Mitchelstown

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mitchelstown, from 121 m² to 309,467 m² (30.95 ha, 76.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Mitchelstown 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.

• 29 Apr 2024Conditional

  Permission consequent on the grant of outline permission, ref. no. 21870, for a new single storey dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, new vehicle access onto public road and all associated site works

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2468

• 13 Jul 2021Conditional

  Outline permission for development that will consist of dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21870

• 26 Mar 2021N/a

  Outline permission sought for dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21323

• 9 Aug 2018Conditional

  The development will consist of the following: 1.Construction of a new detached dwelling 2.Construction of new garage 3.New proprietary wastewater treatment system & percolation area 4.New entrance to site 5.All associated site works. **SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION RECEIVED 26/10/2018**

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 18634

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

• LH019-029001 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a rise in a fairly level landscape. A small circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible as a cropmark on the OSI series of aerial photographs (1995). There is no visible entrance feature. A section of a NNE-SSW road (ME019-029002-) is visible as a cropmark c. 100m to the W. The features were first identified by Ivor Kenny. See the attached enhanced view from Map Genie (1995) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 19 December, 2014

• LH019-029002 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Located on a fairly level landscape. A section of a NNE-SSW road (L c. 200m) is visible on the OSI series of aerial photographs (1995) as the cropmarks of two ditches running NNE-SSW and placed c. 5-10m apart. They are c. 100m W of enclosure (LH019-029001-). The features were first identified by Ivor Kenny. See the attached enhanced view from Map Genie (1995) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 19 December, 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Mitchelstown, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Mitchelstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Mitchelstown · Baile Mhistéala

Area

614,755 m² (61.48 ha, 151.91 acres)

Civil parish

Dunany, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

Electoral division

Drumcar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,415 people lived in 487 households in the Drumcar electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Draghanstown, Dunany, Port

Placenames

Mitchelstown 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.