Merepark
Townland in the civil parish of Upper Newcastle, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Páirc na Lárach
- Area
- 33 ha
- 81 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 7,008 m² (0.7 ha, 1.73 acres)
- Zoning
- G1
- Open Space
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Merepark, from 1,096 m² to 314,616 m² (31.46 ha, 77.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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
- G1Open Space (Open space, park)
Newtownmountkennedy Town Plan, Wicklow · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Mar 2025Conditional
amendments to the permitted development WCC Reg Ref. 24/154 as follows: • Changes to 10 residential units, house types 8G and 8G1, numbers 11 to 20, Oakmount Avenue, Oakmount, Newtownmountkennedy, Co. Wicklow. Remaining residential units granted under WCC Reg Ref. 24/154 in this estate are not subject to amendments under this application. • The amendments consist of the change of house type from a 3-bedroom semi-detached house to a 4-bedroom semi- detached house, including changes to fenestration, balconies, building shape, external finishes, internal layouts, rear gardens and stepped access to private amenity space for the residential units. • All associated site development works to include services provision, infrastructural and drainage works, provision of substation, landscaping, open space and boundary treatment works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560142
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
1 Dec 2021Conditional
dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211434
12 Apr 2018Conditional
extend the appropriate period of a permission - 06/6101 - demolition of all structures on site incl. habitable house; a habitable house to the west of Season Park; a derelict house to south-west of Season Park estate and a derelict shed. The construction of 861 no. residential units comprising: 608 no. houses comprising: 38 no. 5 bed dormer units, 35 no. 4 bed detached units, 140 no. 4 bed semi-detached/end terrace units, 115 no. 3 bed detached/semi detached/end terrace units, 216 no. 3 bed terrace units, 64 no. 2 bed terrace units: 253 no. apartments in 17 no. blocks ranging in height from 3 to 4 storeys comprising overall: 20 no. 1 bed apartments, 195 no. 2 bed apartments, 38 no. 3 bed apartments, (all apartments provided with balconies and/or terraces. Provision of neighbourhood centre facilities at ground floor of Block 4 and 5 in Estate 6 comprising: 5 no. retail units, 2 no. units, 3 no. community use units, 1 no. unit; provision of 4 no. crèches (1 no. crèche each located in Estates 1,2,3 and 4), provision of a total of c.1,608 no. car parking spaces (1,328 no. at ground level and 280 no. at underground level under Blocks 1,2 and 3 in Estate 6, and under podium level in Estate 2). Construction of the following roads: western distributor road from L1037 to R765 at Moneycarroll, connector road from proposed Western Distributor Road to upgraded signalised junction with R772 at Fisher's junction, from proposed western distributor road to R765 south of estate 6 and lands zoned EC1 from connector road south of estate 6 to St. Josephs School access rom, from western distributor road at Moneycarroll west to R765 Roundwood road. A vehicular access will be maintained at entrance of Monalin House north of estate 6. Construction of central landscaped greenway along the river valley, c 8.0 ha. construction of water storage facility, all ancillary site development, landscaping, road and boundary treatment works, including provision for road embankment for section of proposed western distributor road across the river valley, attenuation lake, profiling of section of land (c0.83 ha) norther west of Fisher's junction, and necessary road improvements of sections of R765 from Moneycarroll to junction with the access road to St. Josephs School
Extension of duration · Wicklow County Council, 18381
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 Merepark.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Merepark.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Merepark.
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 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 Merepark.
- 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 Merepark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Merepark · Páirc na Lárach
- Area
- 329,730 m² (32.97 ha, 81.48 acres)
- Civil parish
- Upper Newcastle, and its townlands
- Barony
- Newcastle
- Electoral division
- Newcastle Upper, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Newcastle Upper electoral division: 4,790 people in 1,619 households; 82% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Easthill, Kilmurry, Monalin, Mount Kennedy Demesne, Newtown Mt. Kennedy, Seasonpark
- Placenames
- Merepark 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.