Draghanstown

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Draghanstown, from 181 m² to 289,263 m² (28.93 ha, 71.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Draghanstown 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.

• 31 May 2023Conditional

  Permission for the change of use of part of existing shed from straw/ hay storage to cattle shed with underground slurry tank and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360129

• 24 Feb 2022Conditional

  retention permission for as constructed dwelling, existing access, landscaping and associated works as constructed and permission for proprietary onsite waste water treatment system to include raised polishing filter and percolation area; permeable surfacing to driveway, walkways and courtyard; use of existing well as source of potable water supply; additional landscaping; and associated works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22140

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Dundalk Bay SPA 004026

Recorded monuments

• LH019-035 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a N-facing slope. The cropmark of a D-shaped area (dim c. 40m NW-SE; c. 35m NE-SW) defined by a slight fosse is visible on Google Earth (21/07/2021). The straight side (L c. 25m) is at SW, and it is cut by a WNW-ESE field drain from the field system that is depicted on the 1835 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. It is also faintly visible on Digital Globe (2011-13), 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: 22 October 2021

• LH019-039 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on the N-facing slope of an E-W ridge. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a single fosse is visible only on an Aerial Premium image (2013-18). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from Aerial Premium (2013-18) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 January 2022

Architectural heritage

• Dunany Cottage, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey with attic house, built c. 1880. Canted single-storey hipped roof porch to front (east) elevation, central pitched roofed return to west, single-pitch extension to south-west. Pitched slate roofs, half dormers to east and north roof slopes, clay ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks with twin flues set diagonally on rectangular bases, painted timber decorative fretwork projecting bargeboards to south and north gables, painted timber plain projecting bargeboards to dormers, overhanging eaves, uPVC gutters and downpipes; lead hip cappings to porch. Unpainted smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walling, red brick walling to extension. Square-headed window openings, tooled limestone sills, painted timber casement windows; segmental-headed window openings to north and south sides of entrance porch, tooled limestone sills, painted timber fixed lights. Square-headed door opening to porch, painted timber door with four moulded panels, limestone threshold. Concrete perimeter paths, garden to east, rubble stone gate sweep, circular gate piers with shallow conical ashlar stone caps, wrought- and cast-iron gates, rubble stone single-storey house and farm complex around gravelled courtyard to west.

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

At the centre of the townland of Draghanstown, about 1 in 20 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Draghanstown.

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.

No address of the register names Draghanstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Draghanstown · Baile Dharcháin

Area

1,313,057 m² (131.31 ha, 324.46 acres)

Civil parish

Dunany, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

Electoral division

Drumcar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,415 people lived in 487 households in the Drumcar electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corstown, Dunany, Mitchelstown, Port

Placenames

Draghanstown 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.