Littlegrange

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Littlegrange, from 9 m² to 597,832 m² (59.78 ha, 147.73 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.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 29 May 2019Conditional

  Permission for the change of use of existing agricultural building to dog kenneling use, permanently closing one existing vehicular entrance onto the public road, and all associated external site development works.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 19410

• 15 Mar 2019Refused

  Permission for the change of use of existing agricultural building to dog kennelling use and all associated external site development works.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 19195

• 14 Dec 2017N/a

  Permission of development will consist of demolition of existing farm buildings and construction of the following: *New dwelling house with waste treatment and percolation area with associated site works * extension and change of use of existing house into arrival hub * interpretative building * research building which includes pig pens and research laboratory with associated rooms * 8 new farm buildings which include office, canteen, changing rooms, bathrooms and substation. * Manure storage building. * New feed silos * two water storage tanks, with all associated site works which include new internal raod layout, car parking, new landscaping tour path, water feature and sculpture, site services and lighting.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17931

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
• Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232

Recorded monuments

• LH023-005 Enclosure
  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 Cropmark ring defining circular enclosure (max. dims. c. 38m N-S, c. 30m E-W) on aerial photograph (CUCAP, ASV 76).

• LH023-006 Enclosure
  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 Cropmark ring defining subcircular enclosure (max. dims. c. 44m N-S, c. 42m E-W) on aerial photograph (CUCAP, ASV 76)

• LH024-085 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a S-facing slope on the N side of the valley of a meandering W-E section of the Mattock River, which is c. 80m to the W and c. 50m to the S. The cropmark of an arc of a fosse (Wth c. 2-3m) is visible W-N-E (int. diam. c. 35m E-W) only on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. It was first reported by Anthony Murphy. See the attached enhanced view from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 January 2020

• LH024-086 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a rise of a gentle S-facing slope on the N side of the valley of a meandering W-E section of the River Mattock, which is c. 60m to the SE at the closest point. The cropmark of an oval enclosure (dims c. 50m NNE-SSW; c. 40m WNW-ESE) defined by a single fosse or drain is visible only on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018, but the perimeter cannot be traced SE-SW or W-NNW. The enclosure (LH024-085----) is c. 45m to the W, and it was first reported by Anthony Murphy. See the attached enhanced aerial view from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 January 2020

• LH024-088 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Located towards the top of a S-facing slope. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 10m) defined by a single continuous fosse is visible on Apple Maps which utilises a survey undertaken by Bluesky International in June 2018. It was first reported b Anthony Murphy. See the attached view from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 April 2020

Architectural heritage

• Littlegrange House, house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey house, built c. 1860. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls with limestone quoins and string course. Timber sliding sash windows.

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Littlegrange.

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

Name

Littlegrange · An Ghráinsigh Bhig

Area

1,436,025 m² (143.6 ha, 354.85 acres)

Civil parish

Tullyallen, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

Electoral division

Monasterboice, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Monasterboice electoral division: 1,445 people in 491 households; 93% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balfeddock (Co. Meath), Dowth (Co. Meath), Monknewtown (Co. Meath), Proudfootstown (Co. Meath), Sheepgrange, Townleyhall

Placenames

Littlegrange 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.