# Merepark, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Upper Newcastle, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Páirc na Lárach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 329,730 m² (32.97 ha, 81.48 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,008 m² (0.7 ha, 1.73 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): G1 Open Space, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Upper Newcastle, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/upper-newcastle.md - Barony: Newcastle - Electoral division: Newcastle Upper, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 4,790 people lived in 1,619 households in the Newcastle Upper electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55662 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 251030 - Centre: latitude 53.095045, longitude -6.130595 (WGS 84) ## 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); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1277443: 314,616 m² (31.46 ha, 77.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277443.md - Parcel 1289189: 10,011 m² (1 ha, 2.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289189.md - Parcel 6058123: 4,006 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6058123.md - Parcel 1285142: 1,096 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285142.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - G1 Open Space (Open space, park): Newtownmountkennedy Town Plan, Wicklow; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.wicklow.ie/Portals/0/adam/Documents/5Sr2WLhhgE6kVFA9Q4eH1w/Link/Level%204%20Newtownmountkennedy%20Town%20Plan%202022%20-%202028.pdf ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 5 Mar 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560142: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560142/0 - 2 Jan 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560002: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560002/0 - 1 Dec 2021, Wicklow County Council 211434: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/211434/0 - 12 Apr 2018, Wicklow County Council 18381: Conditional. Extension of duration. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/18381/0 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 Merepark. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Merepark. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Merepark. ## 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 Merepark, 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 Merepark. - 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/merepark.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/merepark.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/merepark.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Easthill: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/easthill.md - Kilmurry: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/kilmurry-250875.md - Monalin: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/monalin.md - Mount Kennedy Demesne: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/mount-kennedy-demesne.md - Newtown Mt. Kennedy: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/newtown-mt-kennedy.md - Seasonpark: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/seasonpark.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/merepark - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/merepark