Knocknamuck Upper

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocknamuck Upper, from 324 m² to 165,889 m² (16.59 ha, 40.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Knocknamuck 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.

• 4 Nov 2025Unconditional

  section 42 - extension of appropriate period - 20/882 - bungalow, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and ancillary works

  Extension of duration · Wicklow County Council, 25315

• 8 Sept 2020Conditional

  bungalow, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20882

• 18 Jun 2019Conditional

  new dwelling, garage, new entrance, wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter, new well and associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 19657

• 29 Aug 2018Conditional

  erect milking parlour, dairy, plant room, office, collecting yard, cattle handling facility, dirty/grey water tank, demolition of redundant store and associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18970

• 22 Aug 2018N/a

  erect milking parlour, dairy, plant room, office, collecting yard, cattle handling facility, dirty/grey water tank, demolition of redundant store and associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18950

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 Knocknamuck Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WI020-005 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a gentle E-facing slope immediately N of the summit of a low hill. Circular enclosure (diam. c. 10m), visible as a cropmark on aerial photograph. (CUCAP, BGN 21), defined by a fosse. Not visible at ground level. Possibly a barrow. 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

• WI020-006 Quarry
  Description

  On an E-facing slope. Included in the SMR (1986) as an enclosure on the basis of a cropmark on an aerial photograph (CUCAP, BGN 21). Found on inspection (in August 1989) to be a quarry. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 18 December 2012

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knocknamuck 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 Knocknamuck 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 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 Knocknamuck 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 Knocknamuck Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Knocknamuck Upper · Cnoc na Muc Uachtarach

Area

580,834 m² (58.08 ha, 143.53 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynure, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

The Grange, the unit of the census

Census 2022

472 people lived in 167 households in the The Grange electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynure Demesne, Knockarigg, Knocknamuck Lower, Whitehills

Placenames

Knocknamuck 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.