Mooremount

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mooremount, from 65 m² to 220,567 m² (22.06 ha, 54.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Mooremount 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.

• 17 Apr 2025Conditional

  The development will consist of the construction of a solar PV development and Battery Energy Storage System facility (‘BESS’) on a ca. 167ha site consisting of: Solar PV panels laid out in arrays across the Site on ground mounted frames, with string inverters attached to selected ground mounted frames; 12 No. transformer units; The battery energy storage compound consisting of 368 No. BESS modules; 1 No. transformer unit; 8 No. Power Electronic Compact Twin Skids; 1 No. Control Unit (ca. 12m2); 2m high landscaping berm and perimeter security fencing (2.4m high); Electrical and communications cabling within private lands and within the L2254, R170 and R211/R132 public roads; Pole-mounted security cameras; Perimeter security fencing (2m high) and security gates; Upgrade of 3 No. existing Site entrances; Development of 2 No. new Site entrances; 3 No. temporary construction compounds; 3 No. clear span bridges; Internal access tracks; and, All associated ancillary development, landscaping and reinstatement works. *Significant Further Information Received on 26/11/2025*

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2560223

• 9 Sept 2024Conditional

  Permission consequent on the grant of outline permission 21/817 for a dwelling house, a detached domestic garage, a waste water treatment system and all associated siteworks

  Permission consequent, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2460523

• 21 Mar 2023Conditional

  Permission for Retention for Development for the following: 1) Internal alterations to accommodate a new kitchen, utility & bathroom and associated services, 2) Replacement of external and internal timber doors, 3) New boundary treatments, 4) Provision of a new wastewater treatment unit, 5) Associated site works. This is a Protected Structure listed as RPS No. LHS018-004

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360047

• 1 Jul 2021N/a

  Outline permission sought for dwelling house, detached domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, access to site via altered family entrance gate and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21816

• 1 Jul 2021Conditional

  Outline permission sought for dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, access to site via altered family entrance gate and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21817

• 24 May 2021N/a

  Outline permission sought for dwelling house, detached domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, access to site via altered family entrance gate and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21628

• 24 May 2021N/a

  Outline permission sought for dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, access to site via altered family entrance gate and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 21629

• 22 Oct 2020N/a

  Permission for development that will consist of proposed dry agricultural store and all associated works in existing farm yard

  Permission · Louth County Council, 20863

• 4 Jun 2020Conditional

  Permission for development that will consist of the demolition of a single storey extension to the west and south elevations of the existing dwelling, demolition of a dormer window on the east roof and replacing with 2 no. rooflights, the rearrangement of floor plans, all associated elevation changes and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20385

• 17 Dec 2019N/a

  Permission sought for agricultural grain store, access lane to site and all associated site works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 191067

• 13 Aug 2019Conditional

  Permission to install a new septic tank and percolation area to serve existing dwelling, decommission existing septic tank and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19656

• 20 Mar 2017N/a

  Permission for development to consist of a new agricultural entrance and for all associated site works.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 17191

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 Mooremount.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mooremount.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1800. Rectangular-plan, entrance porch to west, corrugated-iron roofed addition to north. Pitched thatched roof, vinyl ridge, painted smooth render chimneystacks with red brick corbels. Lime-washed roughcast-rendered walling, smooth render to porch. Square-headed window openings, painted reveals, painted stone sills, painted timber two-over-two sliding sash windows to south of west elevation, three-over-three to north of west elevation. Square-headed door opening to porch, timber vertically-sheeted door with cast-iron hinges. House fronts onto street, located on outskirts of Dromin village.

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 20 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

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

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

Name

Mooremount · Baile Ardach

Area

1,401,116 m² (140.11 ha, 346.22 acres)

Civil parish

Dromin, and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Dromin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dromin electoral division: 679 people in 218 households; 93% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymageragh, Cangy, Dromin, Knockatober, Knockdinnin, Lawlesstown, Ravel

Placenames

Mooremount 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.