Fairhill

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fairhill, from 445 m² to 416,399 m² (41.64 ha, 102.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• N1.6Transportation Development Hub (Other transport/general uses)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 18 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O1Strategic Reserve (Strategic reserve, White land)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C3Business and Technology (Office, business/technology park and related)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 26 Nov 2025Conditional

  We, Phoenix Tower Ireland III Limited are applying for Permission to install a 6m extension to the existing 25-metre-high multi-user lattice tower telecommunications structure (making a total height of 30m), carrying antenna and dishes together with associated ground equipment and associated site works at Brookville Business Park, Ardee Road, Dundalk, County Louth.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2560762

• 18 Jul 2025Refused

  Permission is being sought to extend the first floor, install a new roller shutter door to the rear of the unit and a change of use of 330m2 of the ground floor from enterprise to retail use.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2560459

• 15 Nov 2022Conditional

  Permission for the construction of 1 no. Enterprise Unit of gross floor area 3941m2, 75 no. car parking spaces, 10 no. cycle parking spaces, new 7m wide HGV access road and all associated site works, services and boundary treatments

  Permission · Louth County Council, 22887

• 12 Apr 2021Conditional

  Retention permission for a 25m high floodlight pole carrying telecommunications equipment together with ground mounted equipment. The site is located within the curtilage of protected structures D012A, D012B and D012C

  Retention · Louth County Council, 21388

• 12 Dec 2019Conditional

  Permission to demolish existing flat roof extension and replace with a single storey extension to side of existing single storey dwelling, elevational changes and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 191044

• 6 Dec 2019Conditional

  Permission for the construction of 3 no. enterprise units of gross floor area 2358m2 (Unit A - 702m2, Unit B - 778m2, Unit C - 878m2), 25 no. car parking spaces, all associated site works, services and boundary treatments

  Permission · Louth County Council, 191016

• 15 Nov 2019N/a

  Permission to demolish existing flat roof extension and replace with a single storey extension to side of existing single storey dwelling, elevational changes and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19945

• 4 Mar 2019Conditional

  Permission is sought for alterations to previously granted permission ref. 18/977, the alterations consist of the repositioning of the temporary building and associated revised boundary treatments and site works within the site boundary.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 19156

• 3 Dec 2018Conditional

  Permission for development to consist of the removal of the existing unauthorised structure and the erection of a new single storey temporary storage building, external compound and site security office, for a period of five years.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 18977

• 21 Dec 2017Conditional

  Development will consist of RETENTION permission for 551m2 of existing building, 368m2 of which will be used for storage of vehicles together with 543m2 of external compound with site security office.

  Retention · Louth County Council, 17966

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 Fairhill.

Recorded monuments

• LH007-076 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  There is a tradition of a fort in the 'Horseshoe field'. Nothing visible at ground level. (SMR file) Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 23 November 2011

• LH007-078 Souterrain
  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 Souterrain, L-shaped in plan, consisting of a passage (L c. 8m) running NW then turning NE into a second passage (L c. 14m). Blocked at both ends by collapse. (CLAJ 1912, 24)

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 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; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2992 (ZIP).

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

Name

Fairhill · An Clochán Caol

Area

949,578 m² (94.96 ha, 234.65 acres)

Civil parish

Dundalk, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Dundalk Rural, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybarrack, Cambrickville, Crumlin, Killally, Priorland, Rath

Placenames

Fairhill 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.