Parsonstown

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Parsonstown, from 994 m² to 165,007 m² (16.5 ha, 40.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Parsonstown 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.

• 13 Jul 2026Refused

  Permission for a proposed dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and polishing filter percolation area, new vehicular entrance onto public road and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660464

• 19 Aug 2024Refused

  Planning permission for a proposed dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and polishing filter percolation area, new vehicular entrance onto public road and all associated site development works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2460471

• 20 Dec 2023Conditional

  Planning permission for proposed extensions to existing dwelling house and all associated site development works *SFI recieved on 11/7/24 includes Permission for upgrading/extension of existing percolation area and proposed surface water BRE soakaways**

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360541

• 20 Mar 2023Refused

  Permission for a proposed dwelling house, waste water treatment system and polishing filter percolation area, new vehicular entrance onto public road and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23130

• 9 Jun 2022Refused

  Permission for proposed dwelling house, attached domestic garage, waste water treatment system and polishing filter percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 22465

• 6 Apr 2021Conditional

  Development consisting of a proposed dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and polishing filter percolation area, new vehicular entrance onto public road and all associated site development works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 21365

• 26 Aug 2019Conditional

  EXTENSION OF DURATION OF 15/19: Permission for a two storey dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, on site well, installation of on site waste water treatment system and associated site works.**Significant Further Information was received 26/05/15.**

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19684

• 26 Jun 2017Conditional

  Permission for development to construct proposed new dwelling house, detached domestic garage, site entrance, drive -way and to install proposed new waste water treatment system and percolation area together with all associated siteworks.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 17492

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 Parsonstown.

Recorded monuments

• LH019-009001 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 Built of uncoursed rubble, greywacke and limestone, it has an undivided nave and chancel (max. dims. 10.35m by 4.5m) with opposing doorways in the W end of the N and S walls and one window in each of the four walls. The doorways have pointed two-centred arches of limestone which are punch-dressed and chamfered; both have bolt holes and stop-chamfers. The W gable has the remains of a double bellcote and an almost central single-light window constructed of punch-dressed limestone. There is a double-light ogee-headed window in the E end of the S wall and a single one in the N wall opposite. They are constructed of punch-dressed limestone, with glazing bar holes and grooves. There is a blocked ope in the centre of the S wall, indicated by a slightly rounded arch of greywacke, which must be the remains of another window. The E window is destroyed except for part of the sill. It had a double-light window of limestone and was almost certainly like the one in the S wall. At the E end of the S wall are the remains of a small two-tiered recess and inside the S doorway to the E side is another one, probably to hold a holy water stoup. There are vertical breaks in the N and S walls opposite each other just E of the doorways but they are too close to the W end of the church to be the remains of a wooden rood screen. This building is a well preserved example of a late medieval parish church, possibly built in 1528. (CLAJ 1944, 291)

• LH019-009002 Graveyard
  Description

  Sub-triangular shaped enclosure (map dims. max. 33m E-W; 26m N-S) around medieval church remains (LH019-009001-), most likely contains burials although no graveslabs recorded. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 12 July 2012

• LH019-036 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a gentle E-facing slope. The cropmark of an oval enclosure (dims c. 30m E-W; c. 20m N-S) defined by a continuous fosse (Wth c. 2-4m) is visible only on Google Earth (21/07/2021). It is also faintly visible on Digital Globe (2011-13), and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (21/07/2021) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 22 October 2021

• LH019-037001 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape. The cropmarks of two small features are visible only on Google Earth (21/07/2021). This is a circular area (int. diam. c. 8m) defined by a single continuous fosse. The ring-ditch (LH019-037002-) is c. 8m to the SSE. The features were first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (21/07/2021) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 22 October 2021

• LH019-037002 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape. The cropmarks of two small features are visible only on Google Earth (21/07/2021). This is an indistinct circular area (int. diam. c. 4m) defined by a single continuous fosse (ext. diam. c. 9m). The ring-ditch (LH019-037001-) is c. 8m to the NNW. The features were first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (21/07/2021) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 22 October 2021

• LH019-040 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a rise in a low-lying landscape with a small SW-NE stream c. 50m to the NW. The cropmark of a circular feature (diam. c. 23m N-S; c. 21m E-W) defined by a fosse is visible only on an Aerial Premium image (2013-18). An outer fosse c. 4-6m distant is visible W-N-E and this fosse is attached to the inner fosse at either end, forming a small annexe. The cropmarks of two ditches extend E (L c. 70m) and ESE (L c. 50m) from the enclosure at E where there might be an entrance, diverging as they proceed rather like an avenue. The monument was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced views from Aerial Premium (2013-18) _1 general _2 close-up Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 January 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Parsonstown.

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

Name

Parsonstown · Baile an Phearsúin

Area

1,040,669 m² (104.07 ha, 257.15 acres)

Civil parish

Parsonstown, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

Electoral division

Clogher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clogher electoral division: 3,446 people in 1,141 households; 80% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardbolies, Cruisetown, Killally, Labanstown, Reynoldstown

Placenames

Parsonstown 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.