Russellstown

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Russellstown, from 913 m² to 736,607 m² (73.66 ha, 182.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Russellstown 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.

• 18 Aug 2025Conditional

  single storey rear extension consisting of enlargement of kitchen utility, bathroom & bedroom. Upgrade of effluent treatment systems and ancillary works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 25230

• 23 Jul 2025N/a

  single storey rear extension consisting of enlargement of kitchen utility, bathroom & bedroom. Upgrade of effluent treatment systems and ancillary works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 25207

• 9 Jun 2025N/a

  single storey rear extension consisting of enlargement of kitchen, utility, bathroom and bedroom, upgrade of effluent treatment system and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 25154

• 7 Jul 2023Conditional

  modifications to the existing attic room layout consisting of Construction of a dormer to the rear along with velux windows to the front sides and rear along with modifications to some window opes along with modifications to the internal layout of existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360145

• 23 Sept 2022Refused

  dormer bungalow and double garage with on site waste water treatment plant with sand polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221036

• 22 Aug 2022N/a

  new single storey three bedroom house, including solar panels, new domestic garage, new domestic road entrance, packaged foul drainage treatment system and sand polishing filter, surface water soakaway, landscaping, and all ancillary works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22915

• 29 Jul 2022N/a

  new single storey three bedroom house, including solar panels, new domestic garage, new domestic road entrance, packaged foul drainage system and sand polishing filter, surface water soakaway, landscaping, and all ancillary works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22832

• 31 May 2022N/a

  new single storey three bedroom house, including solar panels, new domestic garage, new domestic road entrance, foul drainage treatment system and sand polishing filter, surface water soakaway, landscaping and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22579

• 8 Feb 2022N/a

  dormer bungalow and double garage with on site wastewater treatment plant with sand polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22104

• 29 Jan 2021Conditional

  the development will consist of a new wider vehicular access off the L8363 local secondary road with new gates and forecourt, flank walls and landscaping and local surface water drainage adjustments with removal of an additional 2.1 m section of stone boundary wall to facilitate the propose new access arrangements from that originally permitted. Works will also include further adjustments to the road edge to facilitate sightlines and associated signage than permitted under Wicklow CC Ref. 18/1011. The proposed access arrangements will following the implementation of the proposed development under this application enable a new one way traffic flow system through the existing main visitor car park with exist only via the new entrance and entry only through the existing main gate. This requires condition no. 2 of Wicklow CC Ref. 18/1011 to be amended

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2173

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Poulaphouca Reservoir SPA 004063
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Poulaphouca Reservoir 000731

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Russellstown.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Russellstown, about 1 in 20 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 low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2911 (ZIP).

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

Name

Russellstown · Baile an Ruiséalaigh

Area

945,385 m² (94.54 ha, 233.61 acres)

Civil parish

Burgage, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Lower

Electoral division

Burgage, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,243 people lived in 656 households in the Burgage electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 58% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boystown or Baltyboys Lower, Boystown or Baltyboys Upper, Burgage Moyle, Glashina, Russborough, Tulfarris

Placenames

Russellstown 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.