# Valleymount or Cross, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Boystown, barony of Talbotstown Lower, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Chrois. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 759,263 m² (75.93 ha, 187.62 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,948 m² (0.59 ha, 1.47 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Boystown, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/boystown.md - Barony: Talbotstown Lower - Electoral division: Togher, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 387 people lived in 129 households in the Togher electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55010 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 251352 - Centre: latitude 53.102579, longitude -6.520887 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Valleymount or Cross, from 28 m² to 79,656 m² (7.97 ha, 19.68 acres); 43 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1269465: 79,656 m² (7.97 ha, 19.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1269465.md - Parcel 4651372: 69,926 m² (6.99 ha, 17.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4651372.md - Parcel 4755290: 61,181 m² (6.12 ha, 15.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4755290.md - Parcel 4651373: 49,595 m² (4.96 ha, 12.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4651373.md - Parcel 1248236: 45,024 m² (4.5 ha, 11.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1248236.md - Parcel 4649636: 40,077 m² (4.01 ha, 9.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4649636.md - Parcel 4755283: 36,248 m² (3.62 ha, 8.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4755283.md - Parcel 4650592: 26,321 m² (2.63 ha, 6.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4650592.md - Parcel 4755279: 25,717 m² (2.57 ha, 6.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4755279.md - Parcel 1294415: 23,051 m² (2.31 ha, 5.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1294415.md - Parcel 4755285: 21,861 m² (2.19 ha, 5.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4755285.md - Parcel 4651086: 19,279 m² (1.93 ha, 4.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4651086.md - Parcel 1299876: 18,425 m² (1.84 ha, 4.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1299876.md - Parcel 1256409: 17,934 m² (1.79 ha, 4.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1256409.md - Parcel 1277585: 17,719 m² (1.77 ha, 4.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277585.md - Parcel 4650953: 17,223 m² (1.72 ha, 4.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4650953.md - Parcel 1282392: 12,745 m² (1.27 ha, 3.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282392.md - Parcel 1267581: 12,391 m² (1.24 ha, 3.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1267581.md - Parcel 1297386: 12,268 m² (1.23 ha, 3.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1297386.md - Parcel 1270100: 11,769 m² (1.18 ha, 2.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1270100.md - Parcel 1276325: 10,175 m² (1.02 ha, 2.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1276325.md - Parcel 1285532: 8,679 m² (0.87 ha, 2.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285532.md - Parcel 1279888: 8,469 m² (0.85 ha, 2.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1279888.md - Parcel 1290124: 8,435 m² (0.84 ha, 2.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1290124.md - Parcel 1257817: 7,014 m² (0.7 ha, 1.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1257817.md - Parcel 4755303: 5,948 m² (0.59 ha, 1.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4755303.md - Parcel 4755300: 5,773 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4755300.md - Parcel 4650961: 5,634 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4650961.md - Parcel 1258376: 5,612 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1258376.md - Parcel 4650955: 5,577 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4650955.md - Parcel 1272824: 5,523 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1272824.md - Parcel 1278871: 5,080 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278871.md - Parcel 4651087: 4,703 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4651087.md - Parcel 1287374: 4,254 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1287374.md - Parcel 1290752: 4,214 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1290752.md - Parcel 5304784: 2,669 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5304784.md - Parcel 4755308: 2,308 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4755308.md - Parcel 1282810: 2,289 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1282810.md - Parcel 4651088: 2,062 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4651088.md - Parcel 1288107: 1,981 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288107.md - Parcel 1278507: 1,945 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278507.md - Parcel 4649999: 1,609 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4649999.md - Parcel 1260152: 1,462 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1260152.md - Parcel 5727304: 789 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5727304.md - Parcel 4962245: 730 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4962245.md - Parcel 4543267: 534 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4543267.md - Parcel 1267826: 486 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1267826.md - Parcel 1291227: 399 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1291227.md - Parcel 1290382: 266 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1290382.md - Parcel 1262491: 187 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262491.md - Parcel 5304789: 28 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5304789.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Valleymount or Cross in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 10 Jul 2026, Wicklow County Council 2660619: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. storey & a half type dwelling, on-site effluent disposal system to current EPA guidelines, detached domestic garage, with access via recessed entrance previously granted under PPRR 25/60419 and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660619/0 - 6 Jun 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560419: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Planning permission for dormer type dwelling, on-site effluent disposal system to current EPA guidelines, domestic outbuilding, recessed entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560419/0 - 2 May 2023, Wicklow County Council 23422: Conditional. Permission. change of use applies to the ground floor front room and associated stores which were formerly a shop and post office and will change to residential use; the extension is for a single storey kitchen and dining room all to the rear; the alterations include; the addition of a flat roof dormer and rooflight to the existing rear lean-to at first floor level to provide a bedroom with adequate head-room; replacement of non-original front doors and windows (the historic sash windows will be repaired); repair and alteration of the existing single-storey flat-roofed store at the side; internal alterations and repair of the protected structure; alterations of the boundary walls to improve the safety of the existing vehicle egress; the resulting house will be a part-single storey, part-two-storey four bedroom house. