# Plaster, Co. Louth: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Barronstown, barony of Dundalk Upper, Co. Louth; in Irish Plástar.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 912,830 m² (91.28 ha, 225.57 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,482 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Barronstown, https://everytownland.com/louth/parish/barronstown.md
- Barony: Dundalk Upper
- Electoral division: Barronstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Louth, https://everytownland.com/louth.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33662
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 140523
- Centre: latitude 54.009229, longitude -6.477345 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Plaster, from 104 m² to 282,398 m² (28.24 ha, 69.78 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1124831: 282,398 m² (28.24 ha, 69.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1124831.md
- Parcel 1124680: 159,215 m² (15.92 ha, 39.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1124680.md
- Parcel 1124323: 105,614 m² (10.56 ha, 26.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1124323.md
- Parcel 1092919: 98,174 m² (9.82 ha, 24.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1092919.md
- Parcel 1096105: 58,514 m² (5.85 ha, 14.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1096105.md
- Parcel 1094881: 51,564 m² (5.16 ha, 12.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1094881.md
- Parcel 1099510: 48,071 m² (4.81 ha, 11.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1099510.md
- Parcel 1121397: 21,698 m² (2.17 ha, 5.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1121397.md
- Parcel 1093527: 16,119 m² (1.61 ha, 3.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1093527.md
- Parcel 3127120: 8,824 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3127120.md
- Parcel 5470542: 6,073 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5470542.md
- Parcel 5029105: 4,663 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5029105.md
- Parcel 5897192: 4,236 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5897192.md
- Parcel 3463427: 3,898 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3463427.md
- Parcel 3341195: 3,404 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3341195.md
- Parcel 5163533: 3,310 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5163533.md
- Parcel 5137961: 2,883 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5137961.md
- Parcel 1113754: 2,511 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1113754.md
- Parcel 2481390: 2,453 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2481390.md
- Parcel 1096001: 2,393 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1096001.md
- Parcel 2737928: 2,324 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2737928.md
- Parcel 1105795: 2,253 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1105795.md
- Parcel 1098265: 2,225 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1098265.md
- Parcel 1118619: 2,204 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1118619.md
- Parcel 1099973: 2,113 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1099973.md
- Parcel 1123473: 2,098 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1123473.md
- Parcel 2487881: 2,089 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2487881.md
- Parcel 1099752: 2,010 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1099752.md
- Parcel 1099910: 1,446 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1099910.md
- Parcel 1103262: 1,382 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1103262.md
- Parcel 1131900: 1,176 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1131900.md
- Parcel 1095743: 1,111 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1095743.md
- Parcel 1095525: 1,110 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1095525.md
- Parcel 1121568: 954 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1121568.md
- Parcel 2733782: 750 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2733782.md
- Parcel 2764229: 104 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2764229.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

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

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Drumcah, Toprass And Cortial Loughs, site code 001462

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LH006-038001: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH006-038001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH006-038002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH006-038003-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH006-038004-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH006-102----. 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)

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)

- Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception, church/chapel, 1800–1840, Regional interest, registry number 13900607, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LH&regno=13900607. 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.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: 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: 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2926.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/plaster-140523.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/louth/plaster-140523.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/louth/plaster-140523.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Plaster 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)

- Ballinurd: https://everytownland.com/louth/ballinurd.md
- Balrobin: https://everytownland.com/louth/balrobin.md
- Cortial: https://everytownland.com/louth/cortial.md
- Donaghmore: https://everytownland.com/louth/donaghmore.md
- Glebe Bog: https://everytownland.com/louth/glebe-bog.md
- Kilcurly: https://everytownland.com/louth/kilcurly.md
- Milltown Bog: https://everytownland.com/louth/milltown-bog.md
- Rathmore: https://everytownland.com/louth/rathmore.md
- Tankardsrock: https://everytownland.com/louth/tankardsrock.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.

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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.

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