Cuillenstown
Townland in the civil parish of Darver, barony of Louth, Co. Louth; in Irish Baile Mhic Cuillin
- Area
- 152.2 ha
- 376 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 3,079 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cuillenstown, from 274 m² to 390,891 m² (39.09 ha, 96.59 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cuillenstown 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
30 Aug 2024N/a
Permission for a proposed spectator stand to existing football pitch No. 1, ball stops to rear of pitch No. 6 and all associated site development works
Permission · Louth County Council, 2460498
26 Aug 2024Conditional
Permission for one building to house new dressing rooms and storage area, hurling/kick wall unit to rear of above with provision of retaining walls and guard railings and all associated site development works
Permission · Louth County Council, 2460484
26 Aug 2024Conditional
Permission for the erection of 500m² of photovoltaic ground mounted solar panels, battery storage container and all associated site development works
Permission · Louth County Council, 2460485
22 Aug 2019Conditional
Permission for the construction of a single storey extension to the rear of a dwelling house, for the replacement of a septic tank system with waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter and for associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19669
26 Jul 2017Conditional
Permission for development to consist of extension to rear & side of existing dwelling house, replacement of existing septic tank system with new waste water treatment system and all associated site development works.
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17569
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 Cuillenstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cuillenstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cuillenstown.
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 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 Cuillenstown.
- 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 Cuillenstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Cuillenstown · Baile Mhic Cuillin
- Area
- 1,522,456 m² (152.25 ha, 376.21 acres)
- Civil parish
- Darver, and its townlands
- Barony
- Louth
- Electoral division
- Darver, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Darver electoral division: 643 people in 225 households; 93% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Darver, Killincoole, Milltown Grange, Walterstown
- Placenames
- Cuillenstown 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.