Grangebellew

79 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grangebellew, from 10 m² to 62,063 m² (6.21 ha, 15.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Grangebellew 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.

• 4 Dec 2025Conditional

  Retention permission for detached playroom/home office with WC, domestic store. Permission for on site soakaway

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560779

• 19 Nov 2025N/a

  Detached playroom/home office with WC , domestic store

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560737

• 8 Jul 2025N/a

  Chalet style structure consisting of living room / kitchen area, Two bedrooms and a shower room with toilet and wash hand basin

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2560437

• 22 Oct 2024Conditional

  Planning permission for a proposed agricultural dry base shed and all associated site development works *Significant Further Information Received on 16/05/2025*

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2460646

• 6 May 2024Refused

  Retention permission for change of use of former public house to 1 No. apartment including boundary wall to site and entrance gate. Permission for change of use of former public house to 2 No. new apartments, waste water treatment system and percolation area, decommission existing septic tank, car parking, new site boundaries and all associated site works

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2460252

• 23 Feb 2024Conditional

  Permission for a rear extension to existing dwelling including side glazed canopy, conversion of attic space to living accommodation including front dormer windows, alterations to existing dwelling and all associated site works. *Significant Further Information received on 25/09/2024 which includes new waste water treatment system and percolation area, decommission existing septic tank system. New soakaway to serve development.*

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460097

• 4 Nov 2022Conditional

  Permission for a proposed extension to the rear of existing dwelling house, proposed domestic garage, new waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 22868

• 30 Jan 2019Conditional

  Permission for a single storey extension to existing dwelling house and associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 1948

• 26 Apr 2018Conditional

  Permission consists of a new domestic garage and for all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18318

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 Grangebellew.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Grangebellew.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1860. Pair of single-storey pitched returns to north, lean-to extension to return, gable-fronted porch to south elevation. Pitched slate roof, sprocketed eaves to main house, mixture of square and fish scale slates, clay crested ridge tiles, red brick corbelled chimneystacks, smooth rendered verge coping to gables, painted timber decorative bargeboard with trefoil piercing, timber painted needle finials to east and west gables; painted timber bargeboard to porch, trefoil mouldings; uPVC rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walling, painted smooth rendered plinth, central string band, vertically banded quoins to south elevation and porch, eaves band. Square-headed window openings, painted smooth rendered patent reveals, painted stone sills, painted smooth rendered surround, painted timber two-over-two sliding sash windows to south, east and west elevations; painted timber casement windows to returns and entrance porch. Segmental-headed door opening to south elevation of porch, painted smooth rendered surround, painted timber door with four raised-and-fielded panels, painted timber console brackets to architrave, surmounted by plain-glazed fanlight; square-headed door opening to return, panelled timber glazed door, square-headed door opening to lean-to, painted timber vertically-sheeted door. House set back from road, gardens to north, east and south; outbuildings to west, round and pitched corrugated-iron and slate roofs, lime-washed rubble stone walling, external stone steps to loft opening, painted timber vertically-sheeted door; bounded by lime-washed coursed dry rubble stone wall, soldier coping, wrought-iron gates, square gate piers with pointed caps giving access to site.

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 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 Grangebellew.

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

Name

Grangebellew · Gráinseach an Dísirt

Area

596,754 m² (59.68 ha, 147.46 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

Barmeath, Briarhill, Cloghlea, Glebe, Hitchestown, Morganstown, Rathdrumin, Windmill

Placenames

Grangebellew 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.