Rampark

288 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rampark, from 8 m² to 177,674 m² (17.77 ha, 43.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Rampark 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.

• 15 Sept 2026N/a

  Retention permission for 3 No. precast concrete dugouts to side of existing sports fields and all associated site development works

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2660632

• 24 Jul 2026Conditional

  Permission for alterations and modifications to a dwelling house previously approved planning permission under planning ref. no. 22938 and associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660499

• 16 Jul 2026N/a

  Permission for alterations and modifications to a dwelling house previously approved planning permission under planning ref. no. 22938 and associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660470

• 3 Jul 2026Conditional

  Retention permission for detached domestic garage, roof lights to the rear of existing sun room and attic storage area of the existing dwelling house, site layout changes including revised site boundaries and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2688

• 17 Dec 2025Conditional

  Retention permission for an unauthorised development consisting of alterations to existing wall & piers & construction of new wall & piers & permission for development for completion of works at entrance to existing house

  Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2560824

• 22 Oct 2025Conditional

  Planning permission is sought for the retention of an as built glass porch extension to the front of an existing dwelling

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560677

• 28 May 2025Conditional

  Retention permission for the following: 1. Enclosed porch to front elevation, 2. Domestic garage to side of existing dwellinghouse and all associated site development works.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560309

• 18 Dec 2024Conditional

  Permission for new waste water treatment system to serve existing dwelling house, amendments to site boundaries previously granted permission under planning Ref. No. 14/244 and all Associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460797

• 2 Dec 2024N/a

  Permission for new waste water treatment system to serve existing dwelling house, amendments to site boundaries previously granted permission under planning Ref. No. 14/244 and all associated site development works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2460753

• 29 Oct 2024Conditional

  Outline planning permission for development to consist of a single dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area on a site of a derelict shed to be removed including all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460661

• 16 Oct 2024N/a

  Outline planning permission for development to consist of a single dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area on a site of a derelict shed to be removed including all associated site works

  Outline permission · Louth County Council, 2460629

• 14 Aug 2024Conditional

  Retention permission for a dwelling house, domestic garage and all associated site development works *Significant Further Information received on 06/11/2024 - permission is being sought for the decommissioning of the existing percolation area and the installation of a wastewater treatment system and percolation area.*

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2460463

• 9 Jul 2024Conditional

  Permission for development for a 1.5 storey detached house, install a waste water treatment system with percolation area & associated site works at Rampark, Jenkinstown, Co. Louth *Significant Further Information received on 20/05/2025 - Connection to public water supply & amended site entrance details*

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460383

• 7 May 2024Conditional

  Permission for a change of house type and detached domestic garage as previously granted under planning reference 22970 and all associated site development works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2460255

• 22 Apr 2024N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF AN EXISTING VERNACULAR DWELLING, THE INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460217

• 19 Jan 2024Conditional

  Permission to erect a 21 metre high monopole telecommunications support structure together with floodlights, antennae, dishes and associated telecommunications equipment, proposed retaining wall and the removal of an existing 18m high floodlight pole

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2460032

• 1 Oct 2023Conditional

  Permission for development to (1) construct a single storey extension to the rear of the existing house (2) remove an existing roof window & replace with new roof window in new location to the rear of the existing house (3) replace an existing window with a larger window to the east side of the existing house & all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360380

• 6 Sept 2023Conditional

  Permission for elevational changes and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360335

• 7 Jun 2023Refused

  Outline permission sought for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and associated site development works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23272

• 27 Feb 2023Conditional

  Permission to construct new building for use as gym and storage of equipment to rear of existing sports hall/community centre and all associated site works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2397

• 11 Jan 2023Conditional

  Retention permission for a single storey steel shed to the west side of the house and associated minor landscaping works to better integrate the shed within the site. The shed has a foot print of 25sqm to be used for storage ancillary to the use of the house

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 234

• 14 Dec 2022Conditional

  Permission for a two storey detached dwelling, a storey and a half detached domestic garage, new vehicular entrance to site, a proposed waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site development works **Significant further information received on 3.7.23**

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 22970

• 12 Dec 2022Conditional

  Permission to erect floodlighting to existing football pitch no. 2, consisting of 4 no. 16m high steel columns with 2 no. floodlights per column and all associated site development works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 22959

• 2 Dec 2022Conditional

  Permission to construct a two storey detached dwelling, a single storey detached domestic garage, new vehicular entrance to site, a proposed waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site development works and services **Significant further information received on 3.7.23**

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 22938

• 24 Nov 2022Refused

  Permission for the construction of 8 detached dwelling houses and waste water treatment systems all of which were partially constructed as part of planning permission Ref. No. 06/881 and including all associated site development works. This application is accommpanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) Stage 2 Appropriate Assessment

  Permission, 8 homes · Louth County Council, 22911

The 25 most recent of 73 applications.

