Labanstown

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Labanstown, from 2,175 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) to 682,072 m² (68.21 ha, 168.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Labanstown 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.

• 25 Jun 2026N/a

  Permission for: 1. Construction of a new single storey extension to rear of existing cottage. 2. Construction of new garage store. 3. Existing septic tank to be decommissioned and replaced with new proprietary wastewater treatment system & percolation area. 4. All associated site works. 5. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of this planning application

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2660414

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: North-West Irish Sea cSPA 004236

Recorded monuments

• LH019-008 Church
  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 Local tradition of church, known locally as 'Leapadh Feichin' - 'St. Feighin's Bed', in the NW corner of a field known as 'Parkanassey'. No visible surface trace, and the exact location is not known.

• LH019-010 Standing stone
  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 Situated in flat, low-lying land to N of small ridge. Thin, slate pillar (max. dims. H 1.9m, 0.9m by 0.1m in section) orientated roughly NE-SW.

• LH019-023 Field system
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.A.32) shows cropmark of a field system, possibly co-axial. Aerial photographs (GB89.A.39) show cropmark of a field system, possibly related to an adjacent enclosure. Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of upload: 10 June 2009

• LH019-024 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape with a small W-E stream just to the N. Aerial photograph (GB89.A.35) shows cropmark of an incomplete enclosure defined by two fosses, bordering small stream, and adjacent to a possibly related field system. The enclosure is also partly visible on Digital Globe (2011-13). See the attached enhanced view from Digital Globe Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of upload: 10 June 2009 Amended: 9 June 2023

• LH019-031 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in a low-lying landscape. A small enclosure (diam. c. 20m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on the OSI aerial images (1995). It was first identified by Ivor Kenny. See the attached view from Map Genie (1995) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 October, 2015

• LH019-032 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a low-lying landscape. An enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a single fosse feature (diam. c. 30m) is visible on the OSI aerial images (1995). It was first identified by Ivor Kenny. See the attached view from Map Genie (1995) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 October, 2015

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Labanstown.

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 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 Labanstown.

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

Name

Labanstown · Baile an Lábáin

Area

1,461,237 m² (146.12 ha, 361.08 acres)

Civil parish

Drumshallon, 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

Cruisetown, Killally, Lurganboy, Nicholastown, Painestown, Parsonstown

Placenames

Labanstown 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.