Crowmartin
Townland in the civil parish of Clonkeen, barony of Ardee, Co. Louth; in Irish Craobh Mhártain
- Area
- 192.5 ha
- 476 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 16,638 m² (1.66 ha, 4.11 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crowmartin, from 251 m² to 360,220 m² (36.02 ha, 89.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 Sept 2025Conditional
Permission for the construction of a dwelling house with garage, proprietary waste water treatement system and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 25146
18 Dec 2024Refused
Permission for the construction of a dwelling house with detached domestic garage, proprietary waste water treatment system and all associated siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 24225
12 Jul 2022Conditional
Permission for the construction of a two storey dwelling house, a waste water treatment system, a soil polishing filter and for associated site works. *Significant Further Information received on 02/05/2023 which includes revised floor plans and elevations, revised site location map and revised site plan*
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22552
14 Jun 2022N/a
Permission for the construction of a two storey dwelling house, a waste water treatment system, a soil polishing filter and for associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22479
31 Aug 2020Conditional
Permission for development to consist of construction of a slatted cattle shed with underground slurry storage tank and concrete aprons and all associated site works. *Significant Further Information received on 28/06/2021*
Permission · Louth County Council, 20669
6 Jul 2020N/a
Permission to construct a slatted cattle shed with underground slurry storage tank and concrete aprons; and all associated site works
Permission · Louth County Council, 20482
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 Crowmartin.
Recorded monuments
- LH013-015001 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 Cropmarks of possible ringfort (LH013-015001-) and annexe or second enclosure (LH013-015002-) on aerial photograph (CUCAP, AOX 71).
- LH013-015002 Enclosure
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 Cropmarks of possible ringfort (LH013-015001-) and annexe or second enclosure (LH013-015002-) on aerial photograph (CUCAP, AOX 71).
- LH013-016 Castle - motte and bailey
Description
Situated on a ridge with low lying swampy land to the W, N and E, it consists of a flat-topped mound (diam. at summit 20.5m; at base c. 37m, H 5.7m) with remains of a fosse at NE and E (Wth 11m, D 1.5m) and traces of a rectangular bailey (77m by 50m, H 1.6m) at the SE. The bailey is defined by scarping and there are no obvious remains of a fosse between it and the motte. There are two large depressions in the top of the motte which are of modern origin. They are c. 1m deep and are almost circular (diam. c. 5m), one being at the NE and the other at the SE. The above 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: 17 July 2007
- LH013-018 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. c. 48m) enclosed by remains of bank (Wth 8m, H 1.1m internally, 1.6m externally) visible only from SE-S-W-WNW. No visible trace of fosse or entrance.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Crowmartin.
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 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Crowmartin.
- 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 Crowmartin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Crowmartin · Craobh Mhártain
- Area
- 1,925,119 m² (192.51 ha, 475.71 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
- Ballabony, Breslanstown (Co. Meath), Greatwood, Lagan, Mullaghgarve (Co. Monaghan), Tullakeel, Tully
- Placenames
- Crowmartin 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.