Monascreebe

95 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Monascreebe, from 59 m² to 232,746 m² (23.27 ha, 57.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Monascreebe 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.

• 11 Dec 2023Conditional

  Permission for new single story extensions to the rear and sides of the existing house and a new garage to the rear of the house, demolition of existing house extension, garage and shed, new waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23479

• 28 Jun 2023Refused

  New vehicular entrance to serve an existing dwelling house and associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23311

• 7 Jun 2023Conditional

  Permission is sought for alterations to domestic garage previously granted under Planning Reference 20/387 and all associated site development works. The development will consist of construction of a domestic garage and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360142

• 30 May 2023N/a

  Permission for a new vehicular entrance to serve an existing dwelling house and associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23261

• 10 May 2023N/a

  Permission for alterations to domestic garage previously granted under planning ref. no. 20/387 and all associated site development works. The development will consist of the construction of a domestic garage and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23232

• 5 Jun 2020Conditional

  Permission consequent on the grant of Outline Permission under planning ref. no. 19738 for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and associated site development works. Permission also for a domestic garage and associated site development works * Significant Further Information submitted 16/9/20*

  Permission consequent, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20387

• 5 May 2020Conditional

  Permission for the conversion of the existing attic space to include three bedrooms, bathroom, three dormer windows to the front elevation, velux windows to the rear, one new bedroom window to gable elevation one and balcony doors to gable elevation two

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20315

• 26 Mar 2020N/a

  Permission for the conversion of the existing attic space to include three bedrooms, bathroom, three dormer windows to the front elevation, velux windows to the rear, one new bedroom window to the gable elevation 1 and balcony doors to gable elevation 2

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20236

• 30 Sept 2019Refused

  Retention permission for a portal frame shed for use as a vehicle store/workshop and permission for site development works to include relocation of entrance, surfacing of part of the site, drainage and new boundary treatment and all associated site development works.

  Retention · Louth County Council, 19798

• 11 Sept 2019Conditional

  Outline permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and associated site development works.

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19738

• 22 Aug 2019N/a

  Retention permission for a portal frame shed for use as a vehicle store/workshop and permission for site development works to include relocation of entrance, surfacing of part of the site, drainage and new boundary treatment and all associated site development works.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19668

• 7 Aug 2019N/a

  Outline permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and associated site development works.

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19639

• 27 Feb 2019Refused

  Retention permission for a portal frame shed for use as a vehicle store / workshop, new palisade fence and all associated site development works.

  Retention · Louth County Council, 19138

• 3 Apr 2017Conditional

  Permission for demolition of an existing house and outer buildings and construction of a new replacement dwelling house, waste water treatment system and associated site works. ** significant further information received 16/11/2017**

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17236

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Monascreebe.

Recorded monuments

• LH004-016 Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
  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 This portal-tomb stands at the W end of a mound 9m long by 5.5m wide. The E end of the mound terminates at a fence and another runs along its southern side. The chamber is represented by two portal stones, about 1.5m high, and adjoining side stones, both pitched heavily inwards. Between the portals is a stone, at least 0.7m in maximum dimension, which could be a fallen door stone.

• LH004-018 Ringfort - rath
  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 Circular area (int. diam. 35m) enclosed by earth and stone bank (Wth 7m, H 1.2m internally, 1.8m externally), best preserved on E and W but replaced elsewhere by modern stone walls. There are traces of both original internal and external stone facings beneath the modern field walls. Slight traces of external fosse (Wth 3.2m, D 0.2m) at E. Ancient entrance at E (Wth 2.3m) has both sides faced with large stones.

• LH004-019 Ringfort - rath
  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 Bivallate ringfort shown on 1835 ed. of OS 6-inch map. Now levelled.

• LH004-020 Ringfort - rath
  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 Sub-circular area (int. dims. 49m NNW-SSE, 44.5m E-W) enclosed by earth and stone bank (Wth 6.3m, H 2m internally, 2.5m externally), now largely reduced to a scarp in the SW quadrant. Externally fosse (Wth 5.5m, D 1.6m) survives from NNW-N-E-SE, with remains of a modern stone wall around the outer edge of the fosse from NE-E-SE. The interior of the site is divided in two by a modern field wall, running NNW-SSE.

• LH004-109 Earthwork
  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 Earth and stone bank extending in an arc from NNW-N-E-SE, possibly the remains of a ringfort.

• LH004-111 Penitential station
  Description

  Marked 'St. Brigid's Station' on the 1938-9 'OS 6-inch' map. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 17 November 2011

• LH004-112 Penitential station
  Description

  Marked as 'St. Brigid's Station' on the 1938-9 OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 18 November 2011

• LH004-119 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 Marked as 'fort' on 1835 ed. of OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace.

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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_3025 (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.

No address of the register names Monascreebe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Monascreebe · Móin na Scríbe

Area

1,757,842 m² (175.78 ha, 434.37 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymascanlan, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Lower

Electoral division

Ballymascanlan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymascanlan electoral division: 2,272 people in 737 households; 91% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annies, Faughart Lower, Faughart Upper, Raskeagh, Whitemill

Placenames

Monascreebe 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.