Talbotstown Upper

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Talbotstown Upper, from 240 m² to 539,630 m² (53.96 ha, 133.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Talbotstown Upper 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.

• 21 Feb 2017N/a

  creation of new new agricultural entrances onto a public road to move livestock

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17184

• 13 Feb 2017N/a

  creation of two new agricultural entrances onto a public road to move livestock

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17150

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Talbotstown Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WI027-051 Moated site
  Description

  Situated on level ground in gently undulating terrain. A well-preserved moated site consisting of a large trapezoidal enclosure (int. dims. 50m E-W; 46m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.8-2.2m; max. int. H 1m) with an internal wall-facing (H 0.8m) and an external stone facing in a slight batter to the base of the fosse. The fosse (Wth c. 8m; D 2-2.5m) is steep-sided and flat-bottomed. There is an entrance in the E side (Wth 6m) with a causeway (Wth 5m) across the fosse. Three small towers survive; the best preserved is in the NW angle, which projects slightly (c. 1m) beyond the line of the bank. There is a tower at the midpoint of the W wall, another towards the E end of the N wall, and there may have been a fourth in the NE corner. The latter seems to have had internal access via a flight of stone steps. No visible internal features. 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 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 148/1940).

Architectural heritage

• Saint Brigid's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1835–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-cell gable-fronted Classical style Catholic church, built c.1845. To the rear there is a lower gable-ended single-storey with attic vestry projection. The walls are constructed partly in dressed granite, partly in squared granite, partly in rubble and partly finished in render. The vestry walls are finished in roughcast. The south-facing three-bay front has giant order pilasters with the gable arranged as a tympanum. The pitched roof is slated and has an octagonal cupola in dressed granite with slated hipped roof and cross finial. The pitched roof of the vestry is also slated. There are three entrances to the front, each with panelled timber double doors and moulded architraves with entablatures and cornices. The windows are tall with semi-circular heads and replacement uPVC frames. The building has a roadside setting and is surrounded by a small churchyard. Internally there are bare stone walls (which were undoubtedly originally plastered), tiled floor and an elaborately painted ceiling in Classical style. To the north end there is a Classical style reredos whilst to the south there is a gallery with panelled front with breakfront. The gallery contains a Gothic style organ. c.1970s with open bench pews.

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 Talbotstown Upper, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Talbotstown Upper.

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

Name

Talbotstown Upper · Baile an Talbóidigh Uachtarach

Area

1,296,980 m² (129.7 ha, 320.49 acres)

Civil parish

Kilranelagh, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Talbotstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

456 people lived in 154 households in the Talbotstown electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinroan Lower, Brockna, Colvinstown Lower, Kelsha, Newtown, Talbotstown Lower

Placenames

Talbotstown Upper 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.