# Gallstown, Co. Louth: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Marlestown, barony of Ferrard, Co. Louth; in Irish Baile Ghall. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 894,427 m² (89.44 ha, 221.02 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,787 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Marlestown, https://everytownland.com/louth/parish/marlestown.md - Barony: Ferrard - Electoral division: Clogher, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Clogher electoral division: 3,446 people in 1,141 households; 80% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Louth, https://everytownland.com/louth.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33969 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 140282 - Centre: latitude 53.800811, longitude -6.36085 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gallstown, from 344 m² to 514,863 m² (51.49 ha, 127.23 acres); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1114874: 514,863 m² (51.49 ha, 127.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1114874.md - Parcel 1125953: 303,277 m² (30.33 ha, 74.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1125953.md - Parcel 1125326: 47,181 m² (4.72 ha, 11.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1125326.md - Parcel 1115855: 9,826 m² (0.98 ha, 2.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1115855.md - Parcel 1132689: 5,437 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1132689.md - Parcel 1113348: 3,175 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1113348.md - Parcel 1121229: 2,951 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1121229.md - Parcel 1117906: 2,623 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1117906.md - Parcel 4761244: 2,167 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4761244.md - Parcel 1123326: 983 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1123326.md - Parcel 4761278: 935 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4761278.md - Parcel 5981828: 912 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5981828.md - Parcel 4761526: 644 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4761526.md - Parcel 4761303: 344 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4761303.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gallstown 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) 6 applications, newest first. - 4 Dec 2024, Louth County Council 2460766: Conditional. Permission. Permission for proposed development to consist of: (i) The construction of 5 no. wind turbines with the following parameters: a) Total tip height range of 179.5m – 180m, b) Rotor diameter range of 149m – 163m, c) Hub height range of 98m to 105m, (ii) Construction of turbine foundations, crane hardstand areas and assembly areas; (iii) All associated wind farm underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the turbines and meteorological mast to the proposed onsite electrical substation including cabling. in the public road corridor in the townlands of Gallstown and Kearneystown; (iv) Construction of 1 no. permanent 38kV electrical substation compound including a single-storey control building with welfare facilities, all associated electrical plant and equipment, security fencing, gates, all associated underground cabling, wastewater holding tank, and all ancillary structures and works in the townland of Piperstown. (v) A Battery Energy Storage System within the 38kV electrical substation compound; (vi) All works associated with the connection of the proposed wind farm to the national electricity grid which includes 5 no. of water crossings (3 no. bridges and 2 no. culverts). The provision of joint bays and associated communication chambers along the underground electrical cabling route via underground 38kV electrical cabling predominantly within the public road corridor, from the onsite substation in the townland of Piperstown to the existing Drybridge 110 kV Substation located in the townland of Tullyallen; (vii) Reinstatement of all road and track surfaces above cabling trench along existing roads and tracks in public lands; (viii) Provision of new site access tracks and upgrade of existing site tracks/roads to facilitate access to all onsite infrastructure this includes 3 no. water crossings, passing bays and all associated drainage; (ix) The provision of 2 no. new permanent site entrances for construction and operational access from the local road L6274 in the townlands of Kearneystown and Gallstown; (x) The permanent realignment of 1 no. existing entrance for construction and operational access to the 38kV electrical substation compound from the local road L2275 in the townland of Piperstown; (xi) Use of 1 no. existing site entrance for construction, operational access to the permanent met mast on a private road off local road L2275 in the townland of Drumshallon. (xii) The construction of 1 no. new temporary track in the townland o. