Rockstown Upper

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rockstown Upper, from 134 m² to 286,693 m² (28.67 ha, 70.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Rockstown 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.

• 22 Aug 2022N/a

  application to ABP for substitute consent for development that consists of a sand/gravel extraction pit including extraction areas, processing areas, stockpiling areas & ancillary works (circa 23.7 hectares). The development also includes a sand/gravel washing/screening plant & buildings comprising workshop/machinery shed, tools storage container, pump - house, 2 no. portable office buildings, 1 no. portable office/canteen/WC, Sand processing plant electrical control room, 3 no. storage containers, sand processing plant control cabin, bunded oil storage tanks, diesel generator container & electrical sub station (all totalling circa 376sqm) The application is accompanied by a remedial EIAR and remedial NIS

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, SU2201

• 8 Sept 2021Refused

  deposition of soil and stone over an area of c. 1.56 ha for the purposes of land improvement with an agricultural end use

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211107

• 16 Apr 2021Conditional

  demolition of the existing attached garage and existing extension and for the construction of extensions to the side and rear of the existing dwelling and to upgrade the effluent treatment system to current EPA standards and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21420

• 12 Oct 2020Conditional

  construction of a storey & a half dormer style dwelling, domestic car garage, wastewater treatment system, bored well & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 201006

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 Rockstown Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WI035-007 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a gentle W-facing slope. Shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 60m). The site consists of a rock outcrop forming a small oval rise in the slope. 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rockstown 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

At the centre of the townland of Rockstown Upper, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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 Rockstown Upper.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Rockstown Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Rockstown Upper · Baile na gCarrag Uachtarach

Area

1,047,430 m² (104.74 ha, 258.83 acres)

Civil parish

Castlemacadam, and its townlands

Barony

Arklow

Electoral division

Dunganstown West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

481 people lived in 181 households in the Dunganstown West electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinabarny North, Ballindoyle, Newbawn, Rockstown Lower, Sroughmore, Ticlash

Placenames

Rockstown 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.