Tornant Upper

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tornant Upper, from 4 m² to 305,132 m² (30.51 ha, 75.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Tornant 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.

• 11 Feb 2026Conditional

  change of house type as granted by planning reference 21/946 and associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660092

• 27 Jun 2025N/a

  two storey dwelling, domestic garage, on-site treatment unit, deep bored well, new entrance, and all associated works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 25175

• 25 Jul 2024Conditional

  the construction of a two storey dwelling, secondary waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter, new residential entrance, landscaping and associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460452

• 24 Mar 2023Conditional

  construction of 1) domestic type bungalow, 2) bored well, 3) secondary sewage treatment system (PE6) with percolation area, 4) all ancillary ground works in association with the above development

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 23289

• 1 Sept 2022N/a

  1) a domestic type bungalow, 2) a separate detached domestic garage, 3) bored well, 4) secondary sewage treatment system (PE6) with percolation area 5) all ancillary ground works in association with the above development

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22955

• 10 Dec 2021Conditional

  minor alterations to the elevation of our dwelling house as granted by Planning Register Reference 21/659 (dwelling house, O Reilly Oaktown sewerage treatment system, domestic garage, bored well, alterations to existing entrance and all ancillary site works)

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211479

• 10 Dec 2021Refused

  of my stable building and yard. Also planning permission sought to construct a single storey dwelling house, O'Reilly Oaktown sewerage treatment system, domestic garage, new entrance, closing up existing farm entrance on my land

  Retention, 2 homes · Wicklow County Council, 211480

• 30 Nov 2021N/a

  minor alterations to the elevation of our dwelling house as granted by Planning Register Reference 21/659 (dwelling house, O Reilly Oaktown sewerage treatment system, domestic garage, bored well, alterations to existing entrance and all ancillary site works)

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211424

• 30 Jul 2021Conditional

  construct a new dwelling house, O'Reilly Oaktown sewerage treatment system, domestic garage, bored well, new entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21946

• 2 Jun 2021Conditional

  to construct a single storey dwelling house, O Reilly Oaktown sewerage treatment system, domestic garage, bored well, alterations to existing entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21659

• 26 Apr 2021Conditional

  dwelling, garage, on-site treatment unit, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21472

• 15 Mar 2021Conditional

  dwelling as constructed on foot of previous grant of permission 98/9293. It is requested that the retention of this development be granted in the absence of the sterilisation agreement placed against the entire landholding by condition 2 of PRR 98/9293. Retention also sought for domestic garage and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21268

• 22 Jan 2021Conditional

  construction of a detached, part single / part two-storey dwelling; the provision of a new vehicular entrance and driveway; the provision of landscaping, including boundary treatments; and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground, including waste water treatment system and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2143

• 4 Jan 2021N/a

  single storey dwelling house, O Reilly Oaktown sewerage treatment system, domestic garage, bored well, alterations to existing entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 212

• 16 Sept 2020N/a

  the construction of a detached, part single/part two storey dwelling; the provision of a new vehicular entrance and driveway; the provision of landscaping, including boundary treatments; and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground, including waste treatment system and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20909

• 9 Sept 2019N/a

  dwelling, garage, on site treatment unit, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19993

• 19 Jan 2017Conditional

  the redevelopment of existing single storey 4 bedroom dwelling of circa 263.4sqm comprising of the following: demolition of various single storey sub-standard extensions circa 111.4sqm demolition of circa 65.6sqm of structurally unsound main part of the single storey dwelling, and for the reconstruction of the dwelling comprising of 4 no. bedrooms, total floor area circa 256.4sqm and all associated residential accommodation, including improvement works to existing access drive, new automated gate, the provision of a new propriority wastewater treatment system to EPA standards and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 1744

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 Tornant Upper.

Recorded monuments

• WI015-036 Megalithic tomb - passage tomb
  Description

  National Monument in state ownership No. 531. Situated on the NE edge of a ridge (running E-W) with extensive views over the surrounding undulating terrain. Circular mound (diam. 18.6m; H 1.6m) with a flat-bottomed, partly artificial gully immediately to the W, and a shallow fosse (Wth 1m; D 0.5m) at the SE. There is a hollow (diam. 1.5m; D 0.5m) at the top of the mound. A decorated stone, now in the NMI, is reputed to have come from this site. (Price 1953, 200; Shee-Twohig 1981, 225-6) 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. 1/1958).

• WI015-037 Stone circle
  Description

  National Monument in state ownership No. 531. Listed as a 'stone circle' in the SMR (1986) and as a possible 'stone circle' in the RMP (1995). On the saddle of a rocky E-W ridge with a marked slope to the S. A scatter of mainly split quartz boulders to the NE of enclosure (WI015-038----) which may be part of a displaced revetment. One of the boulder fragments has a curved groove (Wth 0.02m; D 0.01m) on its flat upper surface. Price (1934, 38-39) mentions that the 'circle' had a diameter of 'about 120 feet' (c. 36.5m) and was formed by twelve stones nearly all broken by blasting. A single large stone ocurs to the SW (of WI015-038----). Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 21 December 2012 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 150/1940).

• WI015-038 Enclosure
  Description

  National Monument in state ownership No. 531. Set into a marked N/NE-facing slope at the E edge of a ridge. Circular site (diam. 15m) on an artificial platform (H 0.4-2m), defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.4m). A scatter of broken boulders at the NE may be part of a displaced revetment. No indication of an entrance or internal features. Another enclosure (WI015-083----) lies closeby to the E. 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. 150/1940).

• WI015-039 Standing stone
  Description

  A stump of a granite block c. 150m NNE of enclosure (WI015-038----) which Price (1934, 38-9) suggested was an outlier to a possible 'stone circle' ( WI015-037----). No visible surface indication. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 21 December 2012 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1958).

• WI015-083 Enclosure
  Description

  National Monument in state ownership No. 531. Built on the summit of a natural knoll at the E end of a low E-W ridge. Circular steep-sided platform (diam. 12m) defined by a slight earthen bank. A sunken trackway at the W separates it from another small enclosure (WI015-038----). 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. 150/1940).

• WI015-092 Burial
  Description

  In 1956, during the bulldozing at a mound as part of land improvement works, the human skeleton of a middle aged, adult male was discovered. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol. 2, 435) Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 24 July 2012 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1958).

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tornant 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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Tornant Upper · Tor Neanta Uachtarach

Area

1,479,111 m² (147.91 ha, 365.5 acres)

Civil parish

Dunlavin, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Lower

Electoral division

Dunlavin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunlavin electoral division: 1,580 people in 526 households; 66% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballylaffin, Boherboy, Coonanstown, Dunlavin Upper, Loughmogue Upper, Tornant Lower

Placenames

Tornant 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.