Greenmount

116 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greenmount, from 9 m² to 404,424 m² (40.44 ha, 99.94 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.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O1Strategic Reserve (Strategic reserve, White land)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 2 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.

• 3 Jun 2026Conditional

  Permission for the demolition of existing side annex and to build in its place an attached, ground floor, single story kitchen extension. Include for conversion of existing garage to a bedroom and mud room, with front facing double doors. Converted garage to be connected to main house, via new kitchen extension. Include also for Bio Disc/Klargestor waste water treatment unit, new fencing and other works, of a minor nature

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660352

• 25 May 2026N/a

  Permission for the demolition of existing side annex and to build in its place an attached, ground floor, single story kitchen extension. Include for conversion of existing garage to a bedroom and mud room, with front facing double doors. Converted garage to be connected to main house, via new kitchen extension. Include also for new fencing and other works of a minor nature

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660325

• 22 May 2026Conditional

  Retention Permission for agricultural store extension onto existing stores. Permission for new detached agricultural store including access to same, on site soakaway and all associated site works

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2660320

• 29 Aug 2025Conditional

  Permission for the replacement of the existing domestic wastewater system (septic tank) to a new proprietary Bio tank waste water treatment system with all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 25136

• 1 Aug 2025N/a

  Permission for the replacement of the existing domestic wastewater system (septic tank) to a new proprietary Bio tank wastewater system with percolation area along with all the associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 25122

• 10 Feb 2025Conditional

  The proposed works will consist of the following: Permission for Works to facilitate infill and re-contouring of the subject lands using soil and subsoil to reclaim the land for commercial infilling purposes. A total infilled tonnes of 199.500 tonnes will be imported. The infilled material will be seeded and grassed. All associated works and services and use of existing entrance onto public road and services and use of existing entrance onto public road. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) will be submitted with the application. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will also be submitted along with the application. The application relates to an activity requiring a Waste Facility Permit from Louth County Council or Article 27 approval from the EPA which will be applied for separately. *Significant Further Information Received on 18/11/2025*

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2560064

• 10 Jul 2023Conditional

  Retention and Permission. Retention permission for rear extension to dwelling house including front porch, detached garage/carport, site boundaries and all associated site works. Permission for waste water treatment system and percolation area, and to decommission existing septic tank. *Further Information received on 13/09/2023*

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23326

• 30 Jun 2023Conditional

  The development will consist of retention permission for alterations to existing warehouse extension approved under planning ref: 19939, including 30m² office extension, additional circulation and open storage areas, boundary walls and surface water soakaways, together with permission for a new 2225.5m² warehouse building and all associated site development works at Mullins Cross, Dunleer. Co. Louth.`*SFI received on 3.5.24 includes The development will consist of retention permission for alterations to existing warehouse extension approved under planning ref: 19939, including 30m² office extension, increased site area, additional circulation and open storage areas, boundary walls and surface water soakaways and external lighting, together with permission for a new 2225.5m² warehouse building, alterations and a further increase of the site area and all associated site development works*

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2360189

• 10 Mar 2022Refused

  permission for a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, access to site off existing laneway and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 22175

• 15 Jul 2021Conditional

  Permission for development that will consist of a dwelling house, domestic garage, installation of a wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works. *FI received on 06/12/2021*

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21882

• 30 Mar 2021Conditional

  Retention Permission for development that consists of an existing telecommunication support structure (previously granted under planning ref. no. 10/426) together with associated ground equipment cabinets within a fenced compound

  Retention · Louth County Council, 21337

• 15 Dec 2020Conditional

  Permission Consequent on the grant of outline permission (ref no. 2091) for development that will consist of a new two storey dwelling with a single storey living area to the east, associated detached double garage, opening of a new vehicular entrance to site and waste water treatment system and percolation area together with all associated site development works. *Significant Further Information received on 14/05/2021*

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Louth County Council, 201102

• 2 Oct 2020Conditional

  Permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and associated site development works. *Significant Further Information received on 26/01/2021*

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20774

• 15 Sept 2020Conditional

  Outline permission sought for a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works. *Significant Further Information received on 04/01/2021*

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20714

• 25 Aug 2020N/a

  Outline Permission sought for a dwelling house and detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20644

• 11 Feb 2020Conditional

  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, 2091

• 12 Jul 2018Conditional

  The development will consist of provision of a new agricultural building and all associated site development works. *Significant Further Information Received on 07/02/2019*

  Permission · Louth County Council, 18547

• 21 May 2018Conditional

  The development consists of the construction of 297m of 2.4m high Palisade Fencing around the perimeter of the site and the installation of one manually operated lockable gate suited to match perimeter fencing.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 18382

• 18 May 2018Conditional

  Permission for development consisting of the retention of an extension to the rear of an existing dwelling house consisting of an extended living room and kitchen, a utility room and rear porches.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18377

• 6 Apr 2018N/a

  PERMISSION for development will consist of the construction of 297m of 2.4m high Palisade Fencing around the perimeter of the site and the installation of one manually operated lockable gate suited to match perimeter fencing.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 18254

