Drakestown

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drakestown, from 21 m² to 362,228 m² (36.22 ha, 89.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Drakestown 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.

• 18 Mar 2026Refused

  EXTENSION OF DURATION OF 20505 - Permission for a storey and a half style dwelling, single storey domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works **Significant Further Information received on 12/02/2021**

  Extension of duration · Louth County Council, 2637

• 18 Jul 2025Conditional

  The construction of a single storey extension to the rear of a dwellinghouse, linking two buildings together, and for associated siteworks.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560466

• 1 May 2025N/a

  Permission for the construction of a single storey extension to the rear of a dwellinghouse, a revision of plans previously approved under planning reference number 19774 relocating the front door position and for associated siteworks.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560254

• 11 Feb 2025Conditional

  Permission for the development of first floor extension to the rear of existing childcare facility to provide 2 No classrooms to accommodate up to 44 ECCE children from hours 8am to 6pm, with 4 No toilets, increasing total services users to a maximum of 94 children with new on-site wastewater treatment and modification to on site to provide 9 No. addition carparking space with associated landscaping & site works.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2560066

• 20 Jan 2025N/a

  The development will consist of first floor extension to the rear of existing childcare facility to provide 2 No classrooms to accommodate up to 44 ECCE children from hours 8am to 6pm, with 4 No toilets, increasing total services users to a maximum of 94 children with new on-site wastewater treatment and modification to on site to provide !!!No. addition carparking space with associated landscaping & site works.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2560024

• 9 Dec 2021Conditional

  EXTENSION OF DURATION OF 17/285 - Permission for construction of the following A) Construction of new two storey extension including 6 new classrooms, library, multipurpose room, GP hall, associated stores and administrative offices, along with refurbishment of existing school building. B) Demolition of existing boundary wall to the west of the site and construction of new boundary wall with seperate in and out vehicle access points, on-site bus turning and set down area including car park, 2 ball courts and bin storage area. C) New waste water treatment plant and all ancillary associated site works

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211458

• 27 May 2021Conditional

  Permission for development will consist of proposed dwelling house, roadside entrance, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works. *Significant Further Information received on 10/09/2021*

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21658

• 30 Apr 2021Conditional

  Retention permission for a two storey garage/shed to the rear of an existing dwelling house

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21503

• 2 Oct 2020Conditional

  Permission for proposed dwelling house, detached domestic garage, roadside entrance, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20776

• 15 Jul 2020Conditional

  Permission for development that will consist of the construction of a 2-storey dwelling, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system with percolation area, new entrance along with any ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20516

• 13 Jul 2020Conditional

  Permission for a storey and a half style dwelling, single storey domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works **Significant Further Information received on 12/02/2021**

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20505

• 12 Jun 2020N/a

  Permission for proposed dwelling house, roadside entrance, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20400

• 23 Sept 2019Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a single storey extension to a dwelling house linking it to a commercial unit, the change of use of part of the existing commercial unit to residential use, the construction of new windows and roof lights, for the construction of a new roadside boundary fence and footpath and for associated site works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 19774

• 19 Nov 2018Conditional

  Permission for development to consist of proposed change of use of former Drakestown National School from pre-school (granted permission for COU under Ref. No. 08/66 to coffee shop with proposed signage and all associated works. **Significant Further Information received 14/10/2019 to allow for removal / decommissioning of existing septic tank and provision of new waste water treatment system and percolation area.**

  Permission · Louth County Council, 18933

• 17 Jul 2018Conditional

  The development applied for will consist of a change of use from a shop to a dwelling house including alterations, a new porch, a new effluent treatment system, and for all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18554

• 20 Dec 2017Conditional

  Permission for development will consist of proposed 2 storey extension to front of existing 2 storey dwelling house and proposed 3no. dormer windows to roof on front elevation.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17944

• 13 Apr 2017Conditional

  Permission for construction of the following A) Construction of new two storey extension including 6 new classrooms, library, multipurpose room, GP hall, associated stores and administrative offices, along with refurbishment of existing school building. B) Demolition of existing boundary wall to the west of the site and construction of new boundary wall with seperate in and out vehicle access points, on-site bus turning and set down area including car park, 2 ball courts and bin storage area. C) New waste water treatment plant and all ancillary associated site works.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 17285

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 Drakestown.

Recorded monuments

• LH017-087001 Church
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Present church dates to 1831. Built on site of an earlier church dating to 1737. (CLAJ 1948, 309-10)

• LH017-087002 Graveyard
  Description

  Sub-triangular shaped graveyard (c. 95m x 85m x 70m) defined by townland boundary on two sides and roadway on third. Associated with church (LH017-087001-). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 22 June 2012

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drakestown.

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 high, 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 Drakestown.

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

Name

Drakestown · Baile an Drácaigh

Area

1,479,981 m² (148 ha, 365.71 acres)

Civil parish

Kildemock, and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Ardee Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardee Rural electoral division: 3,009 people in 1,003 households; 94% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Belpatrick, Kilpatrick, Smarmore

Placenames

Drakestown 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.