# Draghanstown, Co. Louth: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Dunany, barony of Ferrard, Co. Louth; in Irish Baile Dharcháin.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,313,057 m² (131.31 ha, 324.46 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 30,422 m² (3.04 ha, 7.52 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Dunany, https://everytownland.com/louth/parish/dunany.md
- Barony: Ferrard
- Electoral division: Drumcar, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Louth, https://everytownland.com/louth.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33577
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 140225
- Centre: latitude 53.857947, longitude -6.270448 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Draghanstown, from 181 m² to 289,263 m² (28.93 ha, 71.48 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1126609: 289,263 m² (28.93 ha, 71.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1126609.md
- Parcel 1137825: 110,000 m² (11 ha, 27.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1137825.md
- Parcel 1137855: 90,162 m² (9.02 ha, 22.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1137855.md
- Parcel 1137854: 89,382 m² (8.94 ha, 22.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1137854.md
- Parcel 1126668: 80,860 m² (8.09 ha, 19.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1126668.md
- Parcel 6075921: 61,921 m² (6.19 ha, 15.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6075921.md
- Parcel 1126669: 59,646 m² (5.96 ha, 14.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1126669.md
- Parcel 1097111: 54,523 m² (5.45 ha, 13.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1097111.md
- Parcel 1128267: 37,618 m² (3.76 ha, 9.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1128267.md
- Parcel 6075880: 32,089 m² (3.21 ha, 7.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6075880.md
- Parcel 1123321: 30,422 m² (3.04 ha, 7.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1123321.md
- Parcel 1126608: 22,345 m² (2.23 ha, 5.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1126608.md
- Parcel 1137826: 13,717 m² (1.37 ha, 3.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1137826.md
- Parcel 4720244: 10,241 m² (1.02 ha, 2.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4720244.md
- Parcel 5467728: 3,024 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5467728.md
- Parcel 1132147: 2,551 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1132147.md
- Parcel 1136338: 2,523 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1136338.md
- Parcel 1137262: 1,625 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1137262.md
- Parcel 1137619: 1,250 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1137619.md
- Parcel 1091398: 1,090 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1091398.md
- Parcel 1113813: 181 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1113813.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

2 applications, newest first.

- 31 May 2023, Louth County Council 2360129: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360129/0
- 24 Feb 2022, Louth County Council 22140: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/22140/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Protection Area: Dundalk Bay SPA, site code 004026, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004026

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LH019-035: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH019-035----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH019-039----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Dunany Cottage, house, 1860–1900, Regional interest, registry number 13901901, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LH&regno=13901901. 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.

## 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 Draghanstown, about 1 in 20 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 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 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/draghanstown.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/louth/draghanstown.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/louth/draghanstown.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Draghanstown 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)

- Corstown: https://everytownland.com/louth/corstown-140197.md
- Dunany: https://everytownland.com/louth/dunany.md
- Mitchelstown: https://everytownland.com/louth/mitchelstown.md
- Port: https://everytownland.com/louth/port.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.

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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/draghanstown
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/louth/draghanstown