• 3 Nov 2017Refused

  Permission for development (This is a Protected Structure Development Plan Ref. No. LHS015044). Greenmount Lodge was replaced with a new dwelling (now called Coolstown House) under PA Ref 106/85 granted planning permission in 1985. The proposed development is a new vehicular entrance for private traffic from the R132 Dublin Road to Coolstown House. The purpose of this development is to separate agricultural and public utility traffic serving the farm and farmyard and the Louth County Council water treatment plant from private traffic serving the house. The new entrance will include gates, wing-walls, railings and piers, landscaping as well as kerbing at the roadside site frontage and all associated site development works including alterations to ground levels. An existing agricultural field entrance towards the southern boundary of the site will be closed-up.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 17819

• 17 Aug 2017Conditional

  Permission sought for dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 17620

• 13 Jul 2017Conditional

  Permission consequent on a grant of outline permission Ref No. 16/680 sought for dwelling house and detached domestic garage.

  Permission consequent, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 17534

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 Greenmount.

Recorded monuments

• LH015-012001 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  Situated on a high E-W ridge, which has been scarped to produce a large impressive site consisting of an oval mound (max. diam. of base 28-36m; at summit 11-12m, H 3.4-5.6m) with a roughly D-shaped bailey (max. dims c. 65m E-W, c. 55m N-S, H c. 6m) at the E side. The mound is well preserved from SW to NE but elsewhere it has been quarried in relatively recent times so that its original shape and size are uncertain. The S side has also been ploughed out so that the outline of the motte is not well defined. There is a berm at the N side of the mound on which are the remains of a bank that has been partly defaced by quarrying. To the N of the motte and bailey the ridge has been scarped as part of the defences. A modern field fence and laneway have partly destroyed the E and S sides of the bailey escarpments which define the enclosure. The S side of the motte was mutilated by 'excavations' in the nineteenth century (Lefroy 1871, 471-502) and various artefacts were recovered, including a bronze axe and a bronze sword plate with a runic inscription, which translated reads 'Domnal Seals-head owned this sword'. During the course of these diggings a souterrain (LH015-012002-) was discovered. There are the remains of a rectangular enclosure defined by a low earthen bank (int. dims 11m E-W, 3.5m N-S, bank Wth 2.3m, max. H 0.9m) in the SW portion of the bailey, but it is probably of a much later date. (Wright 1758, bk I, 9, pls X, XI; Lefroy 1871, 471-502; O'Kelly and Morris 1905, 21-2) This is a National Monument: No. 144. The above 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. See the attached view from N Date of upload: 17 July 2007

• LH015-012002 Souterrain
  Description

  Located 18 feet (c. 6m) below the surface of the motte (LH015-012001-). The souterrain was 'excavated' in 1870 by J. H. Lefroy (1871, 471-502) and found to consist of a drystone-built passage (L c. 22 feet (7m), Wth c. 3 feet 3 in. (1m), H c. 5 ft (1.6m)), aligned N-S. (Leslie 1908, 12-20, 94) The above 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: 17 July 2007

• LH015-013 Milestone
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Greenmount Lodge, farmyard complex, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Ranges of multiple-bay single-storey with attic outbuildings, built c. 1800. Ranges surround yard, outbuildings punctuated by gable-fronted breakfronts, half-dormer windows, various single-storey extensions. Greenmount Lodge replaced by recent dwelling. Pitched and hipped slate and artificial slate roofs, clay and cement ridge tiles, cast-iron gutters on corbelled eaves course, circular cast-iron downpipes, tall red brick flat-capped chimneystacks with string banding to centre, clay pot, painted timber bargeboard to half-dormers; projecting canopies to stables. Red brick walling laid in Flemish bond, brick string course to pedimented breakfront, recessed blind oculus to tympanum. Square-headed window openings, stone sills, painted timber casement windows. Round- and square-headed door openings, painted timber vertically-sheeted whole and half-doors, leaded fanlight to round-headed door openings, external flight of timber steps to upper attic door. Camber-headed carriage arch openings, painted timber vertically-sheeted double doors, pointed arch opening to external wall of courtyard, brick surround. Fields and farm buildings surrounding complex, stone ice house remains to west; site bounded by red brick walling with dentilled string band and brick coping, corbelled red brick gate piers, painted wrought-iron gates.

• Greenmount Lodge, gates/railings/walls, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron gateway, built c. 1880, comprising cast-iron gate piers capped by decorative fleur-de-lis finials, cast-iron double gates with fleuron finials, pedestrian cast-iron gates to north and south, flanked by ashlar limestone quadrant walls forming splayed entrance, random rubble stone walling with soldier coping forming boundary to perimeter of site. Gate is situated to east of road-way giving access into Greenmount Lodge.

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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Greenmount · Droim Chatha

Area

2,163,492 m² (216.35 ha, 534.61 acres)

Civil parish

Kilsaran, and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Castlebellingham, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlebellingham electoral division: 1,882 people in 704 households; 72% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumcar, Kilsaran, Maine, Milestown, Mullincross, Williamstown

Placenames

Greenmount 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.