Cortial

80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cortial, from 9 m² to 293,502 m² (29.35 ha, 72.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Cortial 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.

• 25 May 2026N/a

  Permission for one dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2660324

• 18 May 2026N/a

  Permission for a New Cow Collecting\Handling Yard with underground effluent storage tank, an Extension to Existing Straw Storage Shed, a new underground effluent storage tank and all associated site development works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2660298

• 20 Jun 2025N/a

  Retention permission for 2no. steel container units used for the production of organic products as a home based economic activity and associated site development works.

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2588

• 13 Dec 2024Conditional

  Retention permission for a front porch extension to an existing dwelling house and associated site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 24218

• 22 Apr 2022Refused

  permission for a two storey detached dwelling house, detached garage, installation of a waste water treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 22326

• 8 Dec 2020Conditional

  Permission for a new calving shed and retention of an underground effluent storage tank and relocation of existing silage pit and all associated site development works *Significant Further Information Received 01/11/2021*

  Retention · Louth County Council, 201064

• 16 Nov 2020N/a

  Retention & Permission: Permission for a new calving shed and retention of an underground effluent storage tank & relocation of existing silage pit and all associated site development works

  Retention · Louth County Council, 20967

• 10 Aug 2020N/a

  Permission for an attached domestic car port with a front facing bricked wall containing a garage door and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20597

• 4 Jul 2019Conditional

  Retention & Permission: Retention and completion for alterations to previously granted permission reference number 14591 (Permission for alterations to a previously granted planning application - planning ref. no. 12/369 - construction of a new two storey dwelling, domestic garage, effluent treatment system & percolation area, new vehicular entrance with all associated site development works. The alterations to include: a. Alterations to granted floor plans, sections and elevations. b. Addition of a basement area with associated changes to the site development works). Alterations include: a. Omission of proposed basement area. b. Addition of sunroom. c. Various elevational changes to the main dwelling; and all associated site development works.

  Retention, 3 homes · Louth County Council, 19528

• 18 Sept 2018Conditional

  This development will consist of a single storey dwelling, garage & waste water treatment system with all associated site works. * Significant Further Information Received on 01/02/2019 *

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 18754

• 3 May 2018N/a

  Development will consist of a single storey dwelling, garage & waste water treatment system with all associated site works.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 18332

• 17 Jan 2018Conditional

  Permission for RETENTION of development consisting of a double garage & 2no. domestic sheds.

  Retention, 3 homes · Louth County Council, 1826

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Drumcah, Toprass And Cortial Loughs 001462

Recorded monuments

• LH006-043 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 Circular area (int. diam. 23m) enclosed by badly degraded earthen bank (Wth 6m, H 0.15m internally, 1.5m externally) which bounds the top of an E-W outcrop ridge. Possible entrance gap (Wth 1.7m) at S.

• LH006-044 Crannog
  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 Situated at present on the NE boundary of a small pot-lough. The crannog was originally at the edge of a shallow area which formed the NE part of a lough, figure-of-eight in shape. The NE section of this lough is now bog, which encloses the NE-NW sides of the crannog. The crannog itself (max. dims. 23m N-S, 19.5m E-W) stands 0.5m above the present water-level. There are traces of a stone kerb or cairn on the SE but no visible piling. In the SW quadrant of the site is a possible house platform (2m square, H 0.3m).

• LH006-045001 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 Roughly circular area (int. diam. 33m) enclosed by earth and stone bank (Wth 5m, H 0.8m), with a modern external drystone masonry facing from NE-E-S-SW. No visible trace of fosse. Entrance gap (Wth c. 4m) at SE. Souterrain (LH006-045002-) reported from this site (CLAJ 1961, 10).

• LH006-045002 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 Situated in a ringfort (LH006-045001-) close to shore of Cortial Lough. Now inaccessible. (CLAJ 1961, 5-10)

• LH006-046 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 Section of souterrain, described by Martin (CLAJ 1929, 76-7) as c. 3 feet (1m) wide, c. 5 feet (1.60m) high and built of small stones. Now inaccessible. (CLAJ 1961, 5-10)

• LH006-052001 Children's burial ground
  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 A trapezoidal platform (max. dims. 26m E-W, 23m N-S, H c. 1m) with a very slight, and in places much-degraded, bank around its perimeter. The platform is quite steep-sided in places and its surface is strewn with large stones. There is no obvious evidence of any structure within the enclosed area. Souterrain LH006-052002- is situated just to the E of the site. (CLAJ 1942, 106; CLAJ 1961, 5)

• LH006-052002 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 Situated on W side of a killeen (LH006-052001-). Drystone-built souterrain consisting of a passage (L 2m, Wth 0.8m) extending S, then turning W into a second passage (L 5m, Wth 0.6m, H 1.2m) which terminates in the NE side of a gallery (L 8.3m, Wth 1.2m, H 1.4m) extending N-S. (CLAJ 1961, 5-10)

• LH006-054 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 Discovered in 1920s in a field known as 'Parc Ard'. Now inaccessible. (CLAJ 1961, 5-10)

• LH006-056001 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 Souterrain consisting of a passage (L 5.8m, Wth 1m, H 1.2m) running E to a circular chamber (diam. 1.7m, H 1.5m). (CLAJ 1961, 5-10)

• LH006-056002 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 Situated 75m NE of souterrain LH006-056001-. Consists of a drystone-built passage (L 4m, Wth 0.8m, H 1m) extending SW to a circular chamber (diam. 4m, H 1.2m). (CLAJ 1961, 5-10)

• LH006-109 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 Possible entrance to a souterrain in field known as 'Cnoc na bPoll'. (CLAJ 1961, 5-10)

• LH006-121 Rock art
  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 Slightly sloping rock outcrop with three sets of cup and ring motifs. One motif has three concentric rings around the cup, another has two. The triple-ringed cup mark also has a groove running from the central cup to a point beyond the rings. (CLAJ 1981, 107)

Architectural heritage

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

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2926 (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.

• Cortial, Kilkerley5 sales

Name

Cortial · Coirteail

Area

1,763,391 m² (176.34 ha, 435.74 acres)

Civil parish

Louth, and its townlands

Barony

Louth

Electoral division

Castlering, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlering electoral division: 1,092 people in 352 households; 91% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh (McCanns), Ballinurd, Carrickallan, Carrickrobin, Crossabeagh, Kilcurly, Killycroney, Plaster

Placenames

Cortial 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.