# Mullycagh Lower, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Hollywood, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Mullach Catha Íochtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,385,329 m² (138.53 ha, 342.32 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,300 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Hollywood, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/hollywood.md - Barony: Talbotstown Lower - Electoral division: Hollywood, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 820 people lived in 271 households in the Hollywood electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54776 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 251088 - Centre: latitude 53.045025, longitude -6.62793 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mullycagh Lower, from 98 m² to 257,814 m² (25.78 ha, 63.71 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1290101: 257,814 m² (25.78 ha, 63.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1290101.md - Parcel 1267680: 185,363 m² (18.54 ha, 45.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1267680.md - Parcel 1289689: 152,395 m² (15.24 ha, 37.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289689.md - Parcel 1267681: 141,792 m² (14.18 ha, 35.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1267681.md - Parcel 1289864: 91,412 m² (9.14 ha, 22.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289864.md - Parcel 1289865: 70,553 m² (7.06 ha, 17.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289865.md - Parcel 2736297: 59,621 m² (5.96 ha, 14.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2736297.md - Parcel 1255876: 52,254 m² (5.23 ha, 12.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1255876.md - Parcel 1248233: 48,074 m² (4.81 ha, 11.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1248233.md - Parcel 1248506: 43,659 m² (4.37 ha, 10.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1248506.md - Parcel 1248952: 40,239 m² (4.02 ha, 9.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1248952.md - Parcel 1289867: 37,679 m² (3.77 ha, 9.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289867.md - Parcel 1267679: 32,395 m² (3.24 ha, 8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1267679.md - Parcel 1289868: 24,601 m² (2.46 ha, 6.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289868.md - Parcel 1251172: 18,721 m² (1.87 ha, 4.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1251172.md - Parcel 1280615: 17,608 m² (1.76 ha, 4.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1280615.md - Parcel 4927450: 14,573 m² (1.46 ha, 3.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4927450.md - Parcel 1251174: 13,827 m² (1.38 ha, 3.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1251174.md - Parcel 1289691: 11,786 m² (1.18 ha, 2.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289691.md - Parcel 2736288: 11,155 m² (1.12 ha, 2.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2736288.md - Parcel 4971039: 5,308 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4971039.md - Parcel 1251168: 4,687 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1251168.md - Parcel 2656548: 4,630 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2656548.md - Parcel 1255875: 3,970 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1255875.md - Parcel 1296176: 3,753 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1296176.md - Parcel 1276213: 3,370 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1276213.md - Parcel 1276965: 3,261 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1276965.md - Parcel 1289866: 3,203 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289866.md - Parcel 4927472: 3,052 m² (0.31 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4927472.md - Parcel 1261168: 2,640 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1261168.md - Parcel 1251171: 2,600 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1251171.md - Parcel 5012764: 2,529 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5012764.md - Parcel 1263753: 2,046 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1263753.md - Parcel 1260135: 1,958 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1260135.md - Parcel 1282330: 1,816 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282330.md - Parcel 4971042: 1,503 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4971042.md - Parcel 1282904: 1,431 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282904.md - Parcel 1267457: 1,252 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1267457.md - Parcel 1255877: 1,101 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1255877.md - Parcel 1289690: 999 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289690.md - Parcel 2861357: 988 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2861357.md - Parcel 1248317: 468 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1248317.md - Parcel 1281906: 437 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281906.md - Parcel 1281299: 405 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281299.md - Parcel 2561700: 275 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2561700.md - Parcel 1283398: 98 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1283398.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Mullycagh Lower in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 4 Apr 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560247: Conditional. Permission. construction of a Solar PV development, a Battery Energy Storage System facility (BESS) and all ancillary works on a ca. 65.4 ha site consisting of: Solar PV panels laid out in arrays across the Site; A 38kV substation building ((13.8 (l) and 7.4 (w)) and associated compound area, a transformer unit (ca. 5.8m x ca. 8.45m) and associated bund; 192 number Battery Energy Storage System units comprising 22 modules (ca. 3.1m x ca.3.1m); 6 MV Skid/Power Hubs (ca. 9.45m x ca.2.1m), 24 number inverter units (ca. 3m x ca.2.6m); Upgrade of 1 No. existing Site entrance; 1 No. temporary construction compound; Electrical and communications cabling; Pole-mounted security cameras; Perimeter security fencing (2m high) and security gates; Internal access tracks; All associated ancillary development, landscaping and reinstatement works. The operational lifetime of the proposed development will be 40-years. A Natura Impact Statement will accompany the planning application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560247/0 - 28 Mar 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560226: N/a. Permission. development which will consist of the construction of a Solar PV development, a Battery Energy Storage System facility (BESS) and all ancillary works on a ca. 65.4 ha site consisting of: (I) Solar PV panels laid out in arrays across the Site; (ii)A 38kV substation building ((13.8 (l) and 7.4 (w)) and associated compound area, (iii)a transformer unit (ca. 5.8m x ca. 8.45m) and associated bund; (iv)192 number Battery Energy Storage System units comprising 22 modules (ca. 3.1m x ca.3.1m); (iv)6 MV Skid/Power Hubs (ca. 9.45m x ca.2.1m), (v)24 number inverter units (ca. 3m x ca.2.6m); (vi)Upgrade of 1 No. existing Site entrance; (vii)1 No. temporary construction compound; (viii)Electrical and communications cabling; (ix)Pole-mounted security cameras; (x)Perimeter security fencing (2m high) and security gates; (xi)Internal access tracks; and, (xii)All associated ancillary development, landscaping and reinstatement works The operational lifetime of the proposed development will be 40-years. A Natura Impact Statement will accompany the planning application. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560226/0 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 Mullycagh Lower. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI015-042: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI015-042----. Situated on the level floor of a narrow NE-SW valley. Rectangular structure (dims. 7m x 4m) defined by low foundations of earth and stone. 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 - WI015-044: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI015-044----. Listed as an 'enclosure' in the SMR (1986) based on cartographic evidence (1st edtion OS six-inch map, 1838) where it is depicted as a hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m). Price (1953, 226) refers to it as 'the oblong fort'. Currently within a forestry plantation. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 21 December 2012 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mullycagh Lower. ## 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 Mullycagh Lower, 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 Mullycagh Lower. - 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/mullycagh-lower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/mullycagh-lower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/mullycagh-lower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Mullycagh Lower 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) - Blackmoor: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/blackmoor.md - Crehelp: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/crehelp.md - Kilbaylet Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/kilbaylet-upper.md - Merginstown: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/merginstown.md - Merginstown Demesne: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/merginstown-demesne.md - Mullycagh Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/mullycagh-upper.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/mullycagh-lower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/mullycagh-lower