Blakestown

89 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blakestown, from 8 m² to 456,422 m² (45.64 ha, 112.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R4New Residential Phase 2 (Strategic Residential Reserve)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 27 Apr 2024N/a

  Retention of 2 no. 1 bedroom apartments, septic tank, percolation area and associated siteworks

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2460231

• 28 Sept 2022Conditional

  Permission to raise the main roof to existing house, new dormer window to rear roof, internal alterations and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22769

• 10 Feb 2020Conditional

  Permission for development consisting of the construction of free standing ball stop netting systems, to be installed behind each existing goal post at main pitch and also training pitch, four number to be installed in total, each measuring 30m wide and 15m high and all associated concrete base pad foundations and stay wires.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2079

• 12 Jul 2019Conditional

  Permission for the demolition of 2 existing dwellings and to construct 14 No. 2-bed single storey retirement homes, new entrance, connection to existing services, car parking, boundary treatment and all ancillary site works. **Significant Further information received 04/02/2020**

  Permission, 14 homes · Louth County Council, 19553

• 31 Oct 2018Conditional

  Permission for works to an existing above ground natural gas installation. The development will consist of the replacement of approximately 81m of existing 2.4m high chainlink perimeter fencing and associated access/emergency gates with new 2.4m high green palisade security fencing/gates, and all associated site works.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 18886

• 22 Aug 2018Conditional

  The development will consist of single storey rear extension with alterations to existing dwelling to include revised bay windows to front elevation, new roof over entire existing dwelling/proposed extension, removal of existing garage and construction of new detached domestic garage to revised location and all associated works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18670

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 Blakestown.

Recorded monuments

• LH017-024 Ringfort - rath
  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 Ringfort badly mutilated by quarrying and modern field fences. Bank (Wth c. 5m, H 0.2m internally, 1.3m externally) visible only in an arc from NW-N.

• LH017-026 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  A dried up well called Cloch Breac (Speckled Stone) associated with St. Patrick. It appears that Smith, who became landlord of Blakestown in 1849, closed the well and built up the roadside fence at this point to stop people trespassing, after the road was improved as part of a famine relief work. He had a new well constructed beside the road. In 1952 the well was no more than a depression in the ground among large stones and boulders. (MacIvor 1952, 265). When inspected by ASI in 1966 there was no trace of it. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 20 June 2012

• LH017-047 Standing stone
  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 Formerly situated in field known as 'Cloch Liath'. Standing stone (max. dims. H 2.1m, 1m by 0.6m in section) (CLAJ 1952, 264). No visible surface trace.

• LH017-093 Souterrain
  Description

  A souterrain reported to have been discovered during house building c. 1988. It was filled in and built over before an inspection was carried out. (SMR file) Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 22 June 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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_2860 (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.

• Blakestown, Ardee9 sales

Name

Blakestown · Baile an Bhlácaigh

Area

1,545,054 m² (154.51 ha, 381.79 acres)

Civil parish

Shanlis, and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Ardee Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardee Rural electoral division: 3,009 people in 1,003 households; 94% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blackstick, Hunterstown, Kilpatrick, Millockstown, Mullameelan, Oberstown, Stonylane

Placenames

Blakestown 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.