Ballymascanlan

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymascanlan, from 237 m² to 199,512 m² (19.95 ha, 49.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Ballymascanlan 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.

• 3 May 2023Refused

  Permission for new horticultural farm buildings including packing and farm shop building and associated signage, 2 no. polytunnel buildings, outdoor planting area, effluent treatment plant and percolation area, associated parking and all associated site development works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 23220

• 14 Sept 2021Conditional

  Permission for a new waste water treatment system, alterations to site boundaries and associated site development works. *Significant Further Information Received on 14/03/2022 including Natura Impact Statement*

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211141

• 14 Sept 2021Conditional

  Permission for a dwelling house, new waste water treatment system and associated site development works *Significant further information received on 14/03/2022 including natura impact statement*

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211142

• 5 Dec 2017Conditional

  Permission to construct a new single-storey garage and associated site works adjoining the previous approved new house (planning reference 1684).

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17895

• 7 Feb 2017Conditional

  Retention permission of development that consists of revised boundaries to dwelling previously granted under planning reference 95/681.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 1773

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: Dundalk Bay SAC 000455
• Special Protection Area: Dundalk Bay SPA 004026
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dundalk Bay 000455

Recorded monuments

• LH004-073 Enclosure
  Description

  The following 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 upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Sub-circular enclosure (max. dims. 40m N-S, 35.5m E-W) bounded by the remains of earthen bank. Widening of bank forms a mound at W.

• LH004-127001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Discovered during archaeological test trenching (Excavation Licence No. 96E0039). Part of a curving ditch (Wth 2.5 - 3m; max. D 1.85m) containing animal bones and mussel shells was uncovered. Proposed development was moved to avoid further impact on the site. The available evidence has led to the suggestion 'that this was the ditch of an enclosure of the Early Christian period' (Campbell 1997, 73). Souterrain (LH004-127002-) situated c. 10m N of where ditch was excavated. Reference: Campbell, K. 1997 Ballymacscanlan. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1996: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 73 (No. 258). Bray. Wordwell. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 18 November 2011

• LH004-127002 Souterrain
  Description

  The following 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 upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Discovered during roadworks in 1973. Access was gained through a collapsed lintel in the middle of a passage. The souterrain in its present state consists of a section of drystone-built passage (L c. 7m, Wth c. 1.2m, H c. 1.5m) blocked by collapse at both ends. (CLAJ 1973, 85). Evidence for a probable associated enclosure (LH004-127001-) was subsequently uncovered in 1996.

• LH007-017001 Church
  Description

  The following 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 upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Present church, dating to late eighteenth to early nineteenth century, built on site of an earlier church, which was in disrepair in 1622. (CLAJ 1941, 7; Tempest 1952b, 71)

• LH007-017002 Graveyard
  Description

  Rectangular enclosed area (map dims. c. 80m NE-SW; c. 36m E-W) surrounding church (LH007-017001-) indicated on 1835 'OS 6-inch' map. Present church on site of earlier church. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 23 November 2011

• LH007-018 Souterrain
  Description

  A 'cave' is marked immediately S of the S boundary of Ballymascanlan church (LH007-017001-) on the 1835 'OS 6-inch' map. No trace of it was visible in 1966 when inspected by ASI. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 23 November 2011

• LH007-115 Castle - tower house
  Description

  The following 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 upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Situated in low-lying ground close to the W bank of the Ballymascanlan River. It is constructed with coursed rubble granite and has only parts of its S and E walls remaining. The walls have been defaced except for a small portion of the S face of the only remaining angle (SE). The walls appear to have been built against a raised area but this impression may be due to a build-up of collapse inside the structure. The walls are about 4m high externally, 2m high internally, and 1.5-2m wide with a slight batter. The present length of the E wall is c. 13m but it appears to have run further N. The S wall is c. 15m long and runs W into the slope of the natural hill. The remains are featureless but it almost certainly belongs to the late medieval period and could well have been a tower house. A castle is marked in this area by the Down Survey, appears on a map of the escheated counties of Ulster in 1609 (CLAJ 1929, 65), and is marked also on a map of c. 1568 (CLAJ 1985, 43).

