Lugnagroagh
Lugnagroagh is a townland in the civil parish of Boystown, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Log na gCruach.
- Area
- 122.8 ha
- 303 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 11,933 m² (1.19 ha, 2.95 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lugnagroagh, from 105 m² to 620,429 m² (62.04 ha, 153.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Lugnagroagh 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
23 Sept 2025Conditional
(a) the refurbishment & minor alterations to the existing derelict cottage & outbuilding (b) a single storey extension to the rear of the existing cottage; (c) the construction of a new vehicular entrance; (d) the installation of a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area; (e) all associated site and landscaping works to serve the development
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560748
18 Mar 2025N/a
single storey dwelling and garage with on-site treatment plant and soil polishing filter along with a new entrance and all associate site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560187
2 Jan 2025Refused
the construction of a new two storey extension (65.1m²) and refurbishment to existing derelict, roadside cottage (50.7m²), refurbishment of existing outbuilding 7.7m², installation of new septic tank WWTS, construction of a new vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560002
26 Sept 2024Refused
a single storey dwelling and garage with on-site treatment plant and soil polishing filter along with a new entrance and all associate site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460592
27 Aug 2024N/a
a single storey dwelling and garage with on-site treatment plant and soil polishing filter along with a new entrance and all associate site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460519
13 Jun 2023Refused
the proposed works would consist of the following: - Importation and insertion of excavation spoil comprising natural materials of clay, silt, sand, gravel or stone for the purposes of restoration of a previously extracted area to restore the site to a beneficial agricultural and ecological afteruse; - It is estimated that c. 130,000m3 (200,000 tonnes) of inert material will be imported to the site. It is considered that the site would be active for 3 to 5 years. The shortest period of infill of 3 years has been used to assess impacts in this EIAR.
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360092
26 Apr 2023N/a
It is envisaged that the proposed works would consist of the following: • Importation and insertion of excavation spoil comprising natural materials of clay, silt, sand, gravel or stone for the purposes of restoration of a previously extracted area to restore the site to a beneficial agricultural and ecological afteruse; • It is estimated that c. 130,000m3 (200,000 tonnes) of inert material will be imported to the site. It is considered that the site would be active for 3 to 5 years. The shortest period of infill of 3 years has been used to assess impacts in this EIAR.
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2360014
3 Sept 2021Refused
importation and insertion of excavation spoil comprising natural materials of clay, silt, sand, gravel or stone for the purposes of restoration of a previously extracted area to restore the site to a beneficial agricultural and ecological after use. The site compound will include, mobile portacabin office and welfare facilities, material inspection and quarantine area, weighbridge, wheelwash, fencing surrounding the site boundary. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report will be submitted to the planning authority with the planning application.
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211094
20 Aug 2021N/a
Importation and insertion of excavation spoil comprising natural materials of clay, silt, sand, gravel or stone for the purposes of restoration of a previously extracted area to restore the site to a beneficial agricultural and ecological after use
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211043
23 Dec 2019Conditional
renovation and extension of existing one and two storey farmhouse and barn (ground floor 109 sqm / first floor 23 sqm) to include rear ground floor (21.7 sqm) and first floor (60.6 sqm) extensions, giving the house a total gross floor area of 215.2 sqm, general renovation including restoration of stonework, insulation, windows and roof and associated landscaping and site works, including the relocation of the existing site entrance and the installation of a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 191384
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 Lugnagroagh.
Recorded monuments
- WI009-008 Cairn - unclassified
Description
Situated on the summit of Lugnagroagh Mountain. Circular cairn (diam. 14m; H 1m) with a kerb of granite boulders. 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 Lugnagroagh.
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 Lugnagroagh, 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 Lugnagroagh.
- 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 Lugnagroagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Lugnagroagh · Log na gCruach
- Area
- 1,228,074 m² (122.81 ha, 303.46 acres)
- Civil parish
- Boystown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Lower
- Electoral division
- Burgage, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,243 people lived in 656 households in the Burgage electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 58% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintober, Blakestown Upper, Britonstown, Humphrystown, Rathballylong, Tulfarris
- Placenames
- Lugnagroagh 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.