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460766/0 - 18 Nov 2024, Louth County Council 2460709: N/a. Permission. Permission for a ten year development for: (i) The construction of 5 no. wind turbines with the following parameters: a) Total tip height range of 179.5m – 180m, b) Rotor diameter range of 149m – 163m, c) Hub height range of 98m to 105m, (ii) Construction of turbine foundations, crane hardstand areas and assembly areas; (iii) All associated wind farm underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the turbines and meteorological mast to the proposed onsite electrical substation including cabling. in the public road corridor in the townlands of Gallstown and Kearneystown; (iv) Construction of 1 no. permanent 38kV electrical substation compound including a single-storey control building with welfare facilities, all associated electrical plant and equipment, security fencing, gates, all ssociated underground cabling, wastewater holding tank, and all ancillary structures and works in the townland of Piperstown. (v) A Battery Energy Storage System within the 38kV electrical substation compound; (vi) All works associated with the connection of the proposed wind farm to the national electricity grid which includes 5 no. of water crossings (3 no. bridges and 2 no. culverts). The provision of joint bays and associated communication chambers along the underground electrical cabling route via underground 38kV electrical cabling predominantly within the public road corridor, from the onsite substation in the townland of Piperstown to the existing Drybridge 110 kV Substation located in the townland of Tullyallen; (vii) Reinstatement of all road and track surfaces above cabling trench along existing roads and tracks in public lands; (viii) Provision of new site access tracks and upgrade of existing site tracks/roads to facilitate access to all onsite infrastructure this includes 3 no. water crossings, passing bays and all associated drainage; (ix) The provision of 2 no. new permanent site entrances for construction and operational access from the local road L6274 in the townlands of Kearneystown and Gallstown; (x) The permanent realignment of 1 no. existing entrance for construction and operational access to the 38kV electrical substation compound from the local road L2275 in the townland of Piperstown; (xi) Use of 1 no. existing site entrance for construction, operational access to the permanent met mast on a private road off local road L2275 in the townland of Drumshallon. (xii) The construction of 1 no. new temporary track in the townland of Castleto. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460709/0 - 8 Nov 2023, Louth County Council 2360442: Conditional. Permission. Permission for a facility for the recovery of waste concrete (17 01 01) and waste asphalt (17 03 02 - bituminous mixtures other than those mentioned in 17 03 01) on a 1.3ha area at Gallstown Quarry, as conducted previously at this site. The recovered materials will meet the Environmental Protection Agency End of Waste Criteria. A Waste Facility Permit will be sought for this activity *SFI received on 13.2.24 includes removal of asphalt waste from the development description. The development will consist of a facility for the recovery of waste concrete (17 01 01) on a 1.3ha area at Gallstown Quarry, as conducted previously at this site.**. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360442/0 - 16 Oct 2023, Louth County Council 23441: Conditional. Permission. Permission for (a) 2 no. 3 bay covered aggregate storage sheds (each gross floor space 1,177sqm, maximum height 10m); (b) a Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) milling plant with two covered storage bays and all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/23441/0 - 10 Feb 2023, Louth County Council 2362: Conditional. Permission. Permission for a temporary period of three years for development on a site of c. 1.1 hectares on lands located in Gallstown, for the continuation of use of the readymix batching plant, prefabricated sales/site office, canteen/washroom (welfare) facilities, car parking area, aggregate storage bays, water recycling ponds and truck washout and all associated plant, permitted under ref. no. 01/1370 (ABP ref. no. PL15.128833). There are no physical changes proposed to these existing permitted buildings, ancillary infrastructure and plant on the site. There are no changes proposed to the permitted operating hours of 07.00hrs to 20.00hrs, Monday to Friday and 07.00hrs to 14.00hrs Saturday. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2362/0 - 14 May 2018, Louth County Council 18364: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission for the relocation of an existing weighbridge, the construction of a new single storey weighbridge controls office (maximum height 3.67metres) and the provision of a second new weighbridge, plus associated works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/18364/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gallstown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LH021-011: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH021-011----. Marked on the 1912 'OS 6-inch' map as 'Toberanelshy'. Also referred to as 'Tober an Eleshy' (Stubbs 1908, 40). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 17 July 2012 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gallstown. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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: Susceptibility 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 Gallstown. - 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/gallstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/louth/gallstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/louth/gallstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gallstown 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) - Cartanstown: https://everytownland.com/louth/cartanstown.md - Drumshallon: https://everytownland.com/louth/drumshallon.md - Kearneystown: https://everytownland.com/louth/kearneystown.md - Keeverstown: https://everytownland.com/louth/keeverstown.md - Rokeby: https://everytownland.com/louth/rokeby.md - Swinestown: https://everytownland.com/louth/swinestown.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. --- 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/gallstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/louth/gallstown