Raskeagh

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Raskeagh, from 60 m² to 264,500 m² (26.45 ha, 65.36 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 Raskeagh 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 Oct 2024Conditional

  EXTENSION OF DURATION OF 22/321 - permission for change of house type, previously granted permission under ref. no. 19/130. The development will consist of construction of a one and a half storey dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works**Significant further information received on 5.10.22**

  Extension of duration · Louth County Council, 24182

• 18 Dec 2020Conditional

  Permission for construction of a new two storey dwelling & two storey domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation area, and all associated site development works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 201140

• 18 Dec 2020Refused

  Retention permission for an existing single storey dwelling house with full permission sought for alterations to the existing dwelling elevations including a new roof, a new extension to the side, a new effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works

  Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 201144

• 31 Jan 2020Refused

  Retention permission for a single storey dwelling house with all associated site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2060

• 23 Sept 2019Refused

  Retention permission for an existing portal frame shed for use as a vehicle store/car servicing and repair facility, car sales/storage yard, change of use of an existing dwelling to office use and all associated site development works, including alterations to an existing vehicular entrance, concreted yard areas and various wall and boundary treatments.

  Retention · Louth County Council, 19772

• 13 Aug 2019N/a

  Retention permission for a portal frame shed for use as a vehicle store/workshop, change of use of an existing dwelling to office use and all associated site development works.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19655

• 24 Sept 2018Conditional

  The development will consist of new two storey dwellinghouse, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, associated percolation area, entrance, driveway and all associated siteworks.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 18770

• 29 May 2017N/a

  Permission for a development to consist of a new two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, associated percolation area, entrance, driveway and all associated siteworks.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 17397

• 1 Mar 2017Conditional

  Permission for a two storey house dwelling house and septic tank and percolation area and new joint domestic and agricultural entrance and all associated site works for development.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17145

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 Raskeagh.

Recorded monuments

• LH004-017001 Enclosure
  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 Oval area (int. dims. 31.5m N-S, 23m E-W) enclosed by earth and stone bank (Wth 3.8m, H 0.7m internally, 1.3m externally), now much disturbed in the SW quadrant. No visible trace of fosse. Probable ancient entrance gap (Wth 1.2m) with large stone set against each side and an external ramp at SE. Entrance gap faced with large stones at both sides. Abutting the bank on the NW is an irregular raised area (max. dims. 7m by 9m) of unknown significance. Possible souterrain (LH004-017002-) in interior.

• LH004-017002 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 (LH004-017001-).

• LH004-021001 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  Levelled in the 1960's but described by Wright (1758, bk I, 6) as having a double fosse and a triple vallum, one of which appears to have been constructed of stone. He also states that in the internal area there still remained the ruinous foundations and part of the walls of two stone buildings (LH004-021002-). These he illustrates (pl.IV) as rectangular and octagonal buildings, the latter being sited on top of oval mound, the former in a crescentic bailey. Tempest visited the site shortly before 1908 and mentioned the bailey as being a half-moon-shaped mound and that there was a fosse between it and the banks of the middle vallum. He also said he could trace two walls of the octagonal buildings but could see no trace of the rectangular one (Ua Coinn 1908, 88). Aerial photography (CUCAP: ALK 18) clearly shows the remains of this large enclosure as a cropmark. (Wright 1758, bk I, 6, pls III, IV) 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

• LH004-021002 Building
  Description

  Wright (1758, bk I, 6) noted the ruinous remains of the foundations and part of the walls of two stone buildings in the internal area of a Motte and Bailey (LH004-021001-). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 10 November 2011

• LH004-021003 Building
  Description

  Wright (1758, bk I, 6) noted the ruinous remains of the foundations and part of the walls of two stone buildings in the internal area of a motte and bailey (LH004-021001-). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 28 April, 2016

• LH004-114 Enclosure
  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 Semi-circular cropmark probably representing roughly circular enclosure (max. diam. c. 46m NE-SW) on aerial photograph (CUCAP, ALK 19).

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately high, 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_2988 (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 Raskeagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Raskeagh · Ráth Sciach

Area

985,394 m² (98.54 ha, 243.5 acres)

Civil parish

Faughart, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Faughart, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Faughart electoral division: 1,065 people in 359 households; 94% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annies, Carrickedmond, Monascreebe

Placenames

Raskeagh 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.