Architectural heritage

• Ballymascanlan House, gate lodge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey with attic former gate lodge, built c. 1820, now in private domestic use. Rectangular-plan, two-bay two-storey flat-roofed extension to east. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, smooth rendered corbelled chimneystack, oversailing eaves, painted timber soffit, carved ends to exposed rafters, half-round gutters, circular cast-iron downpipes. Lime-washed roughcast rendered walling, smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings, painted stone sills, painted smooth rendered reveals, painted timber casement windows. Round-headed door opening, painted smooth rendered reveals and soffit, painted timber spoked fanlight, painted timber vertically-sheeted door. Situated at sharp corner of road, giving access to Ballymascanlon Estate.

• Worker's house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay single-storey with attic house, built c. 1820, as part of a terrace of seven. Now disused. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, metal fixed casement roof lights, unpainted red brick flat-capped chimneystack, square-profile base, tall diamond-shaped shaft, half-round uPVC gutters bracketed to eaves. Painted roughcast-rendered walling. Square-headed window openings, painted smooth rendered reveals painted stone sills, painted timber frame and mullion, paired painted timber traceried plain glazed panes. Square-headed door opening, painted stone plinth, curved reveals, painted timber multi-paned overlight, painted timber vertically-sheeted door, central cast-iron letterbox and door knob. Street fronted, flower beds to front (south-west), end of terrace of seven houses.

• Worker's house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay single-storey with attic house, built c. 1820, as part of a terrace of seven. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, metal fixed casement roof lights, unpainted red brick flat-capped chimneystack base, paired tall diamond-shaped flat-capped shafts, moulded half-round uPVC gutters bracketed to eaves. Painted roughcast-rendered walling. Square-headed window opening, painted smooth rendered reveals, painted stone sills, painted timber fixed-casement window. Square-headed door opening, painted stone plinth, curved reveals, painted timber vertically-sheeted door with central iron letterbox and door knob. Street fronted, flower bed to front, one of seven terraced houses.

• Worker's house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay single-storey with attic house, built c. 1820, as part of a terrace of seven. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, metal fixed casement roof light, unpainted red brick flat-capped chimneystack base, paired tall diamond-shaped flat-capped shafts, half-round moulded uPVC gutters fixed to eaves. Painted roughcast rendered walling. Square-headed window opening, painted smooth rendered reveals, painted stone sill, painted timber top-hung casement window. Square-headed door opening, elevation, curved reveals, painted stone plinth, painted timber and glass vertically-sheeted door. Street fronted, flower bed to front, climbing shrubbery up front elevation walls, woodland area to north-east, one of seven terraced houses.

• Worker's house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey with attic house, built c. 1820, as part of a terrace of seven. Rectangular-plan with gable-fronted two-bays. Pitched slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, raised gable stone verge coping, unpainted red brick flat-capped chimneystack bases, tall diamond-shaped flat-capped stacks, moulded half-round uPVC gutters bracketed to eaves. Painted smooth rendered walling. Square-headed window openings, painted smooth rendered reveals, painted stone sills, uPVC top-hung casement windows. Square-headed door opening, painted timber door frame, painted stone plinth blocks, painted timber and glass door. Street fronted, flower beds to front, climbing shrubbery to front elevation, woodlands to north-east, central house of seven terraced houses.

• Worker's house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay single-storey with attic house, built c. 1820, as part of a terrace of seven, now disused. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, metal fixed casement roof lights, unpainted red brick flat-capped chimneystack base, tall diamond-shaped flat-capped chimney shaft, cast-iron gutters bracketed to eaves, cast-iron downpipe. Painted roughcast-rendered walling. Square-headed window openings, painted smooth rendered reveals, painted stone sills, painted timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening, painted stone plinth blocks, painted timber moulded door frame, painted timber and glass panelled door. Street fronting, flower beds to front, climbing shrubbery up front elevation, woodland and area to north-east, one of seven terraced houses.

