Lugglass Upper
Lugglass Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Hollywood, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is An Log Glas Uachtarach.
- Area
- 97.2 ha
- 240 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 46,679 m² (4.67 ha, 11.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lugglass Upper, from 901 m² to 118,389 m² (11.84 ha, 29.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Lugglass 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
10 Jul 2025Conditional
Re-sagging (“re-tensioning”) of the existing conductor along an approximate distance of 16km of the Maynooth - Turlough Hill 220 kV overhead line (OHL) circuit within County Wicklow; and re-sagging of approximately 1.5km of the existing conductor along the Dunstown - Turlough Hill 220 kV OHL circuit within County Wicklow; A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared to accompany this planning application
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560525
26 Jun 2025N/a
Re-sagging (“re-tensioning”) of the existing conductor along an approximate distance of 16km of the Maynooth - Turlough Hill 220 kV overhead line (OHL) circuit within County Wicklow; and re-sagging of approximately 1.5km of the existing conductor along the Dunstown - Turlough Hill 220 kV OHL circuit within County Wicklow; A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared to accompany this planning application
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560469
30 Nov 2020N/a
single storey dwelling, to be serviced with small on site wastewater treatment system to current EPA guidelines, recessed entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 201211
12 Aug 2019Conditional
single storey extension to side of existing residence together with all ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 19880
27 Nov 2017N/a
single storey extension to side of existing residence together with all ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 171410
3 Oct 2017N/a
single storey extension to side of existing residence together with all ancillary works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 171197
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 Lugglass Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lugglass Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lugglass 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 Lugglass 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 high, 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 Lugglass 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 Lugglass Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Lugglass Upper · An Log Glas Uachtarach
- Area
- 971,594 m² (97.16 ha, 240.09 acres)
- Civil parish
- Hollywood, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Lower
- Electoral division
- Lugglass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 188 people lived in 57 households in the Lugglass electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coonmore, Knocknaboley, Lugglass Lower, Slievecorragh, Toor
- Placenames
- Lugglass 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.