Dromgoolestown

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromgoolestown, from 73 m² to 166,709 m² (16.67 ha, 41.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Dromgoolestown 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 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct a two storey detached dwelling, a detached domestic garage, new vehicular entrance to site, a proposed waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site development works and services

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2560019

• 14 Jan 2025N/a

  Planning Permission to construct a two storey detached dwelling, a detached domestic garage, new vehicular entrance to site, a proposed waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site development works and services

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2560009

• 24 Oct 2024Refused

  Retention and Permission for the following: 1. Retention of recently installed septic tank to replace existing septic tank and 2. Permission to replace existing percolation area with new percolation area and all associated site development works

  Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2460655

• 17 Oct 2024N/a

  Retention and Permission for the following: 1. Retention of recently installed septic tank to replace existing septic tank and 2. Permission to replace existing percolation area with new percolation area and all Associated site development works

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2460631

• 15 Oct 2024N/a

  Retention and Permission for the following: 1. Retention of recently installed septic tank to replace existing septic tank and 2. Permission to replace existing percolation area with new percolation area and all associated site development works

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2460618

• 11 Sept 2024N/a

  Retention and Permission: 1. Retention of recently installed septic tank to replace existing septic tank and 2. Permission to replace existing percolation area with new percolation area and all Associated site development works

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2460534

• 28 Aug 2024N/a

  Retention and Permission for the following: 1. Retention of recently installed septic tank to replace existing septic tank and 2. Permission to replace existing percolation area with new percolation area and all associated site development works

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2460494

• 25 Oct 2023Refused

  Planning permission to construct a two storey detached dwelling, a detached domestic garage, new vehicular entrance to site, a proposed waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site development works and services

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2360418

• 3 Aug 2023Conditional

  Retention of alterations to front elevation, including fenestration, materials, window and door types, canopy roof over porch and bay window and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360267

• 21 Nov 2022Conditional

  Permission for dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, detached domestic garage and all associated site works. *Significant Further Information received on 24/03/2023*

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 22902

• 22 Sept 2022Conditional

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

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 22750

• 22 Sept 2022Conditional

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

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 22751

• 8 Apr 2022N/a

  Outline Permission for four dwelling houses, wastewater treatment system and percolation area for each, entrance to public road for each and all associated site works.

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22277

• 10 Feb 2022N/a

  outline permission sought for four dwelling houses, waste water treatment system and percolation area for each and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22100

• 16 Nov 2020N/a

  Permission for the removal of an existing hay shed and slatted cattle shed and construction of a new agricultural store

  Permission · Louth County Council, 20968

• 11 May 2020Refused

  Permission for construction of a new open animal farm with associated pathways, gates and shelters, a 153.9sqm farm shop with ancillary tea room, 18 no. car parking spaces, alterations to existing entrance, new waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 20326

• 5 Mar 2020N/a

  Permission for an agricultural general store and all associated site works within the curtilage of a protected structure LHS018-050

  Permission · Louth County Council, 20150

• 14 Feb 2020N/a

  Permission for development for an agricultural general store and all associated site works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 20105

• 19 Dec 2019Refused

  Permission for construction of a new open animal farm with associated pathways, gates and shelters, a 153.9sqm farm shop with ancillary tea room, 18 no. car parking spaces, alterations to existing site entrance, new waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 191088

• 12 Jul 2019N/a

  Permission for construction of a new open animal farm with associated pathways, gates and shelters, a 200sqm visitors café & farm shop, 26sqm storage shed, 27no. car parking spaces, alterations to existing site entrance, new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 19550

• 12 Jun 2019Conditional

  Permission sought for front porch, rear extension to existing dwelling, decommission existing septic tank, new waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works. **Significant Further information received 28/01/2020**

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 19457

• 10 May 2019N/a

  Permission for construction of a new open animal farm with associated pathways, gates and shelters, a 220sqm visitors café & farm shop, 26sqm storage shed, 27 no. car parking spaces, alterations to existing site entrance, new waste water treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 19357

• 19 Jul 2017Conditional

  Permission for development of a protected structure to consist of: Refurbishment and adaptation of part single -storey part two-storey dwelling involving demolition of a single-storey extension, roof repairs, insertion of 3 no. roof lights, creation/enlargement of 6 no. external window and door openings, creation of 9 no. internal openings, removal of internal partitions and raising of timber floors in two areas, insertion of staircase within earlier extension, moving of historic service stairs, repairs/renewel of historic windows and doors, reinstatement of external lime render, complete renewal of building services and installation of a waste water treatment system, raising of boundary wall in NE part of site, fitting of railings and gates to existing wall at main site entrance; Retention of roller shutter, window louvres and window boarding to mill building within curtilage and sliding gate to NE site entrance.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17552

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 Dromgoolestown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dromgoolestown.

Architectural heritage

• White Mills, miller's house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay single-storey miller's house, built c. 1820, now disused. Abutting mill to south. Hipped slate roof, clay hip and ridge tiles, projecting eaves, painted timber soffit, timber eaves brackets; smooth rendered corbelled chimneystacks, cast-iron gutters, uPVC downpipes. Painted roughcast rendered walling, painted smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed widow openings, tooled stone sills, smooth rendered reveals, painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows to north elevation, one-over-one sliding sash windows to west. Segmental-headed door opening to north elevation, smooth rendered reveals, painted timber double doors with six raised-and-fielded panels, flanked by sidelights and surmounted by plain-glazed fanlight with dentil cornice. Two-storey nine-bay former mill building abuts house to south, built c. 1820. Rectangular-plan, former mill wheel house projection to east, lean-to extension to west. Pitched slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, brick corbelled chimneystacks, cast-iron gutter and circular downpipes, dormer heads over first floor windows. Roughcast rendered walling, smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings, concrete sills, painted timber two-over-two sliding sash windows, painted timber casement windows to first floor, metal diamond pane window to extension. Squared-headed door openings, painted timber vertically-sheeted door, pointed arch door opening to north end of west elevation, painted timber vertically-sheeted door. Former millrace to east side, random rubble boundary walling, cast-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 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 Dromgoolestown.

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

Name

Dromgoolestown · Droim Gabhail

Area

997,113 m² (99.71 ha, 246.39 acres)

Civil parish

Stabannan, and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Stabannan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Stabannan electoral division: 677 people in 214 households; 94% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Charleville, Pollbrock, Richardstown, Stabannan

Placenames

Dromgoolestown 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.