Killartery
Townland in the civil parish of Mayne, barony of Ferrard, Co. Louth; in Irish Cill Airtrí
- Area
- 85.9 ha
- 212 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 3,028 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killartery, from 19 m² to 250,286 m² (25.03 ha, 61.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Killartery 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
30 Apr 2026Conditional
Retention and Permission: Retention permission for the cabin structure, 2m high metal fence and electric gate to front boundary. Full permission for provision of a new wastewater treatment plant with soil polishing filter and decommissioning of the existing wastewater treatment plant and all associated site development works "SPLIT DECISION" 1. TO GRANT RETENTION PERMISSION for the cabin structure AND TO GRANT PERMISSION for the provision of a new wastewater treatment plant with soil polishing filter and decommissioning of the existing wastewater treatment plant subject to the 5 conditions set out in Schedule 1 attached. 2. TO REFUSE RETENTION PERMISSION for the 2m high metal fence and electric gate to front boundary for the reason set out in Schedule 2 attached. 3. TO GRANT RETENTION PERMISSION for the cabin structure AND TO GRANT PERMISSION for the provision of a new wastewater treatment plant with soil polishing filter and decommissioning of the existing wastewater treatment plant subject to the 5 conditions set out in Schedule 1 attached.
Retention · Louth County Council, 2660251
8 Dec 2025N/a
Retention permission for the cabin structure, 2m high metal fence and electric gate to front boundary as well as the decommissioning of the existing wastewater treatment plant and the provision for a new wastewater treatment plant and all associated site development works
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560793
13 Nov 2023Conditional
Permission for proposed new single storey extension to south east side of existing dwelling and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360457
15 Apr 2021N/a
Retention permission for Clay Pigeon Shooting Facility which includes launching towers, log cabin, storage sheds, chemical toilet and shooting areas along with ancillary site development works
Retention · Louth County Council, 21407
21 Oct 2020Conditional
Permission consequent on grant of outline permission ref 20383 for a proposed dwelling house, waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated site development works. *Significant Further Information received on 01/02/2021 provides for, inter alia, change of house design*
Permission consequent, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20858
3 Jun 2020Conditional
Permission for a proposed dwelling house, waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated site development works
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20383
15 Oct 2019N/a
Retention for a Clay Pigeon Shooting Facility including launching towers, log cabin, storage sheds and shooting areas along with ancillary site development works.
Retention · Louth County Council, 19850
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 Killartery.
Recorded monuments
- LH022-001 Burial ground
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 Stubbs (CLAJ 1910, 290) refers to old church in this townland. Scarped bank to E of house may indicate traces of graveyard.
- LH022-060 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on a NE-facing slope. The cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 27m) defined by a single fosse with an entrance gap (Wth c. 5m ) at ESE is only visible on Digital Globe (2011-13). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from Digital Globe (2011-13) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 January 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Killartery.
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 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 Killartery.
- 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 Killartery with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Killartery · Cill Airtrí
- Area
- 858,826 m² (85.88 ha, 212.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mayne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ferrard
- Electoral division
- Clogher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 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.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Callystown, Dales, Garrolagh, Glebe West, Mayne, Reynoldstown, Walshestown
- Placenames
- Killartery 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.