Priorstown
Townland in the civil parish of Drumshallon, barony of Ferrard, Co. Louth; in Irish Baile an Phrióra
- Area
- 139.3 ha
- 344 acres
- Land parcels
- 65
- registered freehold, median 5,917 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Priorstown, from 88 m² to 237,676 m² (23.77 ha, 58.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 47 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Priorstown 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 May 2026Conditional
Outline planning permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, vehicular entrance via existing agricultural gateway and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660322
30 Mar 2026Conditional
Permission for a new shed to be used for storage of grain and use existing entrance onto public road and all associated site works
Permission · Louth County Council, 2660158
7 May 2024N/a
Retention & Permission for the following a) retention of milking parlour, dairy, waiting yard, water storage tank and meal bin. b) retention of calf shed. c) retention of extension to existing cubicle shed and associated flow channel and underground slatted slurry storage tank. d) construction of an agricultural shed to include cubicle housing, straw bedded housing, associated underground slatted slurry storage tank and all associated site works
Retention · Louth County Council, 2460257
2 Apr 2024N/a
Retention of a) a milking parlour, dairy, waiting yard, water storage tank and meal bin; b) retention of calf shed; c) retention of extension to existing cubicle shed and associated flow channel and underground slatted slurry storage tank; d) permission for the construction of an agricultural shed to include cubicle housing, straw bedded housing, associated underground slatted slurry storage tank and all associated site works
Retention · Louth County Council, 2460171
19 Apr 2022Conditional
permission/retention for: 1. Retention and completion of existing one and a half storey dwelling house previously granted permission under ref. no. 08/117. 2. Retention of existing right of way access lane from public road to existing dwellings. 3. Proposed relocation of waste water treatment/percolation area. 4. Proposed relocation of detached double garage previously granted under ref. no. 08/117. All above to include associated site works
Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 22307
23 Jul 2021Conditional
Permission for 1. Demolition of existing sunroom to rear of existing dwelling and construction of new single storey extensions to rear and side of existing dwelling. 2. All associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21933
10 May 2021Conditional
Proposed development consisting of dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system an dpercolation area, roadside vehicular entrance and all associated works
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 21545
22 Oct 2020Conditional
Permission for proposed two storey dwelling house with detached garage and landscaping, and the installation of an on-site waste water treatment system and percolation area and associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20867
2 Oct 2020N/a
Permission for a proposed two storey dwelling house with detached garage and landscaping and the installation of an on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area and associated siteworks
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20780
10 Sept 2020Refused
Permission for proposed single storey dwelling house, detached domestic double garage/storage area, onsite well, installation of proprietary waste water treatment system/percolation area, vehicular access to site from public road via existing private right of way together with associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20700
2 Dec 2019Conditional
Retention permission for an existing agricultural vehicular entrance and associated works. *Significant Further Information received on 15/12/2020 which includes information on the retention and completion of works for an existing agricultural vehicular entrance and associated works*
Retention · Louth County Council, 191002
19 Jun 2018Conditional
Permission sought for dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, access lane to site and all associated site works. **SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION RECEIVED 12/09/2018**
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 18470
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackhall Woods 001293
Recorded monuments
- LH022-011 Ecclesiastical site
Description
Local tradition that the walls of a monastery from which the townland took its name (IFC Schools MSS 674, 151) are preserved in the roadside walls. 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 revision: 17 June 2017
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Priorstown.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, 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_3140 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Priorstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Priorstown · Baile an Phrióra
- Area
- 1,393,249 m² (139.32 ha, 344.28 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumshallon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ferrard
- Electoral division
- Termonfeckin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Termonfeckin electoral division: 4,003 people in 1,280 households; 83% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Blackhall, Curstown, Donnellystown, Galroostown, Garrolagh, Kellystown, Kiltallaght, Milltown
- Placenames
- Priorstown 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.