Lockstown Upper
Lockstown Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Hollywood, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Baile an Loig Uachtarach.
- Area
- 296.8 ha
- 733 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 10,987 m² (1.1 ha, 2.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 18
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lockstown Upper, from 64 m² to 486,159 m² (48.62 ha, 120.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lockstown 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 May 2026Refused
bungalow, garage, new entrance, deep bored well, on site treatment unit and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2697
9 Aug 2023Unconditional
undertake approx. 150m of new road construction and junction improvement works at R756/R758 junction Lockstown, Valleymount as part of a Specific Safety Improvement Scheme. The works include removing the existing boundary ditch/hedge to facilitate construction works and required sightlines at the junction. Drainage and signage will also be installed as part of the scheme. The completed scheme will improve road safety in the area
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23655
16 Mar 2022Conditional
for a dormer style dwelling and garage with a Treatment Plant and polishing filter along with a new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22257
8 Feb 2022N/a
a dormer style dwelling and garage with a treatment plant and polishing filter along with a new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22105
12 Jul 2021Conditional
dormer style dwelling and garage with a treatment plant and polishing filter along with a new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21827
12 Jul 2021N/a
The development will consist of a Dormer style dwelling and garage with a Treatment Plant and polishing filter along with a new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21828
30 Mar 2021Refused
single storey dwelling, wastewater treatment system, new entrance and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21340
10 Feb 2021N/a
a traditional single storey cottage, packaged secondary treatment system, gravity fed soil polishing filter, associated site works, underground garage incorporating, gym, games room, plant room and office
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21121
27 May 2020N/a
single storey dwelling, underground garage, a wastewater treatment system, new entrance and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20489
25 May 2020N/a
single storey cottage, packaged secondary treatment system, gravity fed soil polishing filter, associated site works, underground outbuilding incorporating a plant room, gym, games room and office
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20478
29 Oct 2019Conditional
agricultural shed incorporating dry bed sheep lambing bays, dry fodder storage, farm machinery storage, entrance, effluent holding tank and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 191176
10 Jun 2019N/a
single storey dwelling, underground garage, wastewater treatment system, entrance and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19633
5 Jun 2019N/a
traditional single storey cottage, packaged secondary treatment system, gravity fed soil polishing filter, underground garage incorporating a plant room, gym, games room and office and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19609
23 May 2019N/a
traditional single storey cottage, packaged secondary treatment system, gravity fed soil polishing filter, underground garage and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19560
22 Nov 2018N/a
reroof the existing detached garage and to provide an agricultural shed extension to the side and rear of the garage incorporating dry bed sheep lambing bays and machinery storage
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 181315
2 Aug 2018N/a
one site entrance, the first of three entrances and ancillary site works for the purpose of accessing existing forestry plantations
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18884
2 Aug 2018Conditional
one site entrance, the second of three entrances and ancillary site works for the purpose of accessing existing forestry plantations
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18885
2 Aug 2018Conditional
one site entrance, the thirdof three entrances and ancillary site works for the purpose of accessing existing forestry plantations
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18886
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Poulaphouca Reservoir 000731
Recorded monuments
- WI016-017 Decorated stone
Description
Listed as 'Rock art' in the SMR (1986) this is the original location of the stone known as the 'Holywood stone' which was found here in 1908. The stone is carved with a labyrinth pattern and is on display in the Visitor Centre at Glendalough (WI023-009063-). (Orpen 1911; Price and Walshe 1933, 48) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 25 February 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lockstown 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Lockstown 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lockstown 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Lockstown Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Lockstown Upper · Baile an Loig Uachtarach
- Area
- 2,967,842 m² (296.78 ha, 733.37 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
- Coonmore, Granabeg Upper, Granamore, Lockstown Lower, Togher, Walterstown
- Placenames
- Lockstown 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.