Sheelagh

78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sheelagh, from 149 m² to 76,463 m² (7.65 ha, 18.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Sheelagh 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.

• 14 Nov 2025Conditional

  Permission for alterations to existing single storey house to include single storey extension to the side and rear, a new waste water treatment system, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560727

• 2 Sept 2025Conditional

  The Development consists of the following: 1. Retention permission for domestic garage to rear of existing dwellinghouse, 2. Permission for alterations to existing site boundaries and all associated site development works.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560547

• 25 Jun 2025Refused

  The development consists of alterations to existing combined entrance to provide separate residential and agricultural entrances, alterations to existing site boundaries and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560395

• 4 Dec 2024Refused

  Permission for a dwelling house and a detached domestic garage, new site entrance onto public road, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2460762

• 29 Nov 2024N/a

  Permission for a dwelling house and a detached domestic garage, new site entrance onto public road, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2460745

• 5 May 2023Refused

  Permission for a single storey dwelling, new site entrance, waste water teatment system with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360088

• 4 Apr 2023N/a

  Single Storey Dwelling, New Site Entrance, Waste Water Treatment System with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360056

• 25 May 2021Conditional

  Part 8 - Louth County Council hereby gives notice of its intention to carry out realignment of the N53 National Secondary Route in the townlands of Rassan, Shanmullagh, Annaghvacky, Carrickastuck and Barronstown, comprising the construction of a single carriageway road for a distance of 3.3km from a location 920m east of the N53 junction with local road L-3119 in the townland of Rassan to a location 180m west of the N53 junction with local road L-3125 in the townland of Barronstown and associated accommodation and fencing works, landscaping works, drainage works and ancillary works. The N53 realignment will typically consist of 7.3m of carriageway with 2.5m hard shoulders and 3m verges. A ghost island junction will be located approximately 300m east of Annaghvackey cross roads. There will be a new link road, approx. 6m long, connecting the existing N53 with proposed new N53 with the proposed alignment at this location. Travelling south on the LP-7120from Annaghvacky cross roads towards Treagh the LP-7120 will be cul de saced 320m approx. from Annaghvacky cross roads. The LT-31252 Clonaleenaghan road will have a simple junction with the N53. The LP-3117 (Crossmaglen) and adjacent LS 7116 will remain simple junctions off the existing N53 which will be reclassified as a local road

  Permission · Louth County Council, 21648

• 8 Feb 2021Conditional

  Proposed development consisting of one dwellinghouse, domestic garage/shed, wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works. *Significant Further Information received on 01/06/2021*

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 21115

• 14 Dec 2020Conditional

  Permission for one dwelling house, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works. *Significant Further Information received on 15/06/2021*

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 201092

• 18 Sept 2019Conditional

  Permission sought for detached domestic garage and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19761

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 Sheelagh.

Recorded monuments

• LH003-018001 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 Subcircular area (int. dims. 50m E-W, c. 47m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (Wth 4m, H 0.5m internally, 1.7-2.4m externally), now reduced to a scarp in places and incorporated in a modern stone fence in the SE quadrant. Possible souterrain (LH003-018002-) in interior.

• LH003-018002 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 suggests there may be a 'cave' in ringfort (LH003-018001-).

Architectural heritage

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

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 Sheelagh, about 1 in 10 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 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 Sheelagh.

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.

No address of the register names Sheelagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Sheelagh · Saileogach

Area

1,171,908 m² (117.19 ha, 289.58 acres)

Civil parish

Creggan, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Creggan Upper, the unit of the census

Census 2022

875 people lived in 298 households in the Creggan Upper electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaghvacky, Courtbane, Rassan, Shanmullagh, Tawnamore

Placenames

Sheelagh 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.