Muchgrange

116 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Muchgrange, from 24 m² to 69,292 m² (6.93 ha, 17.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Muchgrange 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 Jun 2025Conditional

  Permission is sought for the installation of an on site effluent treatment system and associated site works. Retention Permission is also being sought for the construction of a storage and workshop building.

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2560372

• 25 May 2025N/a

  Retention permission is sought for construction and completion of building works for a storage building and workshop including all site development works and an on-site effluent treatment system.

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2560298

• 19 Nov 2024N/a

  Retention permission is sought for construction and completion of building works for a storage building and workshop including all site development works and an on-site effluent treatment system

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2460711

• 19 Jun 2024Refused

  Permission for one dwelling house, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2460336

• 3 Jun 2023Conditional

  Planning permission is sought for conversion of existing outhouses to home office, gym, and studio, and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360139

• 10 May 2023Conditional

  Retention permission for (a) a domestic store; (b) a domestic outbuilding comprising of a games room, gym and home office and (c) associated site development works

  Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 23234

• 27 Apr 2023N/a

  Planning permission is sought for conversion of existing outhouses to home office, gym, and studio, and associated site works at Muchgrange, Greenore, Co. Louth. A91 DK10

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360080

• 7 Oct 2022Refused

  Permission for the construction of a new dwelling, new septic tank and percolation area and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22798

• 7 Dec 2020Conditional

  Permission for one agricultural store to accommodate milk pasteurisation unit and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 201056

• 29 May 2020Conditional

  Permission for development consisting of the installation of a grid connected photovoltaic panel system fitted to the roofs of existing grain store buildings

  Permission · Louth County Council, 20371

• 28 Nov 2019N/a

  EXTENSION OF DURATION OF 15/59: Permission consequent on grant of outline planning permission and planning permission for development to consist of new dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works (outline planning permission ref 145) and planning permission for a new domestic garage and all associated site works

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19986

• 15 Apr 2019Conditional

  Permission for extension and alterations to existing dwelling house and all associated site works. *Significant Further Information Received on 24/06/2019 includes for retention permission for an extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house and a detached domestic garage*

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19283

• 25 Jul 2018Conditional

  The development will consist of: Permission to erect a single storey detached domestic garage and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18588

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Carlingford Shore SAC 002306
• Special Protection Area: Carlingford Lough SPA 004078
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Carlingford Lough 000452

Recorded monuments

• LH009-002001 Church
  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 Foundations of rectangular structure (max. dims. 11m by 5m), situated on top of slight flat-topped mound. 'St James' Well' (LH009-002002-) to NW of church site. (CLAJ 1929, 68; CLAJ 1941, 12)

• LH009-002002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked 'St. James's Well' on the 1835 and 1939 'OS 6-inch' maps. It is a rectangular pool lined with large roughly dressed blocks, four or five stones high in some places and without mortar (ASI field notes, 1966). Patron day was held here at start of twentieth century. Various references to traditions and legends associated with it in the Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts (657-9), including one which notes that a woman with a disease tied a stone from the well around her neck and as the stone grew bigger she was cured of her disease (IFC Schools MSS 659, 16-17). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 13 March 2012

• LH009-002003 Graveyard
  Description

  Roughly square shaped graveyard marked 'Old Burying Ground' on 1835 'OS 6-inch' map (map dims. L c. 35m; Wth c. 34m) with church remains (LH009-002001-) in centre. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 13 March 2012

• LH009-018 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB90.BZ.13) shows cropmark of an incomplete curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse; one of three adjacent enclosures (see also LH009-019---- and LH009-020----). It is plough-levelled. First recorded as a positive cropmark in July 1990. It is located in low-lying tillage overlooking Carlingford Lough and the Cooley Mountains. The field falls away to the NE. There is no visible trace. Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland and Dr Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 May 2010

• LH009-019 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB90.BZ.13) shows cropmark of an incomplete curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse. This is one of three adjacent enclosures. It is plough-levelled. First recorded as a positive cropmark in July 1990. It is located in low-lying tillage overlooking Carlingford Lough and the Cooley Mountains. The field falls away to the NE. There is no visible trace. Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland and Dr Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 May 2010

