Corstown

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corstown, from 2,607 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres) to 774,026 m² (77.4 ha, 191.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Corstown 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.

• 26 Jun 2025Conditional

  The development will consist of converting & extending existing garage to a semi-independent 2 bedroomed living accommodation for people with special needs, works also to include connection to existing effluent treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560397

• 27 Sept 2022Conditional

  Permission for a single storey dwelling house, detached garage, waste water treatment system, well, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 22764

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 Corstown.

Recorded monuments

• LH018-009 Enclosure
  Description

  In low-lying position. A sub-rectangular (c. 70m NE-SW; c. 40m NW-SE), scarped earthwork with traces of fosse on NE and SW sides. (SMR file) Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 3 July 2012

• LH018-010 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked on the 1911 'OS 6-inch' map as 'St. Finian's Well'. The OS Letters refer to a well dedicated to St. Fiónan and a station being held here at one time (CLAJ 1921, 32). The well hole (diam. 0.55m) was almost closed in when inspected by ASI in 1966. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 4 July 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3073 (ZIP).

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

Name

Corstown

Area

1,145,847 m² (114.58 ha, 283.14 acres)

Civil parish

Drumcar, and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Drumcar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumcar electoral division: 1,415 people in 487 households; 85% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corstown, Drumcar, Finvoy, Gallagh, Newhall, Tullydonnell, Willistown

Placenames

Corstown 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.