Carrickallan

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrickallan, from 414 m² to 101,352 m² (10.14 ha, 25.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Carrickallan 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.

• 7 Nov 2024Conditional

  Retention of a 92sq.m storage building and 2 no. 2.4mx 6.1m shipping containers used for the storage of builders equipment. Permission for a new vehicular entrance to service the storage building inclusive of all associated site development works *Significant Further Information Received on 01/08/2025*

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2460687

• 18 Jan 2022Refused

  permission for the construction of a two storey dwelling house, single storey domestic garage with entrance onto public road, installation of on-site septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2229

• 12 Nov 2021N/a

  permission for the construction of a two storey dwelling house, single storey domestic garage with entrance onto public road, installation of on-site septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 211366

• 18 Jul 2017Conditional

  Permission for a development to consist of a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, installation of a wastewater treatment system/ percolation area and all associated site development works. *Significant Further Information submitted 19/10/2017*

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 17550

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 Carrickallan.

Recorded monuments

• LH006-062 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 Site discovered in 1903 (CLAJ 1904, 39, fig. 5). Consists of a passage extending NW-SE with drop-hole giving access to a second passage with expanded terminal/chamber, at lower level, extending roughly N-S. Drystone-built throughout. (Total L c. 14.7m.) Site now inaccessible. (CLAJ 1961, 10)

• LH006-063 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 Site of souterrain recorded. (CLAJ 1904, 39)

• LH006-120 Rock art
  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 Cup and multiple ring motif on rock outcrop (Clarke 1981, 111-14).

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately low, 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_2926 (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 Carrickallan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Carrickallan · Carraig Challáin

Area

733,493 m² (73.35 ha, 181.25 acres)

Civil parish

Louth, and its townlands

Barony

Louth

Electoral division

Castlering, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlering electoral division: 1,092 people in 352 households; 91% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Allardstown, Cortial, Kilcurly, Killycroney, Knockcor, Mullabohy

Placenames

Carrickallan 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.