# Culfore, Co. Louth: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballymascanlan, barony of Dundalk Lower, Co. Louth; in Irish Cúil Fobhair. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 498,303 m² (49.83 ha, 123.13 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,162 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 13 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballymascanlan, https://everytownland.com/louth/parish/ballymascanlan.md - Barony: Dundalk Lower - Electoral division: Ballymascanlan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Louth, https://everytownland.com/louth.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33655 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 140206 - Centre: latitude 54.039549, longitude -6.36432 (WGS 84) ## 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); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1132273: 159,141 m² (15.91 ha, 39.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1132273.md - Parcel 1135402: 111,814 m² (11.18 ha, 27.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1135402.md - Parcel 4939036: 84,582 m² (8.46 ha, 20.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4939036.md - Parcel 1131772: 26,029 m² (2.6 ha, 6.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1131772.md - Parcel 1105470: 13,134 m² (1.31 ha, 3.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1105470.md - Parcel 1107646: 4,926 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1107646.md - Parcel 5535769: 3,181 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5535769.md - Parcel 1091223: 2,677 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1091223.md - Parcel 1135122: 2,351 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1135122.md - Parcel 1103246: 2,206 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1103246.md - Parcel 1131273: 2,165 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1131273.md - Parcel 1121394: 2,162 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1121394.md - Parcel 1129781: 2,151 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1129781.md - Parcel 1100737: 2,098 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1100737.md - Parcel 1127506: 2,044 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1127506.md - Parcel 1130408: 1,985 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1130408.md - Parcel 1136290: 1,899 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1136290.md - Parcel 1104208: 1,883 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1104208.md - Parcel 1102010: 1,872 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1102010.md - Parcel 1129207: 1,777 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1129207.md - Parcel 1123472: 1,750 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1123472.md - Parcel 1093510: 1,171 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1093510.md - Parcel 1126855: 1,010 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1126855.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 13 applications, newest first. - 7 Aug 2026, Louth County Council 2660546: N/a. Permission. Permission for a dwelling house, domestic garage, vehicular entrance, waste water treatment system and associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660546/0 - 3 Dec 2025, Louth County Council 2560778: Refused. Permission, 1 home. Permission to install a treatment system for domestic waste sewerage for existing dwelling house including all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560778/0 - 28 May 2025, Louth County Council 2571: Conditional. Retention. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2571/0 - 7 May 2025, Louth County Council 2559: N/a. Retention, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2559/0 - 16 Jun 2022, Louth County Council 22490: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission for alterations and extension to existing dwelling house, a new waste water treatment system and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/22490/0 - 15 Nov 2021, Louth County Council 211370: Refused. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/211370/0 - 15 Nov 2021, Louth County Council 211376: Refused. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/211376/0 - 20 Sept 2021, Louth County Council 211172: Refused. Outline permission, 1 home. Outline permission sought for one dwelling house, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/211172/0 - 9 Apr 2021, Louth County Council 21386: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/21386/0 - 19 Aug 2020, Louth County Council 20628: N/a. Permission, 1 home. Permission for development to consist of the alterations and extension to existing dwelling house, and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/20628/0 - 16 Jul 2020, Louth County Council 20518: N/a. Permission, 1 home. Permission for the alterations and extension to existing dwelling house and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/20518/0 - 21 May 2020, Louth County Council 20352: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. Permission for a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/20352/0 - 19 Nov 2018, Louth County Council 18938: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. Permission for development to consist of a dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and associated site development works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/18938/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Culfore. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Culfore. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Culfore. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3063.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/louth/culfore.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/louth/culfore.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/louth/culfore.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/louth.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghaboys: https://everytownland.com/louth/aghaboys.md - Ballymascanlan: https://everytownland.com/louth/ballymascanlan.md - Plaster: https://everytownland.com/louth/plaster-140522.md - Proleek: https://everytownland.com/louth/proleek.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/louth/culfore - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/louth/culfore