Lockstown Lower

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lockstown Lower, from 455 m² to 190,137 m² (19.01 ha, 46.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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 Lockstown Lower 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.

• 31 Aug 2022Refused

  cabin and its use for commercial short term letting and associated site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 22949

• 22 Jun 2017Conditional

  single storey four bedroom house including three number velux rooflights, single storey domestic garage, new road entrance, new well, foul drainage treatment and percolation area, surface water soakaways, landscaping and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17742

• 11 Apr 2017Conditional

  single storey extension to the side of the existing single storey dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17391

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Poulaphouca Reservoir SPA 004063
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Poulaphouca Reservoir 000731

Recorded monuments

• WI016-002 Cross
  Description

  Situated on a very gentle NW-facing slope at the northern end of a low ridge. Simple, possibly unfinished, granite cross (H 1.07m) cut from a boulder found in a field boundary c. 100m NW of a children's burial ground (WI016-003002-). 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

• WI016-003001 Cross
  Description

  On a gentle W-facing slope on the side of a low ridge with higher ground to the S and SE. A simple granite cross (H 0.72m; max. Wth 0.42m; T 0.09m) in the centre of a childrens' burial ground (WI016-003002-). The top of the cross is missing and one of the arms has been broken off and lies beside it. A similar cross (WI016-002----) occurs 100m to N. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 11 January 2013

• WI016-003002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Situated on a gentle W-facing slope on the side of a low ridge with higher ground to the S and SE. Rectangular enclosure (dims. 13.7m N-S; 12.4m E-W) defined by a wall (H 0.5m) of upright granite slabs. The interior is higher (H 0.2-0.4m) than the surrounding ground level. There are no indications of graves but there is a large earthfast boulder in the centre with a small cairn (diam. 2m) beside it. A simple granite cross (WI016-003001-) with the top broken and one arm missing rests against the boulder. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 11 January 2013

• WI016-003003 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a gentle W-facing slope on the side of a low ridge with higher ground to the S and SE. Rectangular enclosure (dims. 13.7m N-S; 12.4m E-W) defined by a wall (H 0.5m) of upright granite slabs. The interior is higher (H 0.2-0.4m) than the surrounding ground level. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 11 January 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lockstown Lower.

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 Lockstown Lower, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lockstown Lower.

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 Lockstown Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Lockstown Lower · Baile an Loig Íochtarach

Area

1,316,407 m² (131.64 ha, 325.29 acres)

Civil parish

Hollywood, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Lower

Electoral division

Togher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

387 people lived in 129 households in the Togher electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintober, Blackditches Lower, Blackditches Upper, Johnstown, Lockstown Upper, Monamuck, Togher, Walterstown

Placenames

Lockstown Lower 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.