Babeswood

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Babeswood, from 1,621 m² to 140,052 m² (14.01 ha, 34.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Babeswood 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.

• 13 Jun 2024Refused

  Permission for the proposed deposition of clean fill material of approximately 2,000 cubic meters to remediate the site levels to a consistent gradient

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2460325

• 12 Dec 2023Conditional

  Retention of works differing from the previous planning permission granted 05/143. These works consist of: - Ground floor bay window, internal layout in the attic conversion and 1st floor rear Dormer with balcony, and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360519

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 Babeswood.

Recorded monuments

• LH015-001 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  Sub-circular enclosure (max. dims c. 132m E-W, c. 116m N-S) showing as the cropmark of a fosse feature on aerial photograph (CUCAP: BDG 80) and incorporating a curved field boundary NE-SE and part of the townland boundary with Newtowndarver at W. A second internal curving fosse feature at E may represent part of an inner enclosure. On the aerial photograph two parallel cropmark fosse features extend NW from the perimeter at N. The above description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revised upload: 2 June 2017

• LH015-037 Cross-slab
  Description

  This slab was discovered by chance in 2001 in a field in Babeswood. The slab is broken and its extremity mesures are 0.13 H, 0.26m W and 0.045m T. Each of the four sides is broken but the cross-design is almost complete. The cross is set inside a rame which formed by a double incised margin: only parts of two sides of the frame remains. The cross is similarly formed with double incesed lines and comprises the remains of an equal-armed Maltese cross with rounded armpits. Within each remaining terminal are set three dots and outside the cross, within each armpit, is a further dot. At the centre of the cross is the remains of an inscription comprising four or five letters. These are incised in one horizontal line and the following has been read: da[ic.]. The reading of the letters within the square brackets is uncertain and the dot indicates a possible remnant of a fith letter. The letters are likely to represent a person's name. This slab is on display in the County Museum, Dundalk (see LH007-189----). (Okasha 2005) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 14 November 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Babeswood with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Babeswood · Coill an Bhábaigh

Area

406,326 m² (40.63 ha, 100.41 acres)

Civil parish

Dromiskin, and its townlands

Barony

Louth

Electoral division

Dromiskin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dromiskin electoral division: 2,364 people in 800 households; 85% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Newrath, Newtowndarver

Placenames

Babeswood 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.