# Rostyduff Lower, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,098,138 m² (109.81 ha, 271.36 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,873 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donaghmore, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/donaghmore.md - Barony: Talbotstown Upper - Electoral division: Imael South, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 271 people lived in 98 households in the Imael South electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54854 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 251200 - Centre: latitude 52.96907, longitude -6.571762 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rostyduff Lower, from 277 m² to 321,742 m² (32.17 ha, 79.5 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1262304: 321,742 m² (32.17 ha, 79.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262304.md - Parcel 1292294: 156,197 m² (15.62 ha, 38.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1292294.md - Parcel 1272318: 120,529 m² (12.05 ha, 29.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1272318.md - Parcel 1271535: 86,615 m² (8.66 ha, 21.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271535.md - Parcel 1268086: 73,224 m² (7.32 ha, 18.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268086.md - Parcel 1283433: 68,688 m² (6.87 ha, 16.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1283433.md - Parcel 1263607: 60,801 m² (6.08 ha, 15.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1263607.md - Parcel 1299956: 58,976 m² (5.9 ha, 14.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1299956.md - Parcel 1268192: 37,016 m² (3.7 ha, 9.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268192.md - Parcel 1286702: 24,722 m² (2.47 ha, 6.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1286702.md - Parcel 5270149: 24,015 m² (2.4 ha, 5.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5270149.md - Parcel 1277339: 20,301 m² (2.03 ha, 5.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277339.md - Parcel 1287164: 13,438 m² (1.34 ha, 3.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1287164.md - Parcel 1284834: 13,127 m² (1.31 ha, 3.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1284834.md - Parcel 1268424: 8,275 m² (0.83 ha, 2.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268424.md - Parcel 2657633: 7,898 m² (0.79 ha, 1.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2657633.md - Parcel 1297559: 6,638 m² (0.66 ha, 1.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1297559.md - Parcel 6043410: 5,749 m² (0.57 ha, 1.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6043410.md - Parcel 1269317: 4,873 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1269317.md - Parcel 1286082: 4,570 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1286082.md - Parcel 5219357: 3,993 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5219357.md - Parcel 1258042: 3,961 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1258042.md - Parcel 5349825: 3,732 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5349825.md - Parcel 1248611: 3,534 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1248611.md - Parcel 1257331: 3,426 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1257331.md - Parcel 1290595: 2,568 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1290595.md - Parcel 1260225: 2,482 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1260225.md - Parcel 1274511: 2,454 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1274511.md - Parcel 1281401: 2,392 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1281401.md - Parcel 1276903: 2,242 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1276903.md - Parcel 1280730: 2,215 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1280730.md - Parcel 1276144: 2,128 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1276144.md - Parcel 4980020: 1,908 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4980020.md - Parcel 1283928: 1,228 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1283928.md - Parcel 1283031: 821 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1283031.md - Parcel 1298786: 442 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1298786.md - Parcel 1286390: 277 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1286390.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Rostyduff Lower 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 13 Aug 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560627: Conditional. Retention. (A) planning permission for the change of use (removal of condition 2(a) of planning file ref no. 00/3063) from restricted use as a person engaged in agriculture, to use by all classes of persons, (B) retention permission for the relocation of first floor landing roof light to the front (north) elevation, (C) retention permission for an additional window in the sitting room on side (east) elevation and window in the ground floor bedroom replaced with patio doors on the rear (south) elevation and (D) retention permission for a first floor gable window on side (west) elevation. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560627/0 - 10 Jul 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560523: N/a. Retention. (A) planning permission for the change of use (removal of condition 2(a) of planning file ref no. 00/3063) from restricted use as a person engaged in agriculture, to use by all classes of persons, (B) retention permission for the relocation of first floor landing roof light to the front (north) elevation, (C) retention permission for an additional window in the sitting room on side (east) elevation and window in the ground floor bedroom replaced with patio doors on the rear (south) elevation and (D) retention permission for a first floor gable window on side (west) elevation. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560523/0 - 27 Feb 2023, Wicklow County Council 23181: Conditional. Permission. construct a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance on to existing laneway, proprietary treatment system with associated percolation area, bored well, all ancillary site works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/23181/0 - 6 Jul 2022, Wicklow County Council 22758: N/a. Extension of duration, 1 home. erection of a single storey dwelling house, proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area, setting back of existing entrance piers in order to achieve a separation distance of 3.0m from the existing public road edge at the junction of existing right of way access with the public road, together with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/22758/0 - 7 Jun 2017, Wicklow County Council 17671: N/a. Permission, 1 home. part storey and a half, part single storey dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, new entrance driveway together with all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/17671/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC, site code 000781, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000781 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WI022-016: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWI022-016----. Situated on level ground overlooking a very gentle N-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 31m) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.7-3.7m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.7-1.1m) with a discontinuous revetment of small boulders surviving to three courses on the outer face at the N. No indication of an external fosse or internal features. The entrance (Wth 1.5m) is at the SE; the second gap at the SW is probably modern. The 1838 OS 6-inch map shows an outer enclosure (diam. c. 55m) which is not visible at ground level. 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 Rostyduff Lower. ## 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 Rostyduff Lower, 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 low, low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rostyduff Lower. - 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/rostyduff-lower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/rostyduff-lower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/rostyduff-lower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Rostyduff Lower 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) - Ballytoole Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballytoole-lower.md - Ballytoole Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballytoole-upper.md - Clonshannon: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/clonshannon.md - Colliga: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/colliga.md - Coolmoney: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/coolmoney.md - Derrynamuck: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/derrynamuck.md - Knockanarrigan: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockanarrigan.md - Rostyduff Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/rostyduff-upper.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/rostyduff-lower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/rostyduff-lower