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/23422/0 - 23 Dec 2020, Wicklow County Council 201327: N/a. Permission. demolish a single storey extension at rear, erect a pitched roof canopy at rear, erect a single storey extension at front of dwelling. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/201327/0 - 23 Mar 2017, Wicklow County Council 17307: Unconditional. Permission. greenway. Construct a new crushed stone track in order to create a walking & cycling greenway which will follow the edge of the Blessington Lakes together with the upgrading of the existing tracks commencing in the town of Blessington and following a route close to the shoreline through the townlands of Baltyboys Lower, Tulfarris, Rathballylong, Baltyboys Upper, Monamuck, Valleymount, Annacarney, Carrigacurra, Ballyknockan, Ballynastockan, Lackan, Sroughan, Carrig, Knockieran Upper, Knockieran Lower, Blessington and Burgage More and the villages of Valleymount, Ballyknockan and Lacken before returning to Blessington at Knockieran Bridge. Upgrading works will include widening of existing track and laying of geotextile with a surface layer of crushed stone surface. Construction works will involve shallow excavation, laying of geotextile with a surface layer of crushed stone surface, placement of apprx 100 culverts, 18 light bridges over larger streams, fencing and minor landscaping. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/17307/0 - 18 Jan 2017, Wicklow County Council 1739: N/a. Permission. new crushed stone track in order to create a walking and cycling Greenway which will follow the edge of the Blessington Lakes together with upgrading of existing tracks commencing in the town of Blessington and following a route close to the shoreline through the townlands of Baltyboys Lower, Tulfarris, Rathballylong, Baltyboys Upper, Monamuck, Valleymount, Annacarney, Carrigacurra, Ballyknockan, Ballynastockan, Lackan, Sroughan and the villages of Valleymount, Ballyknockan and Lacken before returning to Blessington at Knockieran Bridge. Upgarding works will include widening of existing track and laying of geotextile with a surface layer of crushed stone surface. Construction works will involve shallow excavation, laying of geotextile with a surface layer of crushed stone surface. placement of approx 100 culverts, 18 light bridges over larger streams, fencing and minor landscaping. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/1739/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Poulaphouca Reservoir SPA, site code 004063, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004063 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Poulaphouca Reservoir, site code 000731 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Valleymount or Cross. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Saint Joseph's Catholic Church, presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1840–1850, Regional interest, registry number 16401001, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WI®no=16401001. Detached three-bay two-storey parochial house, dated 1845. To the rear of the building is a small single-storey return and a small (and possibly later) single-storey lean-to. The walls are finished in painted lined render with granite quoins, whilst the hipped roof is slated and has rendered chimneystacks. The entrance consists of a panelled timber door set within a granite portico, (said to have come from Lord Downshire’s house in Blessington), with Doric columns supporting a flat roof with projecting cornice with dentils below. Above the portico is an elliptical fanlight. The windows are flat-headed and have timber sash frames, either six over six or tripartite. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The house is set within a relatively spacious garden enclosed from the roadside by a rendered wall with cast-iron carriage gates, with the church the house relates to, (St Joseph’s Roman Catholic church), situated just beyond to the south side. - Saint Joseph's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1800–1805, Regional interest, registry number 16401002, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WI®no=16401002. Detached four-bay single-storey Catholic church, dated 1803, but with distinctive pinnacled front façade and porch added c.1835. The building consists of a rectangular gabled nave with large hipped roof side aisles, a hipped roof chancel with gabled vestry extension, and a full width projecting front porch. The front façade and porch are said to have been designed either by a former priest inspired by churches he saw on a visit to Malta, or by parishioners who had visited New Mexico (present day Texas). The porch is constructed in granite with pilasters rising above the level parapet into piers topped with tall decorative pinnacles; the main façade beyond also has a level parapet, which totally obscures the gable, and is topped with a bellcote and piers with pinnacles as the porch, the latter rising from pilasters also as the porch. Between the pilasters the façade is finished in painted roughcast, as are the other walls of the building. All sections of the roof are slated with a cross finial to the east gable of the nave and a granite chimneystack to the vestry. The entrance (in something of a contrast to the rest of the front) consists of a Tudor-arched timber double door with moulded dripstone and shield-shaped panels above. The majority of the windows have pointed arch heads and are filled with stained glass windows of various dates. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The church is set back from the roadside, its forecourt enclosed from the road by a rendered wall with gateways separated by a pier surmounted by a large granite cross, the outer piers having pinnacles similar to the porch and front parapet of the church itself. Internally the church consists of a single space with side aisles separated by colonnades and the chancel set beyond a large pointed arch opening. The walls are plastered and painted and the ceiling is timber-lined with the cross brace trusses exposed. The floor is largely carpeted and the seating consists of plain c.1980s bench pews. The stained glass windows date from the 1930s with those to the side aisles by Harry Clarke and those to the chancel by Hubert McGoldrick. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: the EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Valleymount or Cross. - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Valleymount or Cross. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/valleymount-or-cross.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/valleymount-or-cross.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/valleymount-or-cross.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Valleymount or Cross with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Annacarney: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/annacarney.md - Ballinahown: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballinahown.md - Ballyknockan: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyknockan-250232.md - Blackditches Lower: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/blackditches-lower.md - Boystown or Baltyboys Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/boystown-or-baltyboys-upper.md - Carrigacurra: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/carrigacurra.md - Monamuck: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/monamuck.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/valleymount-or-cross - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/valleymount-or-cross