# Navan, Co. Louth: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballymascanlan, barony of Dundalk Lower, Co. Louth; in Irish Nabhainn. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 570,269 m² (57.03 ha, 140.92 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,647 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): C5 Tourism and Leisure, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballymascanlan, https://everytownland.com/louth/parish/ballymascanlan.md - Barony: Dundalk Lower - Electoral division: Ballymascanlan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,272 people lived in 737 households in the Ballymascanlan electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Louth, https://everytownland.com/louth.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33661 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 140473 - Centre: latitude 54.031363, longitude -6.380113 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Navan, from 61 m² to 466,640 m² (46.66 ha, 115.31 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1131471: 466,640 m² (46.66 ha, 115.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1131471.md - Parcel 2480156: 37,169 m² (3.72 ha, 9.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2480156.md - Parcel 2644995: 33,184 m² (3.32 ha, 8.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2644995.md - Parcel 4615716: 5,627 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4615716.md - Parcel 1117009: 5,327 m² (0.53 ha, 1.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1117009.md - Parcel 1094466: 4,473 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1094466.md - Parcel 2480155: 3,653 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2480155.md - Parcel 1091222: 2,751 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1091222.md - Parcel 1115883: 2,542 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1115883.md - Parcel 1096827: 2,319 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1096827.md - Parcel 1119338: 2,170 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1119338.md - Parcel 1107601: 2,015 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1107601.md - Parcel 4681442: 1,711 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4681442.md - Parcel 4681443: 493 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4681443.md - Parcel 2644994: 181 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2644994.md - Parcel 4681445: 61 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4681445.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - C5 Tourism and Leisure (Tourism and related): Louth County Development Plan, Louth; 15 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.louthcoco.ie/en/publications/development-plans/louth-county-development-plan-2021-2027/ - O1 Strategic Reserve (Strategic reserve, White land): Louth County Development Plan, Louth; 7 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.louthcoco.ie/en/publications/development-plans/louth-county-development-plan-2021-2027/ ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Navan in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Navan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LH004-072: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH004-072----. 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 Lintels of a souterrain displaced during ploughing. No futher details. (NMI file) - LH004-131: Habitation site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH004-131----. Discovered prior to road construction (Excavation Licence No. 93E0168). Excavations uncovered evidence for Early Bronze Age activity which appeared to be habitational rather than ritual. Bronze Age "Food Vessel" pottery and worked flint were found in association with stakeholes and charcoal spreads. (Opie 1994, 58) Reference: Opie, H. 1994 Navan. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1993: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 58, (No. 168). Bray. Wordwell. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 18 November 2011 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Navan. ## 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 Navan, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3063, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3063.zip (ZIP). - 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/navan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/louth/navan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/louth/navan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Navan 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) - Aghaboys: https://everytownland.com/louth/aghaboys.md - Dowdallshill: https://everytownland.com/louth/dowdallshill.md - Faughart Lower: https://everytownland.com/louth/faughart-lower.md - Redcow: https://everytownland.com/louth/redcow.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/navan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/louth/navan