# Lowtown, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballynure, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Baile Íseal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 977,744 m² (97.77 ha, 241.61 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,584 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballynure, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/ballynure.md - Barony: Talbotstown Upper - Electoral division: The Grange, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 472 people lived in 167 households in the The Grange electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54980 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 251008 - Centre: latitude 52.976025, longitude -6.725111 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lowtown, from 419 m² to 340,798 m² (34.08 ha, 84.21 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1283208: 340,798 m² (34.08 ha, 84.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1283208.md - Parcel 1273436: 264,823 m² (26.48 ha, 65.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1273436.md - Parcel 3388719: 77,442 m² (7.74 ha, 19.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3388719.md - Parcel 1273388: 63,225 m² (6.32 ha, 15.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1273388.md - Parcel 3388707: 62,586 m² (6.26 ha, 15.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3388707.md - Parcel 3388715: 59,203 m² (5.92 ha, 14.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3388715.md - Parcel 1283267: 56,793 m² (5.68 ha, 14.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1283267.md - Parcel 1273381: 16,549 m² (1.65 ha, 4.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1273381.md - Parcel 5493587: 3,970 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5493587.md - Parcel 2483167: 3,584 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2483167.md - Parcel 1296201: 3,529 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1296201.md - Parcel 1294543: 3,278 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1294543.md - Parcel 1278491: 2,861 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278491.md - Parcel 2657074: 2,684 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2657074.md - Parcel 4983556: 2,034 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4983556.md - Parcel 1265581: 1,924 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1265581.md - Parcel 6224125: 669 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6224125.md - Parcel 1280246: 580 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1280246.md - Parcel 1298413: 419 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1298413.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 17 Aug 2026, Wicklow County Council 26165: Conditional. Retention. as constructed domestic garage and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/26165/0 - 22 Jul 2026, Wicklow County Council 26146: N/a. Retention. domestic garage and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/26146/0 - 6 May 2026, Wicklow County Council 2660377: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit and soil polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto public road and associate works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660377/0 - 11 Jul 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560527: Conditional. Permission. removal of existing septic tank and installation of new wastewater treatment unit and soil polishing filter to current regulations and associate works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560527/0 - 2 Nov 2020, Wicklow County Council 201104: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. new dwelling attached garage, new entrance onto public road, wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter, new well and associate works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/201104/0 - 12 Feb 2019, Wicklow County Council 19132: N/a. Permission, 1 home. two storey dwelling, garage, proprietary septic tank with percolation area, landscaping and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/19132/0 - 23 Jan 2019, Wicklow County Council 1962: N/a. Permission, 1 home. two storey dwelling with proprietary septic tank with percolation area, landscaping and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/1962/0 - 1 May 2018, Wicklow County Council 18469: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. two storey dwelling with domestic garage attached, wastewater treatment system and new entrance together with all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/18469/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lowtown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI020-020: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI020-020----. 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 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 Lowtown. ## 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 Lowtown, about 1 in 10 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 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 Lowtown. - 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/lowtown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/lowtown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/lowtown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Lowtown 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) - Burrow: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/burrow.md - Goldenfort: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/goldenfort.md - Hartstown: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/hartstown.md - Knockarigg Hill: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockarigg-hill.md - Moneymore: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/moneymore.md - Rampere: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/rampere.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/lowtown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/lowtown