Tomcoyle Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Killiskey, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow
- Area
- 51.8 ha
- 128 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 4,694 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tomcoyle Upper, from 250 m² to 159,620 m² (15.96 ha, 39.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Tomcoyle 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
15 May 2024Conditional
the construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto public road and associate works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460272
8 Apr 2022Refused
comprising the importation and deposition of inert subsoil and topsoil for land profiling and recontouring purposes at an existing agricultural holding and all ancillary site works. The purpose of this work is to improve the site for agriculture. A Certificate of Registration under the Waste Management (Facility Permit and Registration Regulations) SI 821 of 2007 as amended is required for this development. Permission is also sought for temporary site entrance to facilitate the development .
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22361
1 Nov 2021N/a
comprising the importation & deposition of inert subsoil and topsoil for land profiling and recontouring purposes at an existing agricultural holding and all ancillary site works. The purpose of this work is to improve the site for agriculture. A Certificate of Registration under the Waste Management (Facility Permit and Registration Regulations) SI 821 of 2007 as amended is required for this development. Permission is also sought for temporary site entrance to facilitate the development.
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211307
6 Apr 2021Conditional
change of house type to that granted under planning ref 20/390 and associate works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21367
27 Apr 2020Conditional
dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit & polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto public road and associate works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20390
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tomcoyle Upper.
Recorded monuments
- WI018-018 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a very gentle NE-facing slope. Circular enclosure (diam. 32m) hachured 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 Tomcoyle Upper.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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_3318 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Tomcoyle Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Tomcoyle Upper
- Area
- 518,051 m² (51.81 ha, 128.01 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killiskey, and its townlands
- Barony
- Newcastle
- Electoral division
- Killiskey, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killiskey electoral division: 1,637 people in 570 households; 79% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyduff Upper, Ballymoneen, Boleynass Lower, Carrowbawn, Knockadreet
- Placenames
- Tomcoyle 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.