Newcastle Upper

102 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newcastle Upper, from 33 m² to 305,222 m² (30.52 ha, 75.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Newcastle 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.

• 9 Sept 2026N/a

  dwelling as constructed and all associated ancillary site works and services

  Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 26187

• 2 Sept 2026N/a

  dwelling as constructed and all associated ancillary site works and services

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 26184

• 5 May 2026Conditional

  completion of partially constructed single-storey dwelling and associated development on a site to the rear of existing dwelling. All associated site development works, including completion of effluent disposal system and a new shared vehicular entrance from existing public road and associated drainage works

  Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2660371

• 30 Apr 2026N/a

  completion of partially constructed single-storey dwelling and associated development on a site to the rear of existing dwelling. All associated site development works, including completion of effluent disposal system and a new shared vehicular entrance from existing public road and associated drainage works

  Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2660362

• 21 Apr 2026N/a

  completion of partially constructed single-storey dwelling and associated development of approximately 120 sqm. dwelling floor space, all on a site of approximately 0.2ha to the rear of the existing dwelling. All associated site development works, including completion of a new shared vehicular entrance onto Church Lane, and associated drainage works (planning ref 19/455 refers)

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2660325

• 15 Apr 2026Conditional

  new agriculture shed and associate works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660303

• 29 Oct 2025Conditional

  change of use (removal of condition no. 3 of planning permission ref. no. 02/6953) from restricted use as a dwelling to use by all classes of persons

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560867

• 22 Oct 2025Conditional

  completion of a partially complete dwelling and waste water treatment system permitted under planning reference 17477

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560845

• 20 Oct 2025N/a

  retention and completion of a partially complete dwelling and waste water treatment system permitted under planning reference 17477

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560838

• 23 Apr 2025N/a

  development comprising of: single storey, split level, dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance, landscaping, and associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560308

• 17 Jul 2023N/a

  proposed dwelling, waste water treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 23602

• 14 Sept 2022Unconditional

  extension of appropriate period of PRR17/477 (construction of a dwelling, effluent disposal system and associated site works)

  Extension of duration · Wicklow County Council, 221000

• 4 Apr 2022Conditional

  (a) the construction of a 143sqm two-storey, three bedroom partially submerged, detached dwelling, (b) a new wastewater treatment system and soak-away, (c) 3.6m internal driveway and vehicular access onto Glebe Lane as per grant of permission 17/507, (d) All associated site works and landscaping

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22332

• 10 Mar 2022Conditional

  demolition of existing barn, provision of a new entrance, new dormer style dwelling, wastewater treatment system to current EPA standards and all associated ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22228

• 7 Jul 2021Conditional

  proposed removal of an existing septic tank and percolation area and the installation of a new waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter system all to current EPA guidelines and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21925

• 11 May 2021Conditional

  construction of a new single storey dwelling, domestic car garage, wastewater treatment system, bored well and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21545

• 19 Apr 2021Conditional

  A) Proposed single storey pitched roof porch extension, a pitched roof garage with first floor home office loft space accessible from external stairs along with a connecting flat roof covered open space, all to side and rear wrapping around north-western corner of the existing building. B) New rooflight fitted to eastern roof slope of existing building facing road along with associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21428

• 22 Dec 2020Refused

  change of use from children's den to habitable use for commercial short term letting

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 201321

• 13 Oct 2020Conditional

  change of use (removal of conditions 2 & 3 of PRR 00/3271) from restricted use as a dwelling, to use as a dwelling, to use by all classes of persons

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 201019

• 21 Apr 2020Refused

  change of use from permitted use as an abattoir to use for truck parking and light maintenance and repairs. Retention permission is also sought for two extensions to the building with a total floor space of 157.64 square metres that are currently unauthorised. Permission is also sought to reopen an existing but currently closed internal road while also maintaining the existing access road in operation. Permission is also being sought to increase the size of the existing roller shutter door to 3.45 metres high and 3.8 metres wide. Permission is also being sought for all ancillary site works to support the proposed development

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20375

• 16 Mar 2020N/a

  change of use from permitted use as an abattoir to use for truck parking and light maintenance and repairs. Retention permission is also sought for two extensions to the building with a total floor-space of 157.64 square metres that are currently unauthorised. Permission is also sought to re-open an existing but currently closed internal road while also maintaining the existing access road in operation. Permission is also being sought to increase the size of the existing roller shutter door to 3.45 metres high and 3.8 metres wide. Permission is also being sought for all ancillary site works to support the proposed development

