Powerscourt Mountain

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Powerscourt Mountain, from 853 m² to 12,239,437 m² (1,223.94 ha, 3,024.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• G3HA-DM (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 16 Mar 2023Conditional

  full replacement of the existing underground electricity cable (UGC) serving the kippure transmitter with a new ugc. the new ugc will commence at the existing esb 10kv poleset and will run along margin of the r115 over a distance of c. 150m before proceeding north along the existing access road leading from the kippure site entrance up to the kippure transmitter over a distance of c. 3.4km. the proposed works will involve installation of a ugc with associated joint bays and all ancillary works. it is intended to retire the existing ugc and leave it in-situ. a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the planning authority with the application

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23261

• 24 Feb 2023N/a

  full replacement, of the existing underground electricity cable (UGC) serving the Kippure Transmitter with a new UGC. The new UGC will commence at the existing ESB 10kV poleset and will run along margin of the R115 over a distance of c. 150m before proceeding north along the existing access road leading from the Kippure site entrance up to the Kippure Transmitter over a distance of c. 3.4km. the proposed works will involve installation of a UGC with associated joint bays and ancillary works. it is intended to retire the existing UGC and leave it in-situ. a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the planning authority with the application

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23178

• 15 Feb 2023N/a

  Full replacement of the existing underground electricity cable (UGC) serving the Kippure Transmitter with a new UGC. The new UGC will commence at the existing ESB 10kV poleset and will run along margin of the R115 over a distance of c.150m before proceeding north along the existing access road leading from the Kippure site entrance up to the Kippure Transmitter over a distance of c.3.4km. The proposed works will involve the installation of a UGC with associated joint bays and all ancillary works. It is intended to retire the existing UGC and leave it in-situ. A natura impact statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23132

• 22 Dec 2022N/a

  upgrading, by way of full replacement, of the existing underground electricity cable (UGC) serving the Kippure Transmitter. The UGC will commence at the existing ESB 10kV poleset and will run along margin of the R115 over a distance of c. 150m before proceeding north along the existing access road leading from Kippure site entrance up to the Kippure Transmitter over a distance of c. 3.4km. The proposed works will involve installation of a UGC with associated joint bays and all ancillary works. A Nutura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the planning authority with the application

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221401

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Wicklow Mountains SAC 002122
• Special Protection Area: Wicklow Mountains SPA 004040

Recorded monuments

• WI006-016 Mound
  Description

  Situated on the ridge between Kippure and Tonduff near the source of the River Liffey. A possible mound, faintly visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP, O 67-8). 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

• Longbourne, house, 1845–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1855. The front façade is of rock-faced coursed granite with a simple portico with dressed granite columns supporting a rock-faced granite pediment. The east and west (gabled) facades are finished in unpainted render, whilst the pitched roof is slated and has a granite chimneystack and parapets. The entrance consists of a partly glazed timber door and sidelight and the flat-headed windows have replacement top-hung timber frames. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The house is prominently set on a rise by a roadside with a small garden to the front enclosed by a low rubble wall with simple railings.

• Lough Bray House, hunting/fishing lodge, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay one and a half-storey picturesque sporting lodge, built c.1850 around the fabric of an earlier dwelling. The building is rendered with overhanging eaves and decorative bargeboards. The sporting lodge comprises of a series of ‘wings’ each with its own gabled roof; there are a number of projecting square bays one of which has a balcony over and another on the first floor which is gabled and which is supported on stilts. The front door is now covered with a later glazed conservatory / porch. Window openings are flat-headed. Frames are generally mullioned and transomed with panes and these are mainly margined. The pitched roof is finished with natural slate and cast-iron rainwater goods. Chimneystacks are rendered with plain caps and very large clay pots. The sporting lodge is set at the head of a long driveway overlooking Loughbray Lower. The south front looks on to a wide paved terrace.

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Powerscourt Mountain.

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 Powerscourt Mountain with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Powerscourt Mountain

Area

24,310,745 m² (2,431.07 ha, 6,007.32 acres)

Civil parish

Powerscourt, and its townlands

Barony

Rathdown

Electoral division

Powerscourt, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Powerscourt electoral division: 889 people in 283 households; 86% of households own their home; 18% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aurora, Bahana, Ballinastoe, Ballycoyle, Ballylerane, Ballyreagh, Ballyross, Castlekelly (Co. Dublin), Crone, Cruagh (Co. Dublin), Deerpark, Glassamucky Brakes (Co. Dublin), Glassamucky Mountain (Co. Dublin), Killakee (Co. Dublin), Kippure East, Oldboleys, Powerscourt Paddock

Placenames

Powerscourt Mountain 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.