• LH009-020 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB90.BZ.13) shows cropmark of an incomplete oval enclosure defined by two fosses; one of three adjacent enclosures. It is plough-levelled. First recorded as a positive cropmark in July 1990. It is located in low-lying tillage overlooking Carlingford Lough and the Cooley Mountains. The field falls away to the NE. There is no visible trace. Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland and Dr Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 26 May 2010

Architectural heritage

• Elderwood House, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1880, no longer in use. Rectangular-plan, projecting flat-roofed porch to west, three-bay two-storey in line extension to south, two-storey flat-roofed return to east c. 1950. Pitched slate roofs, crested ridge tiles, roll-top clay ridge tiles to south extension, red brick corbelled chimneystacks, painted timber scalloped bargeboards to gables, moulded uPVC gutters to overhanging eaves, uPVC downpipe. Unpainted ruled-and-lined smooth rendered walling, raised block-and-start quoins to west elevation. Square-headed window opening, limestone sills, painted timber two-over-two sliding sash windows with horns, painted timber six-pane fixed-light windows to ground floor south extension, timber casement windows to return. Smooth rendered porch with moulded stone cornice, square-headed door opening, painted timber door with twelve moulded panels and diamond-paned glazed panel, glassless overlight; square-headed door opening to south extension, painted timber double doors with moulded bottom panels and glazed top panels with stained glass margin lights, patterned stained glass overlight, painted timber double doors with timber panelled glazing, stained glass panels; square-headed door opening to return, painted timber door with moulded bottom panels and stained glazed top panels. Set facing road to west, garden to east, corrugated-iron quonset hut to east.

• Catholic Church of the Star of the Sea, church/chapel, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Gothic Revival Roman Catholic church, dated 1865. Eight-bay side elevation to nave, lean-to side aisles to north and south, three-stage tower with broached ashlar spire to north-west, projecting gable-fronted entrance porch and three-bay single-storey vestry to south aisle. Pitched slate roofs, limestone verge coping with gabled stops, carved limestone crosses to gables, moulded cast-iron gutters on limestone corbels to overhanging eaves, ashlar limestone chimneystack to vestry. Snecked granite walling with battered plinth, ashlar limestone quoins, angle buttresses with limestone caps and quoins. Carved limestone date plaque to north elevation tower "AD 1865". Pointed arch lancet window openings, paired to west elevation and grouped in three to east elevation, some with limestone hood mouldings with block stops, splayed ashlar limestone surrounds with block-and-start jambs, limestone plate tracery to east ends side aisles, leaded stained glass windows to east and west, leaded stained glass to aisles, lattice windows to vestry; cinquefoil window openings to clerestory, limestone ashlar surrounds, lattice windows; pointed arch openings to tower, limestone hood mouldings, limestone plate tracery, timber louvres. Pointed arch west door opening, stepped limestone surround with block-and-start jambs, limestone hood moulding with block stops, painted timber vertically-sheeted double doors, granite steps; pointed arch door openings to south porch, north elevation tower and vestry, hood mouldings, splayed limestone surrounds with block-and-start jambs, painted timber vertically-sheeted doors. Triple-aisled interior renovated, 2000, with addition of timber-and-glazed internal entrance porch to west, six-bay pointed arch nave arcade on cylindrical limestone piers with octagonal capitals, scissor-truss timber roof, marble and stucco altar and reredos to east, choir to west carried on triple arcade with pink granite supporting columns and red marble colonnettes to balustrade, tiled floor, timber pews. Set back from road, surrounded by extensive carparking area, bounded to west by squared-and-snecked stone walling with soldier coping, dressed ashlar square piers; burial ground to east with variety of cut stone grave markers c. 1970-2005, bounded by random rubble stone wall, soldier coping, ashlar limestone gate piers to west.

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 Muchgrange, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3275 (ZIP).

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

Name

Muchgrange · An Ghráinseach Mhór

Area

1,286,523 m² (128.65 ha, 317.91 acres)

Civil parish

Carlingford, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Lower

Electoral division

Greenore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,250 people lived in 430 households in the Greenore electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballagan, Ballynamony (Murphy), Ballytrasna, Greenore, Millgrange, Mullabane

Placenames

Muchgrange 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.