Littlemill
Townland in the civil parish of Ballybarrack, barony of Dundalk Upper, Co. Louth; in Irish An Muileann Beag
- Area
- 41.9 ha
- 104 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 1,653 m²
- Zoning
- O1
- Strategic Reserve
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Littlemill, from 11 m² to 113,220 m² (11.32 ha, 27.98 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- O1Strategic Reserve (Strategic reserve, White land)
Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
12 Feb 2025Conditional
Permission for development will consist of a detached one-&-half-storey domestic shed to include storage and work-from-home office along with all associated site development works.
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560076
3 Feb 2025N/a
Further Information in relation to planning application reference 24/60274 for a detached one & half storey domestic shed to include storage and work from home office along with all associated site development works at Ballybarrack, Dundalk, Co.Louth
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560048
13 May 2024N/a
Permission for a detached one-&-half-storey domestic shed to include storage and work-from-home office along with all associated site development works
Permission · Louth County Council, 2460274
10 May 2024Conditional
Permission to demolish and remove existing single storey extension to gable end and rear extension also detached domestic shed and garden shed, full planning permission is sought for storey and half extension to rear of dwelling and connection to existing services and all associated site works
Permission · Louth County Council, 2460267
2 Apr 2024Conditional
Permission for a detached domestic garage to rear of dwelling and associated site development works off existing entrance *SFI received on 19.6.24 includes reduction in size of detached domestic garage and relocation of detached domestic garage on site*
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2447
4 Nov 2022N/a
Retention permission for as constructed alterations to a previously granted dwelling house (Planning Ref. No. 79142 - Dwellinghouse) including conversion of the as granted garage to a bedroom, bathroom and office, an extension to the rear with associated elevational changes and all associated site development works
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22869
25 May 2022Conditional
Permission for extension and alterations to an existing dwelling house, a domestic garage, a new waste water treatment system and associated site development works
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 22415
14 Dec 2017Conditional
Permission for development consisting of a detached garage with pitched roof and all associated site development works.
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17932
24 Nov 2017N/a
Permission for development consisting of a detached garage with pitch roof and all site development works.
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17865
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 Littlemill.
Recorded monuments
- LH007-071 Souterrain
Description
This souterrain was first opened around 1925-6 and although it was closed by the 1950s the location and a description from local people who had been in it was published by Etienne Rynne (1959, 1964). It was re-opened c. 1980 and a full record was made in 2017 using laser scanning technology (Campbell et al. 2018, 184-8). It consists of three passages but the original entrance at the SW end of passage 1 (visible L 6.8m NE-SW; max. Wth 1.3m at ground; Wth at top 0.85m; max. H 1.25m) is still closed. This passage narrows as it progresses NE (Wth at ground 1m; H 0.95m) and there is a small cupboard (Wth 0.35m; H 0.2m; D 0.85m) beneath the lintels c. 3m from the NE end of the SE wall, with a plough-marked stone in the same wall c. 1.5m NE of the cupboard. Passage 2 (L 2.8m) is signaled by a rise in floor level (0.3m) and of the roof (H 1.25m), and by a slight re-alignment to the N. A doorway (Wth 0.6m; H 1.02m; D 0.75m) with a single stone on the NW side allows access to passage 3 (L 17.8m NW-SE; Wth 1.4m; H 1.25m) which is undifferentiated but sloping down slightly and curving towards the W at the NW extremity where the present entrance is provided through the roof. There is an air-vent (Wth 0.2m; H 0.15m; L 1.7m) at roof level in the NW end-wall and the entrance doorway to passage 2 is 2.4m from the SE end of its SW wall. The entrance created in 1925-6 was identified as an area of collapse at the top of the SE wall in passage 2. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 17 July 2007 Revised: 17 January 2020
- LH007-162 House - Neolithic
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.
- LH007-163 Excavation - miscellaneous
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.
- LH007-164 Fulacht fia
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.
- LH007-165 Habitation site
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.
- LH007-195 Souterrain
Description
Discovered during harvesting in October 2017, the souterrain is on the northern flank of a low rise in a tillage field. It consists of an end gallery or expanded passage (L 10.7m, Wth 2.25m, H 1.65m) aligned E-W. There is a decrease in width and height towards the east end (Wth 1.5m, H 1.55m). Several animal bones, including horse bones, were recovered lying loose on the floor. The modern opening in the roof (L 1.3m, Wth 1.2m, D 0.7m) is where a lintel has collapsed 1.5m from the W end. At the east end of the passage there is a turn south to a second passage (L 2.7m, W 1.5m) which is blocked with soil to the lintels. The walls are drystone-built and roofed with lintels resting on corbels. (Campbell et al. 2018, 188) Compiled by: Kieran Campbell Uploaded on: 24 October 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Littlemill.
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 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2992 (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 Littlemill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Littlemill · An Muileann Beag
- Area
- 419,280 m² (41.93 ha, 103.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballybarrack, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dundalk Upper
- Electoral division
- Haggardstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Haggardstown electoral division: 9,301 people in 3,293 households; 77% of households own their home; 54% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybarrack, Donaghmore, Thomastown
- Placenames
- Littlemill 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.