# Saundersgrove, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rathbran, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Garrán Shandair. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 833,835 m² (83.38 ha, 206.05 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 16,898 m² (1.69 ha, 4.18 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rathbran, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/rathbran.md - Barony: Talbotstown Upper - Electoral division: Tuckmill, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 314 people lived in 104 households in the Tuckmill electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 4% 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/55019 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 251210 - Centre: latitude 52.974226, longitude -6.691228 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Saundersgrove, from 619 m² to 813,490 m² (81.35 ha, 201.02 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1277335: 813,490 m² (81.35 ha, 201.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277335.md - Parcel 1262301: 172,911 m² (17.29 ha, 42.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262301.md - Parcel 1264814: 16,898 m² (1.69 ha, 4.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1264814.md - Parcel 1289267: 2,282 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289267.md - Parcel 1265594: 619 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1265594.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Saundersgrove 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 8 May 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560346: Conditional. Permission. construction of a livestock underpass with effluent holding tank and all associated siteworks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560346/0 - 16 Jun 2023, Wicklow County Council 23541: Conditional. Permission. an overground slurry storage tank and all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/23541/0 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) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Saundersgrove. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Manger Bridge, bridge, 1740–1760, Regional interest, registry number 16402114, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WI®no=16402114. Five-arch road bridge over the River Slaney, built c.1750. The bridge is constructed in coursed rubble with granite voussoirs to the semi-circular arches. There are ‘V’ cutwaters to the east face and the low parapets have semi-dressed granite coping. - Saundersgrove, country house, 1920–1930, Regional interest, registry number 16402116, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WI®no=16402116. Detached seven-bay two-storey with attic dormers neo-Queen Anne style country house, built in c.1925 on the site of an house of 1716, burnt down in 1922. The country house is basically rectangular in plan with a relatively shallow full-height hip-roofed bays to the front, a pair of single-storey bays to the rear and a single-storey extension to the north side of c.1970. The walls are finished in painted roughcast and the overhanging hipped roof is slated and has flat-roofed dormers and tall rendered chimneystacks. The entrance consists of a panelled timber door encased with a granite Gibbsian surround with pediment; this surround is said to have belonged to the original house. The windows are largely flat-headed and largely filled with three over three timber sash frames, with casement frames to the dormers. Metal rainwater goods. ## 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 Saundersgrove, 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, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2727, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2727.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/saundersgrove.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/saundersgrove.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/saundersgrove.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Saundersgrove 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) - Gibraltar: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/gibraltar.md - Manger: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/manger.md - Mattymount: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/mattymount.md - Saundersgrove Hill: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/saundersgrove-hill.md - Tuckmill Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/tuckmill-lower.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/saundersgrove - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/saundersgrove