Hamlinstown
Townland in the civil parish of Drumshallon, barony of Ferrard, Co. Louth; in Irish Baile Haimlín
- Area
- 94.3 ha
- 233 acres
- Land parcels
- 102
- registered freehold, median 3,265 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 24
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
102 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hamlinstown, from 14 m² to 108,899 m² (10.89 ha, 26.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 40 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 Hamlinstown 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
19 Jun 2026Conditional
Permission for minor alterations to the existing dwelling comprising, 1. Change of use of the attached domestic garage to use as a bedroom including the removal of the existing garage door, infilling garage door opening with new wall and window, installation of door to rear wall. 2. Change of use of the existing first floor area to use as 2no. bedrooms including the construction of internal walls and 2no. flat roof dormer extensions to rear pitch of the roof of the dwelling, 3. The decommissioning of the existing on-site septic tank and the installation of a new packaged wastewater treatment system, raised percolation area and all associated below ground services.
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660402
3 May 2025Refused
Outline permission for the construction of a split level dwelling, wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, new entrance and all ancillary site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560257
23 Dec 2024Conditional
Retention permission for an attic conversion, front porch and sun room to an existing dwelling house
Retention · Louth County Council, 2460828
18 Dec 2024N/a
Retention Permission for an attic conversion, front porch and sun room to an existing dwelling house at the Parochial House
Retention · Louth County Council, 2460800
13 Nov 2024Refused
Outline Permission for the construction of a new dwelling house which will include the upgrading and extension of existing access roadway, a proprietary waste water treatment system with percolation area along with all other associated siteworks
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460697
8 Nov 2024N/a
Outline Permission for the construction of a new dwelling house which will include the upgrading and extension of existing access roadway, a proprietary waste water treatment system with percolation area along with all other associated siteworks
Outline permission · Louth County Council, 2460689
12 Jan 2022N/a
retention permission sought for an as constructed timber privacy fence to the northern boundary of property
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2215
22 Oct 2021Refused
Permission for development to consist of erection of a fully serviced two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, entrance piers, install sewage treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 211299
5 Jul 2021Conditional
Permission for a new two storey dwelling with domestic garage, effluent treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works. *Further Information received on 28/02/2022*
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 21826
2 Jun 2021N/a
Permission for development that will consist of two storey dwelling with garage effluent treatment plant percolation area and all associated siteworks
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 21688
29 Mar 2021Refused
Permission sought for dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 21332
26 Nov 2020Conditional
Permission for development that will consist of a dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage wastewater treatment system and percolation area, and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 201010
3 Nov 2020Refused
Outline permission sought for dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, detached domestic garage and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20913
9 Oct 2020N/a
Outline permission sought for dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, detached domestic garage and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20804
10 Sept 2020Conditional
Permission for a two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, installation of proprietary waste water treatment system/percolation area, new vehicular access from public road together with associated site works. *Significant Further Information received on 23/11/2020*
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20701
28 Aug 2020Conditional
Development consisting of a proposed two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated site development works *Significant Further Information submitted 23/12/20*
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20658
10 Aug 2020N/a
Permission for proposed two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, installation of proprietary waste water treatment system/percolation area, new vehicular access from public road, together with associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20590
29 May 2020Conditional
Permission for a new two storey dwelling house, provision of a new vehicular access onto existing public road, domestic garage, new waste water treatment system and all associated site works **Significant Further Information received 04/09/2020 to allow for revised house design and relocation of vehicular entrance**
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20365
7 Feb 2020Conditional
Permission for a development consisting of a new 218m2, split level, 3 bedroom, rendered dwelling house, 51m2 garage adjacent both with pitched rooves, waste water treatment system and associated sand polishing filter, driveway and all associated site works. **Significant Further Information received 26/06/2020 to allow for construction of a 190sqm split level 3 bedroom rendered dwelling, 51 sqm garage adjacent both with pitched roves, waste water treatment system and associated sand polishing filter, driveway and all associated site works**
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2076
7 Jun 2019Conditional
Permission for the construction of a new dwelling house, waste water treatment plant and percolation area, detached domestic garage, new vehicular entrance and all associated site development works.
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19437
13 Feb 2019N/a
Permission for development to consist of a new 218m2 split level, 3 bedroom, rendered dwelling house, 51m2 garage adjacent, both with pitched roofs, waste water treatment system and associated sand polishing filter, driveway and all associated site works.
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 1993
14 Jan 2019N/a
Permission for the development of a new 218m2, split level, 3 bedroom, rendered dwelling house, 51m2 garage adjacent, both with pitched roofs, waste water treatment system and associated sand polishing filter, driveway and all associated site works.
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 1916
9 Jun 2017Refused
EXTENSION OF DURATION - new two storey dwelling with domestic garage, effluent treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works
Extension of duration, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17433
12 May 2017Conditional
Retention and permission for development consisting of retention of alterations to dwelling house from that granted under ref. 06135, including extended lower ground floor. Full permision is sought for completion of front boundary stone wall and vehicular entrance wing walls and piers.
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17351
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Hamlinstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Hamlinstown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Hamlinstown.
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 20 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3074 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Hamlinstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Hamlinstown · Baile Haimlín
- Area
- 942,662 m² (94.27 ha, 232.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumshallon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ferrard
- Electoral division
- Mullary, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Mullary electoral division: 1,870 people in 560 households; 95% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymakenny, Brownstown, Cotlerstown, Fieldstown
- Placenames
- Hamlinstown 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.