Christianstown

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Christianstown, from 33 m² to 963,219 m² (96.32 ha, 238.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Christianstown 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.

• 21 Nov 2025Conditional

  PROPOSED ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING INTERNAL LAYOUT AND AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO ACCOMMODATE A KITCHEN EXTENSION, HOME OFFICE AND THE RELOCATION OF A BEDROOM

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560741

• 9 Feb 2024Conditional

  Retention of a front sitting room, front porch and rear utility room extensions to existing dwelling house

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460071

• 1 Nov 2023Conditional

  Permission to demolish existing fire damage house and decommission existing septic tank , erect replacement house , new waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works *Signifcant further information received on the 29.2.24**

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360432

• 20 Apr 2023Conditional

  Retention permission for rear extension to dwelling house including alterations to existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23202

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 Christianstown.

Recorded monuments

• LH011-095001 Ringfort - rath
  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 Irregular platform (int. dims. 30m WSW-ENE, 18m NNW-SSE, H 0.6-2.6m) with slight traces of earthen bank at upper edge from NNW-NNE. Cropmarks (CUCAP, BDG 72) show that these surface remains formed N part of an enclosure with two widely spaced fosses. Tradition of a 'cave' (LH011-095002-) at site.

• LH011-095002 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 'Cave' shown on 1835 ed. of OS 6-inch map in the interior of ringfort (LH011-095001-). Now inaccessible.

• LH011-121 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.D.07) shows cropmark of a curved 'banana-shaped' fosse which could be part of an enclosure or mark the site of a free-standing souterrain. Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of upload: 10 June 2009

• LH014-075 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.H.09) shows cropmark of an incomplete curvilinear enclosure, bisected by a modern field boundary. Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of upload: 10 June 2009

Architectural heritage

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

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 Christianstown.

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

Name

Christianstown · Baile Christín

Area

2,032,011 m² (203.2 ha, 502.12 acres)

Civil parish

Darver, and its townlands

Barony

Louth

Electoral division

Darver, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Darver electoral division: 643 people in 225 households; 93% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corbollis, Darver, Gilbertstown, Kilcroney, Killincoole, Newtowndarver, Rathcassan, Woodtown

Placenames

Christianstown 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.