Castlecarragh

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlecarragh, from 247 m² to 380,298 m² (38.03 ha, 93.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Castlecarragh 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.

• 5 Dec 2025Conditional

  Permission for a storey and half style domestic garage to include for storage accommodation at ground floor and gymnasium/home office at first floor and associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560785

• 22 May 2025Conditional

  Permission for an extension and alterations to an existing dwelling house, new waste water treatment and associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2569

• 25 Mar 2024Conditional

  Permission to demolish existing rear extension to dwelling, construct new rear extension to same, new waste water treatment system and percolation, decommission existing septic tank . Retention Permission for detached domestic home office/gym/games room and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460157

• 15 Mar 2024N/a

  Permission to demolish existing rear extension to dwelling, construct new rear extension to same, new waste water treatment system and percolation, decommission existing septic tank. Retention Permission for detached domestic home office/gym/games room and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460144

• 2 Jul 2021Refused

  Permission for a dwelling house of 190sqm, with stand alone garage building of 36sqm, with waste water treatment system, percolation area, surface water soak pits and all attendant site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 21821

• 24 May 2021Conditional

  Permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and associated site development works. *Significant Further Information received on 07/01/2022*

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21643

• 8 Apr 2020Conditional

  Permission for development to consist of one dwelling house, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20261

• 11 Jun 2018Conditional

  Retention of a domestic garage, Permission for extension to existing domestic garage, Permission for a builders lock-up store and associated site development works.

  Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 18442

• 12 Mar 2018Conditional

  PERMISSION for development will consist of permission for extension and alterations to existing dwelling house and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18186

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

Recorded monuments

• LH008-079 Castle - motte
  Description

  Situated on high ground at the edge of an old river valley overlooking the Castletown River to the SW and consisting of an earth and stone mound (max. diam. at base c. 30m, summit partly destroyed, H c. 5m) with traces of a wide filled-in fosse (Wth 8.1m, D c. 1m) at the E. Part of the W side of the mound appears to have collapsed into the old river valley which may have been the original course of the Castletown River. Site quarried out and destroyed c. 1979. (Morris 1906, 40) The above 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: 17 July 2007

• LH008-080 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. c. 42m N-S, c. 40m E-W) defined by cropmark ring on aerial photograph (CUCAP, ALK 34).

• LH008-086001 Burial ground
  Description

  Local tradition of a graveyard sited in gravelly field close to the sea known as 'Shankill'. Bones are said to have been found here when ploughing. Souterrain (LH008-086002-) said to be in same field. The precise location of this monument is not known. The above 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: 17 July 2007

• LH008-086002 Souterrain
  Description

  Local tradition of a 'cave' in field known as 'Shankill'. Possible cemetery (LH008-086001-) also noted in this field. The precise location of this feature is not known. The above 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: 17 July 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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

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

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

Name

Castlecarragh · An Caisleán Carrach

Area

1,511,527 m² (151.15 ha, 373.51 acres)

Civil parish

Carlingford, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Lower

Electoral division

Rathcor, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathcor electoral division: 1,484 people in 467 households; 87% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaverty, Castletowncooley, Earls Quarter, Mountbagnall, Rathcor

Placenames

Castlecarragh 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.