Tuckmill Lower

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tuckmill Lower, from 75 m² to 148,957 m² (14.9 ha, 36.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Tuckmill Lower 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.

• 31 Jul 2026N/a

  two-storey dwelling house, bored well, proprietary treatment system and associated percolation area, to construct an agricultural shed adjacent to existing sheds, to upgrade existing roadside entrance for residential use, all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2660679

• 20 Dec 2024N/a

  to erect a two storey dwelling house, effluent treatment system, percolation area, and well and to us existing entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 24500

• 8 Mar 2024Conditional

  alterations to dwelling currently under construction (granted under PL22/527). Alterations include the removal of a granted single storey garage to the side and construction of a connected garage, under ground floor level, with internal access and external vehicular access to the rear of the existing single storey dwelling (under construction and at roof level) minor external alterations to external openings and all associated site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2460137

• 13 Dec 2023Conditional

  demolition of existing rear extension, side attached garage, existing chimneys and front porch to existing dwelling, construction of new rear extension which can be seen from the front of the dwelling, removal of existing sewage system, new wastewater treatment unit & soil polishing filter and associate works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360492

• 17 May 2022Conditional

  single storey dwelling and garage, new entrance and driveway, bored well, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22527

• 3 Dec 2021Conditional

  dwelling, garage, new entrance onto public road, wastewater treatment unit, soil polishing filter, new well and associate works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211450

• 14 Oct 2021Refused

  dwelling,on-site effluent treatment system, well, entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211235

• 5 Oct 2021Conditional

  a detached single storey house, single storey domestic garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area, new water well, new recessed entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211199

• 23 Aug 2017Conditional

  decommissioning and backfilling existing septic tank and replacing same with new wastewater treatment system, new pedestrian entrance in existing stone wall providing access to location of new wastewater treatment system and all associated development works. The works as described above are located close to or within the curtilage of a 'mill building' which is a protected structure as listed in the Wicklow County Development Plan Record of Protected Structures - RPS Reference No 21-13 and also 'Tuckmills Post Box' mounted in the wall along the N81 to the north of the subject site - RPS No 21-12

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 171013

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

• WI027-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on NE-facing ground on the gentle lower slopes of Baltinglass Hill and c. 100m NE of another ringfort (WI027-011----). Oval area (dims. c. 30m NE-SW; c. 25m NW-SE), marked on 1907 OS 6-inch map. Levelled 'a few years' before 1989. 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

• WI027-074 Cist
  Description

  Sherds of two food vessels and a quantity of cremated bones were recovered from a cist in this townland in 1969 (Ó Ríordáin 1972, 236). A pit containing cremated bones was reportedly found nearby a few years before. 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

• WI027-074001 Pit-burial
  Description

  On the lower NE slopes of Tuckmill Hill. A burial containing cremated bones found c. 9m from a cist (WI027-074----). No other details of the find were noted. (Ó Ríordáin 1972, 238, note 8) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 23 October 2012

Architectural heritage

• Mill (water), 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay three-storey water-driven mill, built c.1800, now disused. The walls are constructed in rubble with flush granite quoins, brick dressings to the openings and granite sills. The south elevation is largely finished in roughcast. The gable-ended pitched roof is covered in corrugated asbestos. The entrance consists of a large segmental-headed timber double door. The windows are largely flat-headed and filled with the remains of multiple-pane metal casement frames, however to the second floor level to front there is a row of eyebrow windows. The ground floor windows to front are set within large segmental-headed recesses. The water wheel has been removed. The mill is set back from the roadside and, to the north, is the former miller's house.

• Post box, 1895–1915 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box of c.1905 with Edward VII monogram. The box is now painted green and is set into a roadside rubble wall.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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_2767 (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.

No address of the register names Tuckmill Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Tuckmill Lower · An Muileann Úctha Íochtarach

Area

1,105,331 m² (110.53 ha, 273.13 acres)

Civil parish

Rathbran, and its townlands

Barony

Talbotstown Upper

Electoral division

Tuckmill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tuckmill electoral division: 314 people in 104 households; 87% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinacrow Lower, Coolinarrig Lower, Coolinarrig Upper, Kill, Mattymount, Saundersgrove, Saundersgrove Hill, Tuckmill Hill, Tuckmill Upper

Placenames

Tuckmill Lower 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.