Mongnacool Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Ballykine, barony of Ballinacor South, Co. Wicklow
- Area
- 91.8 ha
- 227 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 10,872 m² (1.09 ha, 2.69 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mongnacool Upper, from 2,226 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 531,684 m² (53.17 ha, 131.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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
No zone of a development plan covers Mongnacool 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
29 Sept 2023N/a
development consisting of existing small-scale eco-tourism development “Happy Place Stays” which includes an existing single storey log cabin (35.5sqm) and existing camping pod (28.9sq.m) (both as constructed); retention permission for existing septic tank and percolation area and permission for connection of camping pod to same and all ancillary site works; the use of this accommodation shall be reserved for short term stays only and connected to the horticultural and farming activities established on site
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2360315
9 Dec 2021N/a
reclamation of land through the importation of c53,000 tonnes of clean, inert soil and stone over c2.75 hectares for the purposes of land improvement for agricultural end use. The application includes formation of site entrance, compound for temporary storage and inspection, waste skip, site office, canteen/welfare unit and wheel washing together with ancillary development works and services
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211474
22 Dec 2020Refused
proposal to replace existing unauthorised log cabin with farm house, garage & waste water effluent treatment unit to current EPA standards, bored well and pump house and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 201320
7 Dec 2020N/a
proposal to replace existing unauthorised log cabin with farm house, garage & waste water effluent treatment unit to current EPA standards, bored well and pump house and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 201248
22 Nov 2019Conditional
single storey 39.825 sqm living are extension to side of existing bungalow, RETENTION for 78.28 sqm large plus, plus 2 no 24.6 sqm and 4.05 sqm smaller sheds, attached to front of large shed (total 106.93 sqm). All sheds are used for domestic storage / workshop use only, the large shed also accommodates stabling comprising of 2 no pony stalls. PERMISSION to install a new raised percolation area, comprising of a coco pod to EN12566 standards, and 80 sqm attenuation layer in accordance with EPA 2009 Regulations at existing dwelling
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 191250
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 Mongnacool Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mongnacool Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mongnacool 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
- 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 Mongnacool Upper.
- 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 Mongnacool Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Mongnacool Upper
- Area
- 917,913 m² (91.79 ha, 226.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballykine, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor South
- Electoral division
- Ballinaclash, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballinaclash electoral division: 696 people in 237 households; 81% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bahana (Whaley), Coolaflake, Mongnacool Lower, Raheenavine, Threewells
- Placenames
- Mongnacool 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.