Carrickastuck

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrickastuck, from 406 m² to 265,999 m² (26.6 ha, 65.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Carrickastuck 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.

• 27 Aug 2021Conditional

  Permission to convert existing two storey farm building into two self-contained residential units for short letting and waste water treatment system to include all associated site works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 211070

• 14 Jul 2021N/a

  Permission for development that will consist of the conversion of existing two storey farm building into two self-contained residential units for short letting to include all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 21877

• 23 Mar 2021Conditional

  Permission to construct cubicles shed with slatted tank and walled silage pits and all associated site works. Demolition of slatted shed is also required.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 21307

• 29 Jan 2021N/a

  Permission to construct cubicles shed with slatted tank and walled silage pits and all associated site works. Demolition of slatted shed is also required

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2187

• 10 Apr 2019Refused

  EXTENSION OF DURATION *14148* - Permission for extension to side of existing dwellinghouse and all associated site works.

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19270

• 15 May 2017Conditional

  Retention permission for existing 24m telecommunications structure, carrying associated antennas and dishes, associated equipment including associated equipment cabin, cabinet, located in secure compound, security fencing and access route.

  Retention · Louth County Council, 17362

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 Carrickastuck.

Recorded monuments

• LH003-026 Barrow - ring-barrow
  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 on top of a slight natural rise in rolling grassland. Ring-barrow (max. dims. 24.8m by 20.8m), comprising a flat, slightly oval-shaped interior (diam. 14m NE-SW) enclosed by a fosse (Wth 2.2m) on S to W and N to NE. External bank (Wth 3.2m) visible only from S-W-NE. A modern field fence truncates the fosse and bank from S-E-NE. The site is referred to as a 'small mount' by Stubbs (CLAJ 1909, 129).

• LH006-103 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 Isolated souterrain, located in front garden of modern farmhouse on top of small drumlin. Discovered in 1984 during building. Present entrance is at S end of souterrain. It consists of a simple drystone-built passage (L 13.6m, Wth 1.2m, H 1.3m) curving N-S to form an S-shaped plan. The original entrance was at the N but was blocked in antiquity.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Carrickastuck, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Carrickastuck with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Carrickastuck · Carraig an Stoca

Area

927,879 m² (92.79 ha, 229.28 acres)

Civil parish

Philipstown (Dundalk Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Barronstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

752 people lived in 255 households in the Barronstown electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaghvacky, Barronstown, Cavananore, Clonaleenaghan, Philipstown, Shortstone West

Placenames

Carrickastuck 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.