Lowtown

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lowtown, from 419 m² to 340,798 m² (34.08 ha, 84.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Lowtown 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.

• 17 Aug 2026N/a

  as constructed domestic garage and ancillary works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 26165

• 22 Jul 2026N/a

  domestic garage and ancillary works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 26146

• 6 May 2026Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit and soil polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto public road and associate works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2660377

• 11 Jul 2025Conditional

  removal of existing septic tank and installation of new wastewater treatment unit and soil polishing filter to current regulations and associate works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560527

• 2 Nov 2020Conditional

  new dwelling attached garage, new entrance onto public road, wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter, new well and associate works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 201104

• 12 Feb 2019N/a

  two storey dwelling, garage, proprietary septic tank with percolation area, landscaping and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19132

• 23 Jan 2019N/a

  two storey dwelling with proprietary septic tank with percolation area, landscaping and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 1962

• 1 May 2018Conditional

  two storey dwelling with domestic garage attached, wastewater treatment system and new entrance together with all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18469

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lowtown.

Recorded monuments

• WI020-020 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Situated in a very marshy area and visible only as a wetter area within this. A spring which according to the OS Name Books was believed locally to have had curative powers. The name possibly means 'well of the cuckoo' (tobar na gcuach). 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

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 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 Lowtown.

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.

No address of the register names Lowtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Lowtown · An Baile Íseal

Area

977,744 m² (97.77 ha, 241.61 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynure, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

The Grange, the unit of the census

Census 2022

The Grange electoral division: 472 people in 167 households; 78% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Burrow, Goldenfort, Hartstown, Knockarigg Hill, Moneymore, Rampere

Placenames

Lowtown 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.