Deerpark
Deerpark is a townland in the civil parish of Philipstown (Dundalk Ra), barony of Dundalk Upper, Co. Louth. Its name in Irish is Páirc na bhFia.
- Area
- 32.3 ha
- 80 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 4,842 m² (0.48 ha, 1.2 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Deerpark, from 258 m² to 134,682 m² (13.47 ha, 33.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Deerpark 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
12 Nov 2025Conditional
Permission for an extension and alterations to an existing dwelling house, new waste water treatment system and associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 25166
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 Deerpark.
Recorded monuments
- LH006-106 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked 'Fort' on the 1835 'OS 6-inch' map. A circular flat topped mound with a circular depression in the centre and a limekiln at the S edge. Extending to the SE from the mound is a semi-circular ramp which is possibly the remains of a ringfort. When inspected by ASI in 1966 the site was overgrown with thorn bushes. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload/revision: 23 November 2011
- LH006-134001 Ring-ditch
Description
Situated on a rise in a gently undulating landscape. The cropmark of a small enclosure (diam. c. 10m) defined by a single unbroken fosse (Wth c. 2m) is only visible on Google Earth (21/07/2021). It 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; 21 October 2021
- LH006-134002 Ring-ditch
Description
Situated in a gently undulating landscape. The cropmark of a small enclosure (diam. c. 15m) defined by a single unbroken fosse (Wth c. 1m) is only visible on Google Earth (21/07/2021). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced aerial view from Google Earth (21/10/2021) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 October 2021
- LH006-134003 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a rise in a gently undulating landscape. The cropmark of a small enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a single unbroken fosse (Wth c. 2-3m) is only visible on Google Earth (21/07/2021). It is cut by a N-S field bank towards the perimeter at W, and it 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: 21 October 2021
- LH006-134004 Ring-ditch
Description
Situated on a slight SE-facing slope in a gently undulating landscape. The cropmark of a small enclosure (int. diam. c. 5m) defined by a single unbroken fosse (Wth c. 3-4m) is only visible on Google Earth (21/07/2021). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced aerial view from Google Earth (21/07/2021) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 October 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Deerpark.
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 Deerpark, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2961 (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 Deerpark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Deerpark · Páirc na bhFia
- Area
- 322,503 m² (32.25 ha, 79.69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Philipstown (Dundalk Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Dundalk Upper
- Electoral division
- Barronstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 752 people lived in 255 households in the Barronstown electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Killin, Knockagh, Newtownbalregan, Philipstown, Rathmore
- Placenames
- Deerpark 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.