Culfore
Culfore is a townland in the civil parish of Ballymascanlan, barony of Dundalk Lower, Co. Louth. Its name in Irish is Cúil Fobhair.
- Area
- 49.8 ha
- 123 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 2,162 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Culfore, from 1,010 m² to 159,141 m² (15.91 ha, 39.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Culfore 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
7 Aug 2026N/a
Permission for a dwelling house, domestic garage, vehicular entrance, waste water treatment system and associated site development works
Permission · Louth County Council, 2660546
3 Dec 2025Refused
Permission to install a treatment system for domestic waste sewerage for existing dwelling house including all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560778
28 May 2025Conditional
Retention permission for development to comprise additional external hard surface area,re-location and widening of the vehicular entrance off the public roadway, perimeter security fencing, industrial lighting and all associated services & works.
Retention · Louth County Council, 2571
7 May 2025N/a
Retention permission for development to comprise additional external hard surface area, re-location and widening of the vehicular entrance off the public roadway, perimeter secuirty fencing, industrial lighting and all associated services and site works to existing light industrial unit.
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2559
16 Jun 2022Conditional
Permission for alterations and extension to existing dwelling house, a new waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22490
15 Nov 2021Refused
permission for the construction of a single storey dwelling, elongation of an existing vehicular entrance road to the proposed development site, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211370
15 Nov 2021Refused
permission for construction of a single storey dwelling, elongation of an existing vehicular entrance road to the proposed development site, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211376
20 Sept 2021Refused
Outline permission sought for one dwelling house, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211172
9 Apr 2021Conditional
Permission for a change of house type for the construction of a two storey dwelling house, garage and associated site works from that previously granted permission under planning reference number 20/352
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 21386
19 Aug 2020N/a
Permission for development to consist of the alterations and extension to existing dwelling house, and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20628
16 Jul 2020N/a
Permission for the alterations and extension to existing dwelling house and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20518
21 May 2020Conditional
Permission for a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and associated site development works
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20352
19 Nov 2018Conditional
Permission for development to consist of a dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and associated site development works.
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 18938
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 Culfore.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Culfore.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Culfore.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Culfore, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3063 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Culfore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Culfore · Cúil Fobhair
- Area
- 498,303 m² (49.83 ha, 123.13 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballymascanlan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dundalk Lower
- Electoral division
- Ballymascanlan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,272 people lived in 737 households in the Ballymascanlan electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghaboys, Ballymascanlan, Plaster, Proleek
- Placenames
- Culfore 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.