Churchtown

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Churchtown, from 2,465 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres) to 33,675 m² (3.37 ha, 8.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Churchtown 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.

• 28 Apr 2026N/a

  Retention and Permission for the following: 1. The retention of an agricultural store. 2. Full planning permission for an agricultural entrance along with any ancillary site works

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2660245

• 7 Feb 2025N/a

  The development will consist of the retention of an agricultural store along with any ancillary site works.

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2560059

• 4 Mar 2021Conditional

  Permission for development that will consist of the construction of a two storey dwelling house, a single storey domestic garage, a waste water treatment system, a soil polishing filter and for associated site works on a site previously granted permission under planning reference number 12416

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 21217

• 4 Feb 2021N/a

  Permission for development that will consist of the construction of a two storey dwellinghouse, a single storey domestic garage, waste water treatment system, a soil polishing filter and for associated site works on a sit previously granted permission under planning ref no 12/146

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 21108

• 16 Dec 2020Conditional

  Retention & Permission: Retention of a partially constructed domestic entrance and permission to construct and complete entrance piers and walls along with any ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 201121

• 10 Nov 2020N/a

  Permission and Retention: Retention of a partially constructed domestic entrance and permission to construct and complete entrance piers and walls along with any ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20940

• 26 Feb 2018N/a

  PERMISSION for development will consist of the construction of a 1 1/2 storey dwelling house, domestic garage, a waste water treatment system and soil filtration area and for associated siteworks on a site previously granted permission under planning reference number 12/416.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 18144

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 Churchtown.

Recorded monuments

• LH013-028001 Church
  Description

  Site of early foundation for which bishops are recorded in the ninth century. Medieval church was in disrepair in 1692 and was subsequently removed. Present church nineteenth-century in date. No trace of earlier foundation. In the course of repair works in 1973 a single-light window with splayed jambs was exposed in the south wall perhaps indicating the presence of earlier fabric (SMR file). (Davies 1943, 204; Mac Iomhair 1964, 332; Buckley 1986a, 901) Updated by: Paul Walsh Revised date of upload: 25 August 2015

• LH013-028002 Graveyard
  Description

  Possible graveyard associated with medieval church site (LH013-028001-). No trace visible. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 25 May 2012

Architectural heritage

• Churchtown House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement former rectory, built c. 1820, now in use as private house. Rectangular-plan, rubble stone walls to south-east and south-west, single-pitched extensions at angles, attached outbuildings forming courtyard to south recently adapted to residential use. Hipped slate roof, roll topped clay hip and ridge tiles, sprocketed eaves, painted smooth rendered ruled-and-lined corbelled chimneystacks, roll-moulded bands, ornate clay pots, smooth rendered corbel course, cast-iron gutters. Painted roughcast rendered walling, unpainted tooled stone projecting plinth course, rubble stone walling to basement. Square-headed window openings, painted smooth rendered reveals and soffits, unpainted tooled stone sills, painted timber three-over-three sliding sash windows to first floor west elevation, six-over-six to ground floor and basement, red brick block-and-start surrounds to basement, painted iron window guards. Round-headed door opening, unpainted dressed stone roll-moulded surround, leaded petal fanlight, engaged dressed stone Doric columns, triglyph frieze, painted timber panelled door, four tooled stone steps in front, wrought-iron handrail spiralled terminations; square-headed opening to basement, east elevation, red brick voussoirs, painted timber and glass double doors; square-headed opening to basement south elevation, painted tooled stone lugged and shouldered door surround, leading stone step, painted panelled and vertically-sheeted timber door, coursed rubble stone walling flanking steps to basement, ashlar stone coping. Multiple-bay two-storey and attic stone outbuildings attached to south, dated 1821; L-plan; hipped slate roofs, clay ridge and hip tiles, red brick chimneystacks, copper clad round-headed dormer windows; random rubble stone walling; loop-window openings to first floor, red brick surrounds, square-headed openings to ground floor, red brick block-and-start surrounds; square-headed door openings, tooled ashlar stone lugged and shouldered surrounds, round-headed lucarne door opening to first floor east elevation, east range c. 2004, copper clad, painted timber and glass double doors, concrete steps; segmental-headed carriage arches, tooled ashlar stone block-and-start surrounds, red brick voussoirs, tooled keystone dated '1821' to west elevation, east range. Set within own grounds, garden to north, east and west, walled garden with tennis court to south-west with random rubble stone boundary wall, circular gate pier, wrought-iron gate; painted rubble stone curving wing walls to entrance, painted stone segmental coping, unpainted tooled stone octagonal gate piers, painted wrought-iron gates, painted wrought-iron fencing to avenue.

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 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 Churchtown.

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

Name

Churchtown · Baile an Teampaill

Area

88,651 m² (8.87 ha, 21.91 acres)

Civil parish

Clonkeen, and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Clonkeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonkeen electoral division: 711 people in 234 households; 92% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cardistown, Stormanstown, Tullakeel

Placenames

Churchtown 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.