Castlelumny
Townland in the civil parish of Mullary, barony of Ferrard, Co. Louth; in Irish An Caisleán Lomnocht
- Area
- 139.1 ha
- 344 acres
- Land parcels
- 71
- registered freehold, median 2,550 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlelumny, from 42 m² to 317,411 m² (31.74 ha, 78.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Castlelumny 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
14 Jul 2025Refused
The construction of a single storey dwellinghouse, a single storey domestic garage, a waste water treatment system and sand polishing filter, and for associated siteworks.
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2560445
6 Dec 2023Conditional
Permission for extension and alterations to an existing dwelling house and associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23475
21 Aug 2023Conditional
Permission for side extension to existing dwelling and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23370
19 Aug 2021Refused
Outline permission for development that will consist of the construction of a one and a half storey dwelling, new vehicular site entrance, waste water treatment system and percolation area, erect new site boundaries and all other associated site works and services
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211035
19 Jul 2021N/a
Outline permission sought to construct a one and a half storey dwelling, new vehicular site entrance, waste water treatment system and percolation area, erect new site boundaries and all other associated site works and services
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21908
10 Jun 2021Conditional
Permission sought for dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works *Significant Further Information received 31/8/21*
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21725
21 Apr 2021Conditional
Permission for development that will consist of a new storey and a half dwelling, associated detached double garage, opening of a new vehicular entrance to site, new private water well and wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all associated site development works. *Significant Further Information received on 08/10/2021 which consists of amendments to the site boundary and entrance to site*
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 21441
22 Mar 2021N/a
Permission sought for revised boundaries to dwelling house in relation to permission granted ref. no. 98/470
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21305
7 Jul 2020Refused
Permission for development that will consist of construction of a dormer dwellinghouse a detached domestic garage. Installation of a waste-water treatment system/percolation area and all associated site works, and a vehicular road entrance
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20484
16 Jul 2018N/a
Retention Planning Permission to retain and complete boundary wall to front of dwelling.
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18549
9 Apr 2018Conditional
Permission for a Ground & First Floor extension to the rear of exisitng dwelling and the replacement of existing flat roof with pitched roof.
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18261
2 Oct 2017Conditional
Permission for development consists of a single storey dwelling, waste water treatment system and associated site works. Retention permission is also sought for alterations to existing farm entrance and access lane upgrade works, **SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION RECEIVED 26/03/2018**
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17733
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Castlelumny.
Recorded monuments
- LH021-002 Castle - unclassified
Description
A castle at Castlelumney (35) in Mullary parish is shown close to the boundary with Priestowne and Tynure on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony map, for which see this web-page accessed on 9 May 2016 http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Ferrard&c=Louth A castle in ruins at Castle Lumeny is shown on Taylor and Skinner's map of 1777 and 1778 on the W side of the road to Ardee (P. 3). The 'Castle Field' is known locally and an area of paving is said to have been unearthed during ploughing in it during the nineteenth century, but the precise location of the castle is not known. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 9 May 2016
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Castlelumny.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Castlelumny.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Castlelumny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Castlelumny · An Caisleán Lomnocht
- Area
- 1,391,481 m² (139.15 ha, 343.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mullary, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ferrard
- Electoral division
- Mullary, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Mullary electoral division: 1,870 people in 560 households; 95% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cookspark, Corlisbane, Duryhole, Gunstown, Hammondstown, Mosstown South, Priest Town, Puckstown, Rathdaniel, Rathescar South, Rathgory, Tinure
- Placenames
- Castlelumny 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.