Pinnacle

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Pinnacle, from 383,068 m² (38.31 ha, 94.66 acres) to 383,068 m² (38.31 ha, 94.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Pinnacle 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Pinnacle in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Pinnacle.

Recorded monuments

• WI027-025 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Situated on a gentle S/SE-facing slope on the upper W slopes of Baltinglass Hill. Circular area (diam. 17.5m) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2-3m; H 1.5m). There is a marked drop immediately to the S of the site where a line of boulders appear to mark a revetting feature. No trace of internal features. 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

• WI027-026002 Hut site
  Description

  Situated c. 50m W of the summit of Baltinglass Hill on level ground 15m inside the inner rampart of Rathcoran hillfort (WI027-026001-). Small slightly raised area (diam. 8m) defined by a low overgrown stony bank. One of two possible hut sites in the interior of the hillfort. 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

• WI027-026003 Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
  Description

  National Monument in state guardianship No. 328. Situated on the summit of Baltinglass Hill in the SE sector of Rathcoran hillfort (WI027-026001-). It was excavated in 1934-6 (Walshe 1941, 221-36) and was found to consist of a multiperiod kerbed cairn (diam. c. 27m) underneath which five structures were identified. The cairn material has been built up to form a massive protective wall around the monument (CUCAP, ASU048). A kerb of large stones surrounded the cairn, and an inner kerb was revealed during excavation. Two stones of the inner kerb and one of the outer bear passage tomb art. The main tomb is on the N side of the cairn; a short passage (L 3.2m) within the cairn is roofed with slabs and leads to a chamber (diam. 2m) which contains three shallow recesses. It contains a stone basin with pecked ornament. On the S side of the cairn is another tomb comprising a chamber divided into three compartments; no evidence for a passage was found. Two of its stones bear passage tomb art. On the NW side of the cairn are the remains of a small corbelled structure, partly overlain by the inner kerb. Immediately SW of this was a small cist-like structure which is no longer visible. A fifth chamber stands inside the kerb to the E of the main tomb. The finds from the site include the cremations of at least three adults and one child, flint scrapers, Carrowkeel pottery, and bone pins. Finds from beneath the cairn included a stone axe, a flint javelin-head, scrapers, an egg-shaped stone, carbonised wheat grains and hazelnuts. A saddle quern was also found in the cairn material (Cooney 1981, 102-6). The site is referred to in the OS Name Books as a cave on the NE side of a large collection of stones. Another cairn lies 100m to the SW. (Walshe 1941, 221-36; Herity 1974, 259-60; Shee Twohig 1981, 223) This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 35/1934). 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

• WI027-076 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a marked SW-facing slope just outside the outer rampart of Rathcoran hillfort (WI027-026001-) on the SW side. Circular cairn (diam. 23m; H 1.5m) of small boulders and stones, somewhat denuded at the NE, possibly robbed during the building of the hillfort. 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

• WI027-081 Hut site
  Description

  In a hollow in a S-facing slope with a steep drop below it to the wall forming the townland boundary 15 to the S. C. 360m ESE of two other hut sites (WI027-082---- and WI027-083----). A flat area (diam. 3.5m) with only some larger stones indicating the line of the enclosing wall. Some stone debris in the interior. Stone from the hut may have been used in building the townland wall. Compiled by: Con Manning and Mary Tunney Date of upload: 23 October 2012

• WI027-082 Hut site
  Description

  On a steep S-facing slope on a slight terrace 2m N of a track. A circular hut site (int. diam. 3.5m x 3.5m; Wth of surviving walls 0.8-1m) defined by a low stone wall overgrown with furze on the N side. The inner face of the wall is well preserved at W with a continuous 2m stretch of upright flags rising 0.2-0.4m above ground level. The wall is mostly missing at S but one slightly larger internal facing stone (H 0.5m) may mark the W jamb of the doorway. Another hut site (WI027-083----) lies c. 23m to the NE. Compiled by: Con Manning and Mary Tunney Date of upload: 24 October 2012

• WI027-083 Hut site
  Description

  On a slight terrace on a S-facing slope with fine views to the S. A hut site (diam. 3.5m E-W; 3.9m N-S) defined by a wall (Wth up to 1.2m; av. H 0.3m) composed mostly of uprights, especially at S. An entrance at S (Wth 1.1m) is defined by two taller internal facing stones (H c. 0.5m). At N the wall comprises a second course of stones. Another hut site (WI027-082----) lies c. 23m to the SW. Compiled by: Con Manning and Mary Tunney Date of upload: 24 October 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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_2768 (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 Pinnacle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Pinnacle

Area

383,068 m² (38.31 ha, 94.66 acres)

Civil parish

Baltinglass, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Baltinglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Baltinglass electoral division: 3,029 people in 1,075 households; 64% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boley, Carsrock, Coolinarrig Upper, Deerpark, Sruhaun, Tuckmill Hill

Placenames

Pinnacle 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.