# Mooremount, Co. Louth: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Dromin, barony of Ardee, Co. Louth; in Irish Baile Ardach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,401,116 m² (140.11 ha, 346.22 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,949 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 12 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Dromin, https://everytownland.com/louth/parish/dromin.md - Barony: Ardee - Electoral division: Dromin, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 679 people lived in 218 households in the Dromin electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Louth, https://everytownland.com/louth.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33542 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 140442 - Centre: latitude 53.838706, longitude -6.422085 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mooremount, from 65 m² to 220,567 m² (22.06 ha, 54.5 acres); 33 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1091090: 220,567 m² (22.06 ha, 54.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1091090.md - Parcel 4958568: 164,041 m² (16.4 ha, 40.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4958568.md - Parcel 1091110: 130,161 m² (13.02 ha, 32.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1091110.md - Parcel 4958300: 117,515 m² (11.75 ha, 29.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4958300.md - Parcel 1113047: 90,155 m² (9.02 ha, 22.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1113047.md - Parcel 4942037: 77,615 m² (7.76 ha, 19.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4942037.md - Parcel 1106604: 68,346 m² (6.83 ha, 16.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1106604.md - Parcel 5872552: 67,421 m² (6.74 ha, 16.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5872552.md - Parcel 2680011: 39,152 m² (3.92 ha, 9.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2680011.md - Parcel 1137897: 28,398 m² (2.84 ha, 7.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1137897.md - Parcel 1135788: 28,258 m² (2.83 ha, 6.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1135788.md - Parcel 2680049: 27,368 m² (2.74 ha, 6.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2680049.md - Parcel 1117034: 17,685 m² (1.77 ha, 4.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1117034.md - Parcel 1131461: 15,804 m² (1.58 ha, 3.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1131461.md - Parcel 1106589: 15,164 m² (1.52 ha, 3.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1106589.md - Parcel 1129568: 13,220 m² (1.32 ha, 3.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1129568.md - Parcel 1134465: 12,545 m² (1.25 ha, 3.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1134465.md - Parcel 1125520: 11,319 m² (1.13 ha, 2.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1125520.md - Parcel 6184299: 9,289 m² (0.93 ha, 2.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6184299.md - Parcel 1092968: 9,198 m² (0.92 ha, 2.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1092968.md - Parcel 1092401: 7,615 m² (0.76 ha, 1.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1092401.md - Parcel 4754387: 7,368 m² (0.74 ha, 1.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4754387.md - Parcel 2680004: 6,921 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2680004.md - Parcel 1092691: 6,250 m² (0.63 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1092691.md - Parcel 4754388: 5,004 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4754388.md - Parcel 1125857: 4,895 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1125857.md - Parcel 2954241: 4,253 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2954241.md - Parcel 1123643: 3,477 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1123643.md - Parcel 4967613: 3,407 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4967613.md - Parcel 1093314: 3,407 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1093314.md - Parcel 4683085: 3,176 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4683085.md - Parcel 4967486: 3,160 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4967486.md - Parcel 1134344: 2,528 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1134344.md - Parcel 1099537: 2,456 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1099537.md - Parcel 5183000: 2,246 m² (0.22 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5183000.md - Parcel 1136915: 2,149 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1136915.md - Parcel 5134307: 2,101 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5134307.md - Parcel 1128069: 1,844 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1128069.md - Parcel 1097130: 1,827 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1097130.md - Parcel 5134303: 1,577 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5134303.md - Parcel 1137290: 1,475 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1137290.md - Parcel 2680067: 1,438 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2680067.md - Parcel 4968401: 1,382 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4968401.md - Parcel 1094696: 899 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1094696.md - Parcel 1091433: 702 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1091433.md - Parcel 5397297: 335 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5397297.md - Parcel 5134321: 330 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5134321.md - Parcel 4967641: 285 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4967641.md - Parcel 6184324: 87 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6184324.md - Parcel 5183021: 65 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5183021.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 12 applications, newest first. - 17 Apr 2025, Louth County Council 2560223: Conditional. Permission. 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*. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560223/0 - 9 Sept 2024, Louth County Council 2460523: Conditional. Permission consequent, 2 homes. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460523/0 - 21 Mar 2023, Louth County Council 2360047: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360047/0 - 1 Jul 2021, Louth County Council 21816: N/a. Outline permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/21816/0 - 1 Jul 2021, Louth County Council 21817: Conditional. Outline permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/21817/0 - 24 May 2021, Louth County Council 21628: N/a. Outline permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/21628/0 - 24 May 2021, Louth County Council 21629: N/a. Outline permission, 2 homes. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/21629/0 - 22 Oct 2020, Louth County Council 20863: N/a. Permission. Permission for development that will consist of proposed dry agricultural store and all associated works in existing farm yard. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/20863/0 - 4 Jun 2020, Louth County Council 20385: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/20385/0 - 17 Dec 2019, Louth County Council 191067: N/a. Permission. Permission sought for agricultural grain store, access lane to site and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/191067/0 - 13 Aug 2019, Louth County Council 19656: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission to install a new septic tank and percolation area to serve existing dwelling, decommission existing septic tank and all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/19656/0 - 20 Mar 2017, Louth County Council 17191: N/a. Permission. Permission for development to consist of a new agricultural entrance and for all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/17191/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Mooremount. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mooremount. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - House, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 13901831, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LH®no=13901831. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Mooremount, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/louth/mooremount.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/louth/mooremount.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/louth/mooremount.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Mooremount with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth: https://everytownland.com/louth.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballymageragh: https://everytownland.com/louth/ballymageragh.md - Cangy: https://everytownland.com/louth/cangy.md - Dromin: https://everytownland.com/louth/dromin.md - Knockatober: https://everytownland.com/louth/knockatober.md - Knockdinnin: https://everytownland.com/louth/knockdinnin.md - Lawlesstown: https://everytownland.com/louth/lawlesstown.md - Ravel: https://everytownland.com/louth/ravel.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/louth/mooremount - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/louth/mooremount