# Leabeg Middle, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lower Newcastle, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Liaigh Bheag Láir. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 919,802 m² (91.98 ha, 227.29 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,712 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lower Newcastle, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/lower-newcastle.md - Barony: Newcastle - Electoral division: Newcastle Lower, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,472 people lived in 797 households in the Newcastle Lower electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55625 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250987 - Centre: latitude 53.089559, longitude -6.052161 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Leabeg Middle, from 7 m² to 397,009 m² (39.7 ha, 98.1 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1277454: 397,009 m² (39.7 ha, 98.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277454.md - Parcel 6073392: 309,779 m² (30.98 ha, 76.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6073392.md - Parcel 1287464: 207,488 m² (20.75 ha, 51.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1287464.md - Parcel 1268220: 5,245 m² (0.52 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268220.md - Parcel 6073494: 4,750 m² (0.48 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6073494.md - Parcel 1257005: 4,190 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1257005.md - Parcel 4861736: 3,969 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4861736.md - Parcel 5311247: 3,931 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5311247.md - Parcel 2411494: 3,712 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2411494.md - Parcel 4691136: 3,639 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4691136.md - Parcel 6119302: 2,905 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6119302.md - Parcel 1285149: 2,728 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285149.md - Parcel 6119358: 1,379 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6119358.md - Parcel 6119289: 943 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6119289.md - Parcel 6073375: 498 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6073375.md - Parcel 5848714: 25 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5848714.md - Parcel 5848727: 7 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5848727.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Leabeg Middle 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) 4 applications, newest first. - 15 Nov 2023, Wicklow County Council 23836: N/a. Retention. a two storey extension and conservatory (187.2m²) to the rear of single storey detached dwelling Chippenview Cottage and an attic conversion in the cottage as well as ancillary spaces to the rear of the dwelling (56.5m²). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/23836/0 - 1 Oct 2019, Wicklow County Council 191065: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. single storey detached dwelling, new on site domestic wastewater treatment system and percolation area to current EPA standards including associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/191065/0 - 24 Sept 2019, Wicklow County Council 191047: N/a. Permission, 1 home. single storey detached dwelling, together with new on site domestic wastewater treatment system and percolation area to current EPA standards including associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/191047/0 - 17 May 2017, Wicklow County Council 17561: N/a. Permission, 1 home. the following: Alterations and 94sqm extension to front, side and rear of existing 190sqm dwelling as well as ancillary site works necessary to complete development. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/17561/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: The Murrough Wetlands SAC, site code 002249, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002249 - Special Protection Area: The Murrough cSPA, site code 004186, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004186 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: The Murrough, site code 000730 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI013-035: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI013-035----. Situated on level ground on the edge of a stream. Subcircular enclosure (est. max. diam. c. 35m) defined by a fosse, visible as a cropmark on aerial photograph (CUCAP, BDJ 97). Not visible at ground level. 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 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 Leabeg Middle. ## 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 Leabeg Middle, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3396, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3396.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/leabeg-middle.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/leabeg-middle.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/leabeg-middle.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Leabeg Middle 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) - Ballyloughlin: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyloughlin.md - Cooldross Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/cooldross-lower.md - Leabeg Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/leabeg-lower.md - Leabeg Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/leabeg-upper.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/leabeg-middle - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/leabeg-middle