Saundersgrove Hill

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Saundersgrove Hill, from 1,800 m² to 290,787 m² (29.08 ha, 71.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Saundersgrove Hill 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.

• 8 May 2025Conditional

  construction of a livestock underpass with effluent holding tank and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560346

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781

Recorded monuments

• WI021-048 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a marked W-facing hillslope to the N of an ornamental avenue leading to Saundersgrove House, c. 250m W of another enclosure (WI021-049----). Circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) shown as copse of trees on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is possibly a tree-ring or landscape feature. 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

• WI021-049 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a marked W-facing hillslope to the N of an ornamental avenue leading to Saundersgrove House, c. 250m E of another enclosure (WI021-048----). Circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) shown as an enclosed copse of trees on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is possibly a tree-ring or landscape feature. 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

• WI021-050 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a gentle SW-facing slope on the floor of a stream valley. Circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) marked on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2766 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Saundersgrove Hill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Saundersgrove Hill · Cnoc Gharrán Shandair

Area

786,227 m² (78.62 ha, 194.28 acres)

Civil parish

Rathbran, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Tuckmill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tuckmill electoral division: 314 people in 104 households; 87% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinacrow Lower, Ballinacrow Upper, Manger, Saundersgrove, Stratford, Tuckmill Lower

Placenames

Saundersgrove Hill 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.