• Worker's house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay single-storey with attic house, built c. 1820, as part of a terrace of seven, now disused. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, metal fixed casement roof light, unpainted red brick flat-capped chimneystack base, tall diamond-shaped flat-capped chimneyshaft, cast-iron gutters bracketed to eaves, cast-iron downpipe. Painted roughcast-rendered walling. Square-headed window opening, painted smooth rendered reveals, painted stone sills, painted timber casement window, painted timber traceried plain glazed panes. Square-headed door opening, painted stone plinth block, painted timber moulded door frame, painted timber vertically-sheeted door, central iron letterbox and door knob. Street fronted, flower beds to front, climbing shrubbery to main elevation, woodlands to north-east, one of seven terraced houses.

• Worker's house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace two-bay single-storey with attic house, built c. 1820, as part of a terrace of seven, now disused. Rectangular-plan with single-pitched corrugated-iron extension to south-east gable. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, unpainted red brick flat-capped chimneystack base, tall red brick diamond-shaped flat-capped chimneyshaft, painted timber scalloped bargeboards, half-round, cast-iron gutters bracketed to eaves. Painted roughcast-rendered walling. Square-headed window openings, painted stone sills, painted smooth rendered chamfered reveals, painted timber casement window, painted timber traceried plain glazed panes to front, painted timber one-over-one sliding sash windows to gable. Square-headed door opening, painted timber moulded door frame, painted stone plinth block, painted timber vertically-sheeted door, latch handle. Street fronted, flower beds to front, climbing shrubbery to main elevation, woodlands to north-east.

• Ballymascanlan Bridge, bridge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-span road-over-river stone bridge, built c. 1860. Squared-and-snecked rubble stone spandrels and parapet, squared rubble stone coping. Round-headed arches, squared rubble voussoirs. Double bitumen carriage, grass verges.

• Ballymascanlan House, house, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay two-storey over basement with attic house, built 1863, incorporating fabric of earlier building, now in use as hotel. L-plan to main block with projecting gable-fronted bays to south-west, south-east and north-west elevations, two-storey canted bays to south-west, north-east elevations and canted bay to south-east elevation. Walled garden to north of main house. Pitched slate roofs behind parapet with lead lined ridges and valleys, smooth rendered corbelled chimneystacks, terracotta pots, stone verge coping, finials and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walling with chamfered ashlar stone plinth, stone string course to second floor sill level and stone courses to bay. Square-headed window openings with replacement timber casement windows, chamfered reveals with stone transoms, mullions and hood mouldings, pointed arch niches to attic in gables with chamfered reveals and hood mouldings, continuous hood moulding to second floor of north-east elevation. Tudor arched door opening to main door with timber panelled door, plain glazed overlight, concave reveal, floral niches and hood moulding, set in projecting porch gable with segmental-headed porch with moulded surround surmounted by cornicing, plaque and finials, stone buttresses to west angle and engaged polygonal column to north angle, replacement limestone threshold, square-headed door opening with replacement glazed door, casement overlight, stone transom, chamfered reveal and hood moulding, approached by three stone steps. Modern hotel extensions abut to north, south and east elevations, largely obscuring house. Set within own grounds with range of slate-roofed rubble walled outbuildings with clock tower to north-east and gate lodge to entrance in north-west.

• Ballymascanlan House, gate lodge, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey with attic former gate lodge, built c. 1840. Gable-fronted porch to central bay of south-east elevation, lean-to extension to north-west. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, red brick corbelled chimneystack, terracotta pot, roof lights to extension, overhanging eaves, painted timber soffits, painted timber bargeboards, uPVC rainwater goods. Coursed rubble walling to main block, red brick walling to porch, squared coursed sandstone and red brick to extension. Square-headed window openings, red brick block-and-start surrounds, red brick relieving arch over timber lintel, tooled granite sills, painted timber hood moulding and casement windows. Square-headed door opening, red brick block-and-start surround, timber lintel painted timber sheeted door, round-headed door opening to porch, cast- and wrought-iron gate, granite threshold. Square-profile granite gate piers, wrought-iron gate to north-west. Set back from main road within grounds of Ballymascanlon House.

