# Russellstown, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Burgage, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Baile an Ruiséalaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 945,385 m² (94.54 ha, 233.61 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,000 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 10 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Burgage, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/burgage.md - Barony: Talbotstown Lower - Electoral division: Burgage, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/54652 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 251206 - Centre: latitude 53.141789, longitude -6.555525 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Russellstown, from 913 m² to 736,607 m² (73.66 ha, 182.02 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5547648: 736,607 m² (73.66 ha, 182.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5547648.md - Parcel 1263794: 96,659 m² (9.67 ha, 23.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1263794.md - Parcel 1277498: 34,745 m² (3.47 ha, 8.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277498.md - Parcel 1268270: 27,714 m² (2.77 ha, 6.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268270.md - Parcel 3321835: 11,318 m² (1.13 ha, 2.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3321835.md - Parcel 5033953: 9,292 m² (0.93 ha, 2.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5033953.md - Parcel 1282300: 4,103 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282300.md - Parcel 1274547: 4,006 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1274547.md - Parcel 1275095: 4,000 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1275095.md - Parcel 1271755: 3,889 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271755.md - Parcel 1259183: 2,321 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1259183.md - Parcel 1280582: 2,234 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1280582.md - Parcel 1296122: 2,188 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1296122.md - Parcel 1297469: 2,115 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1297469.md - Parcel 1278936: 1,472 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278936.md - Parcel 1298718: 1,250 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1298718.md - Parcel 1257964: 913 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1257964.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 10 applications, newest first. - 18 Aug 2025, Wicklow County Council 25230: Conditional. Permission. single storey rear extension consisting of enlargement of kitchen utility, bathroom & bedroom. Upgrade of effluent treatment systems and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/25230/0 - 23 Jul 2025, Wicklow County Council 25207: N/a. Permission. single storey rear extension consisting of enlargement of kitchen utility, bathroom & bedroom. Upgrade of effluent treatment systems and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/25207/0 - 9 Jun 2025, Wicklow County Council 25154: N/a. Permission, 1 home. single storey rear extension consisting of enlargement of kitchen, utility, bathroom and bedroom, upgrade of effluent treatment system and all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/25154/0 - 7 Jul 2023, Wicklow County Council 2360145: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360145/0 - 23 Sept 2022, Wicklow County Council 221036: Refused. Permission. dormer bungalow and double garage with on site waste water treatment plant with sand polishing filter and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/221036/0 - 22 Aug 2022, Wicklow County Council 22915: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/22915/0 - 29 Jul 2022, Wicklow County Council 22832: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/22832/0 - 31 May 2022, Wicklow County Council 22579: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/22579/0 - 8 Feb 2022, Wicklow County Council 22104: N/a. Permission, 1 home. dormer bungalow and double garage with on site wastewater treatment plant with sand polishing filter and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/22104/0 - 29 Jan 2021, Wicklow County Council 2173: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2173/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Poulaphouca Reservoir SPA, site code 004063, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004063 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Poulaphouca Reservoir, site code 000731 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Russellstown. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Russellstown. ## 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 Russellstown, about 1 in 20 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, 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2911.zip (ZIP). - 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/russellstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/russellstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/russellstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Russellstown 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) - Boystown or Baltyboys Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/boystown-or-baltyboys-lower.md - Boystown or Baltyboys Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/boystown-or-baltyboys-upper.md - Burgage Moyle: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/burgage-moyle.md - Glashina: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/glashina.md - Russborough: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/russborough.md - Tulfarris: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/tulfarris.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/russellstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/russellstown