Dales

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dales, from 68 m² to 164,082 m² (16.41 ha, 40.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Dales 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.

• 16 Jan 2026Conditional

  Permission to upgrade a domestic waste water treatment system. An existing percolation area will be decommissioned and waste will instead be processed by a treatment system comprising an underground coconut filter and gravel pad (175 m2) which will be at existing ground level, located in the south east corner of the site. The material from the decommissioned percolation area will be retained for landscaping

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660009

• 16 Dec 2025Conditional

  Permission for proposed alterations and two storey extension to existing dwelling house and proposed new front site boundary with all associated site works *Significant Further Information Received on 21/04/2026*

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 25181

• 1 Mar 2024Conditional

  Retention permission for changes to existing constructed extension to rear and side of original dwelling from that granted planning permission under ref. no. 18/835. Retention permission for existing domestic store/home gym and planning permission for proposed domestic garage, including all ancillary site works *SFI received on 8.7.24*

  Retention, 3 homes · Louth County Council, 2425

• 11 Oct 2023Conditional

  Permission to construct a single storey extension to the side of house, upgrading of existing effluent treatment system to a proprietary effluent treatment system/percolation area and the provision of a new vehicular access from the public road, along with ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23436

• 20 Jun 2023Conditional

  Permission for the following: 1) Construction of a two storey extension to the side of the existing house, 2) alterations to the existing house, 3) new waste water treatment plant and percolation area, 3) improvements to existing vehicular access, 4) associated site works and soakaways for surface water drainage

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360172

• 7 Jun 2023Conditional

  Permission for proposed widening of existing shared house/yard entrance to form new entrance to serve existing farmyard/land separate from house entrance and all associated works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2360143

• 6 Dec 2022Conditional

  Permission for development consisting of the demolition of a side porch structure and the erection of a part two storey, part single storey extension to an existing detached dwelling. The proposed works also include the demolition of an existing garage, amendments to existing entrance gates and piers on the public road and the construction of a detached domestic garage, front boundary wall, waste water treatment system with percolation area, soakaway and all associated site works **Significant further information received on 22.5.23 includes revisions to the development comprise of (i) elevational and layout changes to the proposed extesion (ii) amendments to the design and location of the garage on site, and (iii) a revised site layout plan to accommodate extended sighlines and all associated site works**

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 22946

• 23 May 2022Refused

  Outline permission for 21 no. residential units with a mix of 2, 3 and 4 bedroom dwellings, upgrade to existing site entrance, site boundary treatments and all associated site development and civil works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22404

• 21 Jan 2022Conditional

  permission for alterations to house design granted permission - ref. no. 21/887 - including revised waste water treatment system and percolation area, detached domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2241

• 15 Jul 2021Conditional

  Permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, access to site via existing laneway and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21887

• 16 Dec 2020Conditional

  Permission for development that will consist of a proposed market garden growing plots & polytunnel, renovation and change of use of existing agricultural buildings to farm shop, staff facilities and storage, upgrading/widening of existing roadside entrance, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 201110

• 3 Dec 2020Conditional

  Permission to erect a single storey dwelling with attic storage, new vehicular site entrance, site boundaries, a waste water treatment system and percolation area, the inclusion of an Appropriate Assessment Screening Report and all associated site development works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 201041

• 2 Nov 2020N/a

  Permission to erect a single storey dwelling with attic storage, new vehicular site entrance, site boundaries, a waste water treatment system and percolation area, the inclusion of a Natura Impact Statement and all associated site development works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20904

• 18 Sept 2020N/a

  Permission to erect a single storey dwelling with attic storage, new vehicular site entrance, site boundaries, a waste water treatment system and percolation area, the inclusion of a Natura Impact Statement and all associated site development works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20731

• 15 Jun 2020Conditional

  Permission for proposed single storey dwelling house, installation of proprietary waste water treatment system/percolation area together with associated site works, to be accessed by shared existing entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20410

• 16 Oct 2018Conditional

  The development will consist of the extension and alteration to the existing dormer dwelling, also replacement of existing septic tank with a new proprietary waste water treatment system, new single storey detached garden office room, upgrading entrance gates and all associated site works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 18835

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Dales.

Recorded monuments

• LH022-061 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a slight E-W ridge. The cropmark of a rectangular enclosure (dims c. 38m E-W; c. 35m N-S) defined by single fosses or drains is visible on a satellite image from Google Earth (21/07/2021). It is also visible on OSI images (1995) and was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (21/07/2021) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 May 2022

Architectural heritage

• Presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey parochial house, built c. 1880. Full-height advanced entrance bay to south, two-storey return to north, extension to north-west. Hipped slate roofs, cat-slide roof to extension, clay ridge tiles, red brick shouldered corbelled chimneystacks, cast-iron finial to advanced bay, moulded cast-iron gutters to overhanging eaves with painted timber sheeted soffit and modillions. Roughcast-rendered walling, tooled limestone plinth coping and V-jointed stone quoins, smooth rendered string course; smooth rendered walling to entrance. Segmental-headed window openings, smooth rendered soffits and reveals, tooled limestone sills, painted timber one-over-one sliding sash windows; paired limestone pointed trefoil-arched openings to first floor entrance bay, pointed trefoil-arched windows to east and west entrance bay, block-and-start limestone surrounds, hood mouldings with dressed block stops, stained glass leaded windows, apron to south window with quatrefoil dressings. Segmental-headed door opening to south, roll-moulded surround, moulded render Doric pilasters flanking painted timber six-panel door with brass furniture, plain-glazed overlight. Set in own grounds; yard to north, bounded to east by random coursed stone walls, red brick square piers having domed caps, corrugated-iron gates; two-storey random rubble stone outbuilding to north, pitched slate roof, square-headed window and door openings, occuli and half-dormer loft doors to first floor, red brick surrounds, painted timber vertical-sheeted doors; entrance to south, rendered gate piers, painted wrought-iron gates.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Dales.

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

Name

Dales · Dalas

Area

970,876 m² (97.09 ha, 239.91 acres)

Civil parish

Mayne, 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

Callystown, Glebe South, Killartery, Mayne

Placenames

Dales 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.