Seecrin
Seecrin is a townland in the civil parish of Carlingford, barony of Dundalk Lower, Co. Louth. Its name in Irish is Suí Croinn.
- Area
- 13.5 ha
- 33 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 2,216 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Seecrin, from 13 m² to 37,840 m² (3.78 ha, 9.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Seecrin 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
22 Apr 2026Conditional
RED III Application - Permission for the erection and installation of (i) a new single storey detached flat roofed biomass boiler unit with an attached fuel store and flue in accordance with the Renewable Energy Directive III (RED III) Development; (ii) with all associated siteworks, services and landscaping to facilitate the proposed development
Permission · Louth County Council, 2660225
8 Aug 2025Conditional
The development consists of the following: 1. Change of use from voluntary community workshop to showrooms to existing kitchen manufacturing business, 2. First floor extension to provide office accommodation and all Associated site development works. *Significant Further Information Received on 28/01/2026*
Permission · Louth County Council, 2560505
15 Apr 2025Conditional
Permission for extension to front of existing workshop, elevational changes and all associated site development works.
Permission · Louth County Council, 2560214
14 Dec 2018Conditional
Permission for development to consist of (a) partial demolition of existing school including detached external store, permanent teaching structure and temporary teaching structures (b) construction of new two storey extension which will include Home Economics , Science, Art and general classrooms along with Special Needs Unit, offices, and ancillary stores (c) extension to include roof mounted photovoltaic panels (d) provision of new onsite ESB substation structure (e) provision of new on site proprietary wastewater treatment system with 24 hour storage (15.2m3) and sand polishing filter (400m2), (f) modifications to existing school elevation forming new general classroom space (g) modifications to existing front boundary including width increase of both existing site entrances (h) adjustment to existing bus set down to front of school (i) reconfiguration of existing onsite parking and provision of new staff parking areas with onsite visitor set down and parking facilities (j) the site is the subject of a hydrological assessment (k) and all ancillary site works.
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 181023
31 Oct 2018N/a
The development will consist of (a) partial demolition of existing school including detached external store, permanent teaching structure and temporary teaching structures (b) construction of new two storey extension which will inlcude Home Economics, Science, Art and general classrooms along with Special Needs Unit, offices, toilets and ancillary stores (c) extension to include roof mounted photovoltaic panels (d) provision of new onsite ESB substation structure (e) modifications to existing school elevation forming new general classroom space (f) modifications to existing front boundary including width increase of both existing site entrances (g) adjustment to existing bus set down to front of school (h) reconfiguration of existing onsite parking and provision of new staffparking areas with onsite visitor set down and parking facilities (i) and all ancillary site works.
Permission · Louth County Council, 18881
10 Oct 2018N/a
The development will consist of (a) partial demolition of existing school including detached external store, permanent teaching structure and temporary teaching structures (b) construction of new two storey extension which will inlcude Home Economics, Science, Art and general classrooms along with Special Needs Unit, offices, toilets and ancillary stores (c) extension to include roof mounted photovoltaic panels (d) provision of new onsite ESB substation structure (e) modifications to existing school elevation forming new general classroom space (f) modifications to existing front boundary including width increase of both existing site entrances (g) adjustment to existing bus set down to front of school (h) reconfiguration of existing onsite parking and provision of new staffparking areas with onsite visitor set down and parking facilities (i) and all ancillary site works.
Permission · Louth County Council, 18814
9 May 2017Conditional
Permission for development to consist of the construction of a single storey prefabricated building which will accommodate 1 no. classroom & the construction of a two-storey prefabricated building which will accommodate 2 no. classrooms and all ancillary works. *Significant Further Information submitted 10/08/2017*
Permission · Louth County Council, 17344
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Seecrin.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Seecrin.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Seecrin.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Seecrin, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Seecrin.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Seecrin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Seecrin · Suí Croinn
- Area
- 135,421 m² (13.54 ha, 33.46 acres)
- Civil parish
- Carlingford, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dundalk Lower
- Electoral division
- Rathcor, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,484 people lived in 467 households in the Rathcor electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Galtrimsland, Lugbriscan, Rath Lower, Rathcor
- Placenames
- Seecrin 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.