Loughmogue Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Dunlavin, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Loch Maodhóg Uachtarach
- Area
- 122.2 ha
- 302 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 10,128 m² (1.01 ha, 2.5 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughmogue Upper, from 121 m² to 99,925 m² (9.99 ha, 24.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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
No zone of a development plan covers Loughmogue 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
No planning application touches the townland of Loughmogue Upper in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Loughmogue Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Loughmogue Upper.
Architectural heritage
- Tynte Park, house, 1825–1845 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house with basement, single-storey granite portico, c.1835. The windows in the two outer bays being set in panels breaking forward. Four-bay single-storey service wing’. The walls are finished in painted render, whilst the hipped roof is slated and has a slight overhang supported on brackets. Stone chimneystacks. The entrance consists of a panelled timber door and the flat-headed windows have six over six timber sash frames. The house is set within an extensive demesne.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Loughmogue Upper.
- 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 Loughmogue Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Loughmogue Upper · Loch Maodhóg Uachtarach
- Area
- 1,221,589 m² (122.16 ha, 301.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dunlavin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Lower
- Electoral division
- Dunlavin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dunlavin electoral division: 1,580 people in 526 households; 66% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Boherboy, Coonanstown, Loughmogue Lower, Moanvawn, Mullans, Toberbeg, Tornant Upper
- Placenames
- Loughmogue 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.