Simonstown

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Simonstown, from 1,977 m² to 262,377 m² (26.24 ha, 64.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Simonstown 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.

• 17 Jun 2026Refused

  Retention and Permission: Retention permission is sought for the following use and works: a. Retention permission for 2no. modular structures utilised for habitable use and garden shed. The modular structures and garden shed are proposed to be retained until the proposed single storey dwelling and garage are habitable / completed. b. Retention of an existing effluent treatment system and percolation area; c. Retention of existing soakaway system. d. Retention of and alterations to the existing vehicular entrance and boundary treatments. Permission is sought for the following works: e. Permission for a new single storey dwelling house and garage; f. All additional required ancillary site development works

  Retention, 3 homes · Louth County Council, 2660384

• 12 Jun 2026N/a

  Retention and Permission. Retention permission is sought for the following use and works: a. Retention permission for 2no. modular structures utilised for habitable use and garden shed. The modular structures and garden shed are proposed to be retained until the proposed single storey dwelling and garage are habitable/completed. b. Retention of an existing effluent treatment system and percolation area. c. Retention of existing soakaway system. d. Retention of and alterations to the existing vehicular entrance and boundary treatments. Permission is sought for the following works: e. Permission for a new single storey dwelling house and garage. f. All additional required ancillary site development works

  Retention, 3 homes · Louth County Council, 2660372

• 18 May 2026N/a

  Permission for A) extension of existing slatted and loose bedded sheds with infill of cubicles & handling & drafting area with underground slatted slurry storage tank for a feeding area. B) Permission for construction of lean-to sheds adjacent to facilities described in paragraph A) to include a milking parlour, dairy & ancillary rooms, meal bin and water storage tank, waiting yard & feed area with underground slatted flow channels for slurry & soiled water. C) permission for construction of a silage slab. D) permission for construction of a slurry storage facility and all associated site works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2660295

• 28 Oct 2025Conditional

  Outline Permission for proposed dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, roadside vehicular entrance and all associated works

  Outline permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2560687

• 29 Oct 2024Refused

  Permission for proposed dwelling house, waste water treatment system and polishing filter percolation area, new vehicular entrance onto public road and all associated site development works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2460662

• 21 Dec 2017Conditional

  Permission for dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waster water treatment unit and percolation area.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 17957

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 Simonstown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Simonstown.

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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_3108 (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 Simonstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Simonstown · Baile Shíomóin

Area

694,378 m² (69.44 ha, 171.58 acres)

Civil parish

Drumcar, and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Drumcar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumcar electoral division: 1,415 people in 487 households; 85% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardballan, Clonmore, Finvoy, Mountdoyle, Plunketsland, Tullydonnell, Verdonstown

Placenames

Simonstown 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.