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Dundalk Bay SAC 000455
• Special Protection Area: Dundalk Bay SPA 004026
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dundalk Bay 000455

Recorded monuments

• LH008-070001 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 Circular area (int. diam. c. 21m) enclosed by two widely spaced earth and stone banks with traces of external fosse. Inner bank (Wth 2.7m, H 0.2m internally, 0.3m externally) cut through and removed by a modern wall in the SE quadrant. The intervening space between the banks varies (Wth 8.7-12m). The outer bank (Wth 4m, H 0.5m internally, 1m externally) and outer fosse (Wth 2.5m, D 0.2m) survive best in the N quadrant. Possible souterrain (LH008-070002-) in interior of site. This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/2002).

• LH008-070002 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 Local tradition of a 'cave' in ringfort (LH008-070001-). (IFC Schools MSS 660, 109-10, 282) This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/2002).

• LH008-108 Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
  Description

  Marked 'Clogh Patrick' on the 1835 and the 1938-9 ed. of the 'OS 6-inch' maps. A large boulder with natural grooves in it (SMR file, 1967). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 8 March 2012

• LH008-113 Burial ground
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• LH008-121 Burial ground
  Description

  Discovered during the excavation of foundations for a house in 2004 (Excavation Licence No. 04E1559). Field once referred to as 'Pairc na Reilige'. Seven lintel graves, at least three of which had been reopened for secondary interments were uncovered. A further six probable lintel graves were visible in section faces, these were left in situ. A crouched female inhumation and a badly truncated extended inhumation were found 10m away from the concentration of lintel graves. A second group of Early Christian burials were revealed to the west of the house alongside a flat cemetery (LH008-122----). These comprised of one adult and nine juveniles in simple pit graves. (Campbell 2007, 268-9) Reference: Campbell K. 2007 Rampark Early Christian cemetery, souterrains; Bronze Age cremations. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2004: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 268-9 (No. 1122). Bray. Wordwell Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 13 March 2012

Architectural heritage

• House, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1840. Rectangular-plan. extended to west c. 1900, gable-fronted single-storey porch to north, lean-to extension to north. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, rendered corbelled chimneystacks, stone verge coping, rendered stone projecting eaves course, moulded cast-iron gutters, cast-iron hoppers and downpipes; painted stone moulded verge coping to porch gable with ball finial. Painted roughcast rendered walling with smooth rendered plinth and quoins. Square-headed window openings, slightly projecting reveals, painted stone sills, painted timber sliding sash windows with and without horns, painted timber Wyatt windows flanking door opening to north, uPVC windows to west gable. Entrance porch with engaged painted stone ionic columns and arched bedded pediment, square-headed door opening with timber panelled door and plain glazed overlight. Painted roughcast boundary wall to north, smooth rendered plinth and flat coping, cylindrical gate piers with four-gabled cap stones and finials, wrought-iron gate. Set back from road overlooking Dundalk bay to south, farmyard to west with range of whitewashed rubble stone structures accessed through wrought-iron gates.

• Rampark Farmhouse, house, 1725–1775 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey thatched house, built c. 1750. Rectangular-plan, single-storey extension to east and return to rear (south), gable-fronted porch to centre of main (north) elevation. Thatched straw roof to main house, raised ridge fixed down by scallops, overhanging straw eaves, raised gable ends, painted smooth rendered stone coping, painted smooth rendered flat-capped chimneystacks on roof ridge; pitched slate roof to extensions, clay ridge tiles, unpainted stone or brick raised verge stones to gables, painted timber fascias, half-round gutters; roll moulded ridge tiles an finial to porch, painted timber scalloped bargeboards. Painted smooth rendered walling, painted roughcast render to east, painted slightly projecting stone plinth, painted lime-rendered walling to extensions. Square-headed window openings, slightly projecting painted reveals, painted stone sills, painted timber two-over-two sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed porch opening, painted stone voussoirs, engaged flanking painted stone octagonal columns, encaustic geometrically patterned tiled threshold, square-headed door opening, painted stone plinth block, painted timber panelled and moulded door, c. 1890; square-headed door openings to extension, painted brick block-and-start surrounds and relieving arches, painted timber lintels and vertically sheeted doors. Farm buildings to south, east and west, mixture of painted lime-rendered and unpainted coursed random rubble walling. Set back from road with garden to north, water pump to east, whitewashed random rubble boundary walls some with segmental coping, painted roughcast gate piers with pyramidal cap stones, painted wrought-iron gates.

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

At the centre of the townland of Rampark, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rampark.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.

• Rampark, Jenkinstown23 sales

Name

Rampark · Páirc an Reithin

Area

1,701,584 m² (170.16 ha, 420.47 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymascanlan, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Lower

Electoral division

Jenkinstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,321 people lived in 416 households in the Jenkinstown electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaloughan, Loughanmore, Piedmont, Slievenaglogh

Placenames

Rampark 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.