Saundersgrove

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Saundersgrove, from 619 m² to 813,490 m² (81.35 ha, 201.02 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 Saundersgrove 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

• 16 Jun 2023Conditional

  an overground slurry storage tank and all ancillary works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23541

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Saundersgrove.

Architectural heritage

• Manger Bridge, bridge, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  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
  Description

  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.

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 Saundersgrove, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2727 (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 Saundersgrove with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Saundersgrove · Garrán Shandair

Area

833,835 m² (83.38 ha, 206.05 acres)

Civil parish

Rathbran, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Tuckmill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Gibraltar, Manger, Mattymount, Saundersgrove Hill, Tuckmill Lower

Placenames

Saundersgrove 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.