Knockrobin Murragh
Townland in the civil parish of Rathnew, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Muiríoch Chnoc Roibín
- Area
- 7.1 ha
- 17 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 24,493 m² (2.45 ha, 6.05 acres)
- Zoning
- N6
- Public Utility
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockrobin Murragh, from 21,471 m² (2.15 ha, 5.31 acres) to 27,515 m² (2.75 ha, 6.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 1 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
- N6Public Utility (Other networks and basic infrastructure/utilities uses)
Wicklow Town - Rathnew Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Natural Areas (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Wicklow Town - Rathnew Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 Oct 2021Conditional
new infrastructure and alterations at the existing sludge treatment centre to increase the volume of liquid sludge imports for dewatering, so that it can operate as a Satellite Dewatering Centre in addition to its current operation for sludge treatment. The proposed development comprises: Lime silo. Mixer shed. Trailer shed. Control room/kiosk. Odour control unit. Pumps and other mechanical and electrical works associated with the above. All associated ancillary site development works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211263
1 Oct 2021N/a
new infrastructure and alterations at the existing sludge treatment centre to increase the volume of liquid sludge imports for dewatering, so that it can operate as a Satellite Dewatering Centre in addition to its current operation for sludge treatment. The proposed development comprises: Lime silo. Mixer shed. Trailer shed. Control room/kiosk. Odour control unit. Pumps and other mechanical and electrical works associated with the above. All associated ancillary site development works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211186
16 Dec 2019N/a
structural steel canopy over the existing loading and unloading bays, the canopy structure having a gross floor area of 316.55 sqm, the relocation of the existing site entrance to a location to the south of the existing entrance, the erection of fencing, as replacement for the existing fencing and site entrance, to the eastern site boundary and all associated site works, at the existing biofuels production facility. The proposed development relates to a development which requires a Technical Amendment to an existing Industrial Emissions License (EPA Registration No P0950-01)
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 191347
12 Jan 2017Conditional
change of use in respect of one unit of the existing commercial storage facility, the unit comprising a gross floor area of 885 sqm from commercial storage use to light industrial use, and associated site works. The proposed development relates to a development which requires a review of the existing Industrial Emissions Licence (EPA Reg Number P0950-01). The application is accompany by an Environmental Impact Statement
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 1721
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
- Special Area of Conservation: The Murrough Wetlands SAC 002249
- Special Protection Area: The Murrough cSPA 004186
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: The Murrough 000730
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Knockrobin Murragh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockrobin Murragh.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3401 (ZIP).
- 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 Knockrobin Murragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Knockrobin Murragh · Muiríoch Chnoc Roibín
- Area
- 70,536 m² (7.05 ha, 17.43 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathnew, and its townlands
- Barony
- Newcastle
- Electoral division
- Wicklow Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Wicklow Rural electoral division: 10,247 people in 3,334 households; 73% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bollarney Murragh, Tinakelly Murragh
- Placenames
- Knockrobin Murragh 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.