Oghil Upper

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oghil Upper, from 56 m² to 224,603 m² (22.46 ha, 55.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Oghil 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.

• 8 Jan 2026Conditional

  a) alterations to 9 no houses as previously as granted under planning ref no. 20/500, alterations include additional floor areas to comply with current recommended design standards and minor alterations to external fenestration & materials; Planning Permission for: a) provision of community garden spaces to the main entrance; b) alterations to vehicular access road as granted under planning ref no. 20/500 as required to enhance road safety; all the above together with all ancillary services and associated site works

  Retention, 9 homes · Wicklow County Council, 2660009

• 26 Nov 2025Refused

  subdivision of an existing site for the provision of 1 new dwelling, site entrance, connection to public services and all associated site works

  Outline permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560960

• 20 Nov 2025N/a

  subdivision of an existing site for the provision of 1 new dwelling, site entrance, connection to public services and all associated site works

  Outline permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560947

• 25 Jul 2024Conditional

  existing extensions to front and rear of existing house and retention of change of use from residential to short-term letting use and associated works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2460448

• 14 Jan 2020Conditional

  single storey dwelling, wastewater treatment system to EPA standards, garage, entrance and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2020

• 25 Jul 2019Conditional

  sunroom as constructed to the rear elevation of existing house and conversion of existing integral garage to habitable use and all associated site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 19821

• 30 Apr 2018Conditional

  dwelling house with services, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 18455

• 21 Dec 2017Conditional

  1 no additional mainstream classroom, associated alterations to existing school including the provision of enlarged SET room and relocated accessible WC all together with associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 171516

• 10 Apr 2017N/a

  dwelling house with services, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17382

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 Oghil Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Oghil Upper.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Oghil 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).

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 Oghil 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.

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

Name

Oghil Upper · Eochaill Uachtarach

Area

892,092 m² (89.21 ha, 220.44 acres)

Civil parish

Redcross, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Ennereilly, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ennereilly electoral division: 465 people in 168 households; 78% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydonnell, Blindwood, Crone Lower, Crone Upper, Oghil Lower, Redcross

Placenames

Oghil 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.