Rottenhill

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rottenhill, from 4,206 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres) to 618,726 m² (61.87 ha, 152.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Rottenhill 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.

• 28 Jul 2025Conditional

  new private dwelling with detached garage, private well, new site entrance, waste water treatment unit and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560575

• 25 Oct 2022Conditional

  revised extension design and external façade finishes to that previously granted under planning reference 07/1423 and full planning permission to upgrade the existing septic tank to an oakstown treatment plant with soil polishing filter and all associated site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 221130

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 Rottenhill.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rottenhill.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Rottenhill, 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 Rottenhill.

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

Name

Rottenhill

Area

834,373 m² (83.44 ha, 206.18 acres)

Civil parish

Rathsallagh, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Rathsallagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

291 people lived in 97 households in the Rathsallagh electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballylaffin, Coonanstown, Crossoge, Freynestownhill, Oldcourt, Toolestown

Placenames

Rottenhill 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.