• Saint Mary's Parochial Hall, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey parochial hall, built c. 1880. Rectangular-plan with projecting gable-fronted porch to south-west, lean-to extension to north-east. Pitched slate roof, clay crested ridge tiles, red brick corbelled chimneystack, painted timber moulded bargeboards, timber finials, overhanging eaves, painted timber soffits, painted timber fascia, moulded cast-iron gutters, square-profile downpipes, decorative lugs. Red brick Flemish bond walling, projecting chamfered plinth, cast-iron ventilation grids, blue-black brick banding to sill and lintel level. Segmental-headed window openings, red and blue/black brick arches, granite sills, painted timber vertically sheeted shutters. Segmental-headed door opening, red and blue/black brick arches, painted timber blind overlight, square-headed painted timber sheeted door, granite threshold, concrete step and path. Coursed rubble boundary wall to north, east and west, red brick Flemish bond plinth walling to south-west, stone coping, decorative cast-iron railing and gate. Sited within own grounds to side of road, south of church.

• Saint Mary's Church (Ballymascanlan), church/chapel, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Board of First Fruits style Church of Ireland church, built c. 1820. Cruciform-plan, engaged square-plan two-stage tower to west, stepped castellated parapet, stone corner finials. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, replacement tiles and slates to south transept, raised gables, stone verge coping, cast-iron gutters. Painted roughcast-rendered walling, tie-beam plates to tower. Pointed arch window openings, dressed stone hood mouldings, shouldered stops, tooled stone chamfered reveals, splayed sills, timber tracery windows, leaded plain glazed panes; roundels to transept gables, painted timber frames, fixed quatrefoil panes; pointed-arch opening to east, tooled stone voussoirs, dressed stone block-and-start surround, dressed stone tracery, leaded stained glass panes, metal security grille; pointed-arch opening to tower belfry, stone sills, painted timber louvres. Pointed arch door openings, tooled stone moulded surrounds, painted timber horizontally sheeted doors, stone threshold, concrete steps to east elevation. Interior with limestone flagged floor, raised timber floor to side aisles, encaustic tiles to chancel dedicated to John Thomas Warren, incumbent 1851-1897. Painted smooth rendered walling, commemorative plaques, stained glass tracery window to chancel; timber scissor-braced trussed roof, smooth rendered ceiling, timber gallery to west dated 1849, timber pulpit to north, organ to south, cast-iron bell and assorted masonry elements displayed in porch. Set within graveyard to north, south and east, vertical and horizontal grave markers.

• Millgrove, worker's house, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1800. Projecting gable-fronted central bay, single-storey canted bay windows to south-west and north-east, single-storey with attic addition to north-west c. 1840, single-storey house attached to north-west. Pitched slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, roughcast-rendered chimneystacks, moulded metal gutters fixed to painted moulded timber fascia, painted timber scalloped bargeboard to south-west gable. Painted roughcast-rendered walling, smooth rendered plinth, even quoins. Square-headed window openings, smooth rendered reveals, painted and unpainted stone sills, painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows to south-east block, painted timber casement and uPVC windows elsewhere, single round-headed window opening to north-west elevation, painted timber multiple-paned sliding sash window. Square-headed door opening to north-west, unpainted smooth rendered slightly projecting reveals, painted timber glass and panelled door, stone threshold step. Stable block to north-east, renovated, random rubble boundary wall, soldier boulder coping; multiple-bay two-storey stone derelict mill building to east, pitched slate roof, random rubble walling, red brick dressings to window and door openings. Set back from road, garden to three sides, random rubble boundary wall and timber gates.

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 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_3063 (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 Ballymascanlan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Ballymascanlan · Baile Mhic Scanláin

Area

842,325 m² (84.23 ha, 208.14 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymascanlan, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Lower

Electoral division

Ballymascanlan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymascanlan electoral division: 2,272 people in 737 households; 91% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghaboys, Bellurgan, Culfore, Proleek

Placenames

Ballymascanlan 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.