Calga

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Calga, from 95 m² to 192,223 m² (19.22 ha, 47.5 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 Calga 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.

• 28 Oct 2025Refused

  Outline permission for a dwelling house and domestic garage, upgrades to existing lane-way and entrance, wastewater treatment system, boundary fencing and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2560685

• 27 Nov 2024Conditional

  Retention permission for a rear extension to existing dwelling and detached domestic garage

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460736

• 23 Jul 2024Conditional

  Retention permission for an agricultural storage shed, rainwater soakage area and associated siteworks *Significant Further Information received on 20/12/2024*

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2460422

• 23 Feb 2024Conditional

  Permission consequent on the grant of outline permission 21799 for dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, access to site via existing laneway and all associated site works

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460098

• 8 Dec 2022N/a

  Retention permission for an agricultural storage shed and all associated site works

  Retention · Louth County Council, 22951

• 6 Oct 2022Refused

  Outline permission sought for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site development works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22795

• 19 Aug 2022N/a

  Outline permission for dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation areas and all associated site development works.

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22660

• 28 Jun 2021Conditional

  Outline permission sought for dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, access to site via existing laneway and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21799

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 Calga.

Recorded monuments

• LH013-002 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 Local tradition of a 'cave' at this site.

Architectural heritage

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

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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Calga · An Cholgaigh

Area

1,042,838 m² (104.28 ha, 257.69 acres)

Civil parish

Philipstown (Ardee Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Clonkeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonkeen electoral division: 711 people in 234 households; 92% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aclint, Annagh, Annahean (Co. Monaghan), Creveadornan (Co. Monaghan), Edmondstown, Knockaboys

Placenames

Calga 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.