# Rockstown Upper, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Castlemacadam, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile na gCarrag Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,047,430 m² (104.74 ha, 258.83 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 18,307 m² (1.83 ha, 4.52 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Castlemacadam, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/castlemacadam.md - Barony: Arklow - Electoral division: Dunganstown West, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55401 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 251192 - Centre: latitude 52.909158, longitude -6.194606 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rockstown Upper, from 134 m² to 286,693 m² (28.67 ha, 70.84 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1280158: 286,693 m² (28.67 ha, 70.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1280158.md - Parcel 1539567: 201,391 m² (20.14 ha, 49.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1539567.md - Parcel 1268005: 186,835 m² (18.68 ha, 46.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268005.md - Parcel 2538715: 126,458 m² (12.65 ha, 31.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2538715.md - Parcel 2655902: 77,108 m² (7.71 ha, 19.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2655902.md - Parcel 1261011: 76,579 m² (7.66 ha, 18.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1261011.md - Parcel 1280050: 33,265 m² (3.33 ha, 8.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1280050.md - Parcel 1275999: 25,781 m² (2.58 ha, 6.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1275999.md - Parcel 1278809: 10,832 m² (1.08 ha, 2.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278809.md - Parcel 2655903: 10,217 m² (1.02 ha, 2.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2655903.md - Parcel 1277558: 3,985 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277558.md - Parcel 3319038: 3,624 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3319038.md - Parcel 1298936: 1,996 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1298936.md - Parcel 1263511: 1,321 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1263511.md - Parcel 1276880: 909 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1276880.md - Parcel 1249107: 134 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1249107.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 22 Aug 2022, Wicklow County Council SU2201: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/SU2201/0 - 8 Sept 2021, Wicklow County Council 211107: Refused. Permission. deposition of soil and stone over an area of c. 1.56 ha for the purposes of land improvement with an agricultural end use. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/211107/0 - 16 Apr 2021, Wicklow County Council 21420: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/21420/0 - 12 Oct 2020, Wicklow County Council 201006: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a storey & a half dormer style dwelling, domestic car garage, wastewater treatment system, bored well & all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/201006/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rockstown Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI035-007: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI035-007----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rockstown Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/rockstown-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/rockstown-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/rockstown-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinabarny North: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballinabarny-north.md - Ballindoyle: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballindoyle.md - Newbawn: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/newbawn.md - Rockstown Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/rockstown-lower.md - Sroughmore: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/sroughmore.md - Ticlash: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ticlash.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/rockstown-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/rockstown-upper