Priest Town

141 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Priest Town, from 7 m² to 186,868 m² (18.69 ha, 46.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 49 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 Priest Town 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.

• 23 Apr 2026N/a

  Retention permission to retain an existing gate between the public lane and the private carriageway to the eastern end of the site and all associated works

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2660231

• 11 Dec 2023Conditional

  The development will consist of the following: 1. Retention of existing single storey extension to rear of existing building. 2. Change of use from credit union to commercial offices with warehouse extension (as ancillary to the proposed commercial use). 3. Proposed new single storey extension to front of existing building. 4. Proposed new single storey extensions to the rear of existing building. 5. Proposed new warehouse extension with mezzanine level to the rear of existing building. 6. Proposed internal alterations along with insertion of new first floor into existing double height space to provide additional offices. 7. Existing septic tank to be decommissioned and proposed new wastewater treatment system and percolation area. 8. Proposed new signage to front of building. 9. Proposed new layout to car parking along with hard & soft landscaping. 10. All associated site development and infrastructure works. *Significant Further Information received on 11/09/2024*

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2360517

• 9 Nov 2023N/a

  Permission for the following: 1. Proposed new single storey extension to front of existing building. 2. Proposed new single storey extensions to the rear of existing building. 3. Proposed new warehouse extension with mezzanine level to the rear of existing building. 4. Proposed internal alterations along with insertion of new first floor into existing double height space to provide additional offices. 5. Existing septic tank to be decommissioned and proposed new wastewater treatment system and percolation area. 6. Proposed new signage to front of building. 7. Proposed new layout to car parking along with hard & soft landscaping. 8. All associated site development and infrastructure works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2360445

• 17 Apr 2023Conditional

  Retention permission for (a) alterations to existing dwelling/attached garage, (b) rear single storey extension to existing dwelling, (c) alteratoins to site boundaries and house position, (d) relocation of site entrance and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23196

• 5 Apr 2023N/a

  Retention permission for (a) alterations to existing dwelling house/attached garage, (b) rear single storey extension to existing dwelling, (c) alterations to site boundaries and house position, (d) relocation of site entrance and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23171

• 27 Jan 2023N/a

  Retention permission for (a) alterations to existing dwelling/attached garage, (b) rear single storey extension to existing dwelling, (c) alterations to site boundaries and house poisition, (d) relocation of site entrance, and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2339

• 16 Mar 2022Refused

  outline permission for a new dwelling house with proprietary waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22200

• 16 Mar 2022Refused

  outline permission sought for a new dwelling house with proprietary waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22202

• 16 Mar 2022Refused

  outline permission sought for a new dwelling house with proprietary waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22203

• 16 Mar 2022Refused

  outline permission sought for a new dwelling house with proprietary waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22204

• 21 Sept 2021Conditional

  Permission for development will consist of the replacement of an existing 10m high support pole carrying associated antennae for an 18 metre high free standing communications structure with its associated antennae, communication dish, ground equipment, fencing and all associated site development works. The development will continue to form part of existing 3G an 4G Broadband Network *Significant Further Information Received on 16/02/2022*

  Permission · Louth County Council, 211174

• 12 Jun 2019Refused

  Retention permission for an existing concrete post and timber panel fence to the eastern boundary of the site and retention permission to retain a section of an existing hedgerow on the site adjoining and sharing its boundary with the public lane.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19455

• 8 May 2019Conditional

  Retention permission for an existing single storey extension to the front/side of existing dwelling house.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19344

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 Priest Town.

Recorded monuments

• LH021-005 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  Situated at the end of a long natural ridge with a stream and valley to its W and consisting of a flat-topped earthen mound (max. diam. at top 15.7m, at base 26.5m, H c. 3-5m) with traces of a wide fosse (Wth 3.7m at base, 6m at rim, D 0.4m) from E to W. The site was subsequently used as a tree-ring and there is evidence of modern scarping of the W face of the motte. A possible bailey (dims c. 21m N-S, c. 40m E-W) at the S is defined by a sharp drop in level and scarping of the W and S sides and by a shallow ditch at the E. The above 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: 17 July 2007

• LH021-006 Enclosure
  Description

  Circular raised area visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP, ALK 52). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 12 July 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Priest Town.

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

Name

Priest Town · Baile an tSagairt

Area

1,554,249 m² (155.42 ha, 384.06 acres)

Civil parish

Mullary, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

Electoral division

Mullary, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mullary electoral division: 1,870 people in 560 households; 95% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bankerstown, Bawntaaffe, Castlelumny, Castletown, Kircock, Longstones, Newtown Monasterboice, Paddock, Rathgory, Roxborough, Stonehouse, Tinure

Placenames

Priest Town 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.