Plaster

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Plaster, from 104 m² to 282,398 m² (28.24 ha, 69.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Plaster 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Plaster in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Drumcah, Toprass And Cortial Loughs 001462

Recorded monuments

• LH006-038001 Ringfort - rath
  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 Situated on top of an outcrop hillock. Circular area (int. diam. c. 25m) enclosed by two banks with intervening and external fosses. Inner bank (Wth 5m, H 0.3m internally, 2m externally) is best preserved on E. Intervening fosse (Wth 6.5m, D 1.8m) visible only from NE-E-ESE. Outer bank (Wth 5.5m, H 1.8m internally, 2m externally) is visible from NE-E-ESE and SSE-S-SSW. A modern lane cuts across the outer bank on the SE, and runs around the site of the fosse from S-SSW. The outer fosse (Wth 4.5m, D 0.6m) is only visible on the E. No visible ancient entrance. Possible circular hut site (LH006-038003-) (diam. 8.3m) at centre of interior, and traces of rectangular structure (LH006-038004-) adjoining inner face of inner bank at E. Possible souterrain (LH006-038002-) in interior.

• LH006-038002 Souterrain
  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 Depression in ringfort (LH006-038001-) may represent collapsed souterrain. (CLAJ 1961, 10)

• LH006-038003 Hut site
  Description

  Possible circular hut site (diam. 8.3m) at centre of interior of ringfort (LH006-038001-). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 23 November 2011

• LH006-038004 Hut site
  Description

  Traces of rectangular structure adjoining inner face of inner bank at E of ringfort (LH006-038001-). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 23 November 2011

• LH006-102 Burial ground
  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 Local tradition of graveyard in flat field beside marsh. (CLAJ 1930, 176)

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception, church/chapel, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Roman Catholic church, built c. 1820. Cruciform-plan, flat-roofed sacristy and extensions to north, three-stage stone tower, ashlar crenellations and pinnacles to west c. 1880, extension to east transept, gable-fronted porch to east. Pitched slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, cut stone cross finials to north and south gables, half-round uPVC gutters. Painted roughcast-rendered walling, painted smooth rendered plinth, smooth rendered quoins and forming pediment to porch; squared-and-snecked stone walling to tower, dressed limestone quoins, ashlar limestone crenellated parapet supported on stone corbels, pinnacles to corners. Pointed arch window openings, painted smooth rendered surrounds, painted stone sills, stained glass leaded light windows; square-headed window openings to sacristy and extensions; pointed arch window openings to tower, dressed block-and-start limestone surrounds, leaded diamond-lattice windows; paired pointed arch openings to third stage, painted timber louvred shutters. Square-headed door openings, smooth rendered surrounds, timber horizontally-sheeted double doors. Interior with painted smooth rendered walling, altar located on stepped platform at crossing, painted timber galleries to south, east and west, side chapel to east. Corner-sited church, bounded by painted smooth- and roughcast rendered walling, square-profile piers, gabled caps, wrought-iron gates, foundry stamp "CRAWFORD DUNDALK 1843". Gates to north between church and tree-lined avenue to graveyard.

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 10 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2926 (ZIP).

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

Name

Plaster · Plástar

Area

912,830 m² (91.28 ha, 225.57 acres)

Civil parish

Barronstown, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Barronstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Barronstown electoral division: 752 people in 255 households; 92% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinurd, Balrobin, Cortial, Donaghmore, Glebe Bog, Kilcurly, Milltown Bog, Rathmore, Tankardsrock

Placenames

Plaster 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.