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20263

• 2 Mar 2020N/a

  change of use from permitted use as an abattoir to use for truck parking and light maintenance and repairs. RETENTION is also sought for two buildings with a total floor space of 151.7 sqm, that are currently unauthorised and the demolition of part of one of these buildings. PERMISSION is also sought to reopen an existing but currently closed internal road. Permission is also being sought to increase the size of the existing roller shutter door to 3.45 m high and 3.8m wide. Permission is also being sought for all ancillary site works to support the proposed development

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 20207

• 19 Dec 2019Conditional

  Reference Number 18/385, detached dwelling, which will include four bedrooms, reception rooms, garage, landscaping and associated site works. Permission is also sought for vehicular entrance to the site, wastewater treatment unit to EPA 2009 standards and a soil polishing filter on the site in accordance with the outline permission

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 191373

• 6 Nov 2019Refused

  well together with pumphouse and connection to all services and associated site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 191202

• 30 Apr 2019Conditional

  split level dwelling on family land which part of the proposed dwelling is storey and a half in height, an effluent disposal system, new entrance from existing public road and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19455

The 25 most recent of 47 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Newcastle Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WI019-003 Burial mound
  Description

  Situated on a low rise overlooking a marked SE-facing slope. Circular mound (diam. c. 54m; H 1.8m) which when excavated in 1872, produced a rectangular cist (L 1.07m; Wth 0.61m) containing a cremation and a small bronze razor. (MacEniry 1887-8, 163; Price 1934, 54; Waddell 1990, 166) 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

• WI019-004 Burial
  Description

  Situated on a marked E-facing slope to the E of the summit of a low ridge in the corner of a field. Human skeletons are reputed to have been found in a sandpit on the E side of the ridge (extending N-S). Not visible at ground level. (O'Flanagan 1928, 74) 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

• WI019-037 Water mill - horizontal-wheeled
  Description

  Situated at the foot of a slope in a V-shaped stream valley. The remains of a horizontal mill, recently discovered during drainage operations. It consists of a rectangular pool, lined with wooden planks, with posts which originally supported the wheel-house. The pool was fed by a leat via a wooden 'flume' or chute, which was preserved, and a second leat brought the water back to the nearby stream. The horizontally mounted mill paddles, one of which was preserved, were turned in the stream of water. A sample of wood gave a dendrochronological date of AD 744 +/-9 (Palaeoecology Centre, QUB). 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

• Newcastle House, house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement Regency style house, built c.1810, with late 20th-century porch and conservatory additions. The building is roughly square in plan with two relatively shallow full-height curved bays to front. The façade is finished in painted roughcast, whilst the relatively low-pitched slated hipped roof has a pronounced overhang supported on plain brackets, and rendered chimneystacks. The entrance is covered by a largely glazed, conservatory-like, gable-ended porch. The windows are flat-headed and have six over six and three over three timber sash frames and painted stone sills. To the west elevation, and positioned over the basement light well, there is a hipped roof conservatory. uPVC rainwater goods. Large stable block to the north-west part of which is now converted to a dwelling.

• Newcastle Lodge, house, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1780. The façade is finished in painted roughcast, with slate cladding to part of the south elevation and plain painted render to a small lean-to section to the rear. The hipped roof is slated and has rendered chimneystacks. The entrance consists of a panelled timber door and semi-circular fanlight with ‘petal’ tracery. The windows are flat-headed with most filled with timber sash frames, six over six and three over three, with c.1980s replacement timber frames to some windows to the south and rear elevations. uPVC rainwater goods. Outbuildings to west.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3385 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Newcastle Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Newcastle Upper · An Caisleán Nua Uachtarach

Area

1,738,091 m² (173.81 ha, 429.49 acres)

Civil parish

Lower Newcastle, and its townlands

Barony

Newcastle

Electoral division

Newcastle Lower, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Newcastle Lower electoral division: 2,472 people in 797 households; 77% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyvolan Lower, Ballyvolan Upper, Killadreenan, Kilmullin, Newcastle Middle, Slate, Tiglin, Timmore

Placenames

Newcastle 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.