymaghroe, Kilcarney Lower, Kilcarney Upper, Knockanooker Lower, Knockanooker Upper, Knocknagilky Lower, Knocknashamroge, Knocknaskeagh

Placenames

Knocknagilky 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.