Cruisetown

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cruisetown, from 531 m² to 657,236 m² (65.72 ha, 162.41 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 Cruisetown 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 Jun 2026N/a

  Permission for: 1. Construction of a new single storey extension to rear of existing cottage. 2. Construction of new garage store. 3. Existing septic tank to be decommissioned and replaced with new proprietary wastewater treatment system & percolation area. 4. All associated site works. 5. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of this planning application

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2660414

• 25 Nov 2025N/a

  Permission for the change of use two existing vernacular agricultural buildings to residential holiday let accommodations, including extension to one of the buildings, new waste water treatment system and polishing filter percolation area, new vehicular entrance onto public road and all associated site development works *Significant Further Information received on 26/08/2026*

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2560754

• 16 Sept 2024Refused

  Permission for the change of use of two existing vernacular agricultural buildings to residential holiday let accommodation, including extension to one of the buildings, new waste water treatment system and polishing filter percolation area, new vehicular entrance onto public road and all associated site development works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2460545

• 3 May 2024Conditional

  Permission for a detached domestic garage to rear of existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2477

• 28 Feb 2024Conditional

  Permission for a detached domestic garage to rear of existing dwelling with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460109

• 2 Nov 2023Refused

  Planning permission for the change of use of an existing agricultural building to a residential holiday let accommodation, including extension of same, incorporating a new first floor, new waste water treatment system and polishing filter percolation area, new vehicular entrance onto public road and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360435

• 22 Apr 2020Conditional

  Permission for a proposed dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter, percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20297

• 19 Dec 2018Conditional

  Permission for a change of use and conversion of existing stone outbuilding from agricultural building to a two bedroom holiday let apartment, works will include demolition and rebuilding of a section of the rear and gable walls, new corrugated metal deck roof, extension of same outbuilding, and other associated refurbishment works to same building and connection to existing onsite treatment system and sand polishing filter. *Significant Further Information Received on 10/06/2019*

  Permission · Louth County Council, 181046

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: North-West Irish Sea cSPA 004236

Recorded monuments

• LH019-033 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a slight E-facing slope with the confluence of a N-S canalised stream with a W-E one c. 30m to the SE. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) is visible on Google Earth (12/07/2013). It is also visible on OSI images (1995, 2000), and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 June 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cruisetown.

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

Name

Cruisetown · Baile an Chrúisigh

Area

1,083,376 m² (108.34 ha, 267.71 acres)

Civil parish

Parsonstown, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

Electoral division

Clogher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clogher electoral division: 3,446 people in 1,141 households; 80% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Labanstown, Parsonstown, Reynoldstown

Placenames

Cruisetown 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.