Money Lower
Money Lower is a townland in the civil parish of Aghowle, barony of Shillelagh, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is An Muine Íochtarach.
- Area
- 195.7 ha
- 484 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 73,097 m² (7.31 ha, 18.06 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Money Lower, from 2,228 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 502,837 m² (50.28 ha, 124.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Money Lower 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
15 Nov 2024Conditional
construction of a part two storey, part single storey dwelling, new entrance, appropriate waste water treatment system, bored well, single storey garage and all ancillary site works and landscaping
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460713
3 Sept 2021Conditional
construction of a part two storey , part single storey dwelling, new site entrance, wastewater treatment system to current EPA standards, private well and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211093
31 Aug 2020Conditional
(1) permission to construct slatted cubicle shed and external slatted tank (2) permission to construct silage pit, concrete aprons and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20850
7 Sept 2017Conditional
milking parlour and dairy with slatted collecting yard, concrete aprons and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 171090
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 Money Lower.
Recorded monuments
- WI042-014 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a gentle SE-facing slope. Oval enclosure (dims. c. 40m NW-SE; 30m NE-SW) hachured on the current edition of the OS 6-inch map. Not visible at ground level. 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 Money Lower.
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 Money Lower, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Money Lower.
- 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 Money Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Money Lower · An Muine Íochtarach
- Area
- 1,957,386 m² (195.74 ha, 483.68 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghowle, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shillelagh
- Electoral division
- Money, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 165 people lived in 57 households in the Money electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardoyne, Killinure, Leany (Co. Carlow), Money Upper, Newstown (Co. Carlow), Tullowclay
- Placenames
- Money Lower 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.