Gallagh
Townland in the civil parish of Dysart, barony of Ferrard, Co. Louth; in Irish Gallach
- Area
- 105.5 ha
- 261 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 4,926 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gallagh, from 581 m² to 230,864 m² (23.09 ha, 57.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Gallagh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
1 Mar 2024Conditional
Permission for the conversion of attached garage to habitable space, new pitched tile roof to existing garage structure, including extensions to the rear and side of existing dwelling house and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460113
27 Jul 2023Conditional
Retention permission is sought for construction of a single storey extension incorporating garage/store to the side of existing dwelling house
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360251
27 Jun 2023N/a
Retention is sought for construction of a single storey extension incorporating garage/store to the side of existing dwelling house.
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360183
29 Apr 2022Conditional
permission for proposed single storey design dwelling house, detached domestic garage, on-site well, installation of proprietary waste water treatment system/percolation area, new vehicular access from public road together with all associated site works **Significant further information received on 14.12.22**
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 22346
15 Dec 2020Conditional
Permission sought for dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 201099
2 Oct 2020N/a
Retention & Permission: 1. Retention of variations to size/location of dry store, cattle shed & 2 no. slatted tanks, manure pit and unroofed walled silo all as constructed from previously granted permission under Ref. No. 06/361. 2. Retention of existing straw/hay shed, dry bedded lean-to cattle shed and slatted cattle shed with underground slatted tank all as constructed. 3. Proposed dry bedded/slatted cattle shed with 2 no. underground slatted tanks, walled manure pit, underground soiled water storage tank and all associated works all to existing farm complex
Retention · Louth County Council, 20777
21 Mar 2019Refused
Outline permission sought for dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19208
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Barmeath Woods 001801
Recorded monuments
- LH018-032 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 Flat slabs found in line in the 'stone field'. Possible souterrain lintels or long cists.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gallagh.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 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 Gallagh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Gallagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Gallagh · Gallach
- Area
- 1,054,572 m² (105.46 ha, 260.59 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dysart, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ferrard
- Electoral division
- Dysart, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dysart electoral division: 1,034 people in 323 households; 92% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynagrena, Barmeath, Corstown, Newhall, Skeaghmore, Trean, Tullydonnell
- Placenames
- Gallagh 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.