# Slieve, Co. Louth: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kane, barony of Dundalk Upper, Co. Louth; in Irish An Mhuinchille. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 571,482 m² (57.15 ha, 141.22 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,499 m² (0.75 ha, 1.85 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kane, https://everytownland.com/louth/parish/kane.md - Barony: Dundalk Upper - Electoral division: Faughart, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,065 people lived in 359 households in the Faughart electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Louth, https://everytownland.com/louth.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33800 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 140606 - Centre: latitude 54.034233, longitude -6.492419 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Slieve, from 185 m² to 146,265 m² (14.63 ha, 36.14 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1123148: 146,265 m² (14.63 ha, 36.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1123148.md - Parcel 1094815: 49,962 m² (5 ha, 12.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1094815.md - Parcel 1094901: 47,414 m² (4.74 ha, 11.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1094901.md - Parcel 2761955: 40,646 m² (4.06 ha, 10.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2761955.md - Parcel 1123151: 35,718 m² (3.57 ha, 8.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1123151.md - Parcel 1094900: 24,364 m² (2.44 ha, 6.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1094900.md - Parcel 2711693: 23,475 m² (2.35 ha, 5.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2711693.md - Parcel 2487056: 23,259 m² (2.33 ha, 5.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2487056.md - Parcel 1123149: 21,497 m² (2.15 ha, 5.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1123149.md - Parcel 1129778: 20,871 m² (2.09 ha, 5.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1129778.md - Parcel 4476973: 20,168 m² (2.02 ha, 4.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4476973.md - Parcel 1123141: 13,558 m² (1.36 ha, 3.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1123141.md - Parcel 1123142: 10,691 m² (1.07 ha, 2.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1123142.md - Parcel 2479106: 10,394 m² (1.04 ha, 2.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2479106.md - Parcel 1094812: 10,315 m² (1.03 ha, 2.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1094812.md - Parcel 2479485: 9,991 m² (1 ha, 2.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2479485.md - Parcel 1094814: 9,253 m² (0.93 ha, 2.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1094814.md - Parcel 1094809: 7,917 m² (0.79 ha, 1.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1094809.md - Parcel 2711827: 7,082 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2711827.md - Parcel 1123150: 5,940 m² (0.59 ha, 1.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1123150.md - Parcel 2711690: 5,868 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2711690.md - Parcel 5437425: 4,371 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5437425.md - Parcel 1123139: 3,264 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1123139.md - Parcel 1096971: 3,141 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1096971.md - Parcel 1091780: 2,611 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1091780.md - Parcel 1094810: 2,272 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1094810.md - Parcel 1137579: 2,261 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1137579.md - Parcel 5167563: 2,094 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5167563.md - Parcel 5167546: 1,841 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5167546.md - Parcel 1127191: 1,714 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1127191.md - Parcel 1115874: 930 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1115874.md - Parcel 1094813: 591 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1094813.md - Parcel 1091372: 516 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1091372.md - Parcel 2645271: 431 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2645271.md - Parcel 1094811: 336 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1094811.md - Parcel 1094802: 185 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1094802.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Slieve in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 30 Jun 2026, Louth County Council 2660435: N/a. Permission, 1 home. Permission for restoration, adaptation and single storey extension of existing vernacular stone cottage and attached outbuilding. Permission is also sought for installation of proprietary waste water treatment system and all associated external site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660435/0 - 8 Dec 2025, Louth County Council 25176: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. Permission to convert the remaining parts of an existing vernacular building into 2 no. 1 bed residential units to include all associated site works. This proposal is associated with a previously approved application, under planning reference number 24/66. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/25176/0 - 7 Feb 2025, Louth County Council 2560057: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Restoration, adaptation and single storey extension of existing vernacular stone cottage and attached outbuilding. Permission is also sought for installation of proprietary waste water treatment system and all associated external site development works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560057/0 - 27 Jan 2025, Louth County Council 2560039: N/a. Permission, 1 home. Permission for restoration, adaptation and single storey extension of existing vernacular stone cottage and attached outbuilding. Permission is also sought for installation of proprietary waste water treatment system and all associated external site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560039/0 - 25 Apr 2024, Louth County Council 2466: Conditional. Retention, 3 homes. Retention & Permission: 1. Retention of the conversion of part of an existing vernacular building into 3 no. residential units. 2. Permission for a new domestic waste water treatment system. 3. Permission to make improvements to the existing vehicular site entrance to include all associated site works *Significant Further Information Received 23/10/2024*. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2466/0 - 2 Aug 2023, Louth County Council 2360265: Refused. Permission, 1 home. Permission for a new two storey Dwelling, New Site Entrance & Waste Water Treatment System with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360265/0 - 12 May 2022, Louth County Council 22374: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. permission for a bungalow type dwelling house, a domestic garage, a domestic waste water treatment system, a new site entrance with all associated site development works **Significant Further Information received on 21.7.22**. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/22374/0 - 12 Mar 2018, Louth County Council 18184: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. PERMISSION for development will consist of realignment of site boundaries with all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/18184/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Slieve. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LH003-038: Promontory fort - inland, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH003-038----. 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 Situated on the summit of a short ridge in undulating countryside. An oval area (max. dims. c. 33m N-S, c. 26m E-W) is demarcated by an earth and stone bank (Wth 6.9m, H 0.9m) from SW-W-N and on other sides by a steep drop in slope. The bank cuts off the interior of the site from the remainder of the ridge at the W, thus giving rise to its present classification. At the base of the ridge on the SE-S are the remains of two irregularly-shaped enclosures, but these may be associated with the ruins of a modern house at the SW. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Slieve Cottage, farm house, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 13900306, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LH®no=13900306. Detached three-bay single-storey house, built c. 1800. Rectangular-plan, single-storey link to two-bay two-storey house c. 1950 to west with attached outbuildings and east and west farmyard. Pitched slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, red brick corbelled chimneystacks, uPVC gutters. Painted roughcast rendered walling, unpainted to south, painted smooth rendered plinth and quoins. Square-headed window openings, painted smooth rendered reveals and soffits, painted stone sills, painted timber multiple-pane casement windows to east block, two-over-two timber sliding sash windows to north elevation west block. Round-headed door opening, painted smooth rendered reveals and soffit, painted timber and glazed door, plain glazed fanlight, concrete and stone steps to east, square-headed opening, timber and glazed door to north elevation, west block. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to west, pitched slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, uPVC gutters, painted roughcast rendered walling tie-beam plates to north and south elevations, square-headed window and door openings to north and south elevations, painted timber vertically sheeted shutters and doors, segmental-arched carriage opening to west elevation, painted profiled metal sheeted door, square-headed door opening to first floor north elevation, external cement rendered stair, painted rubble stone wall to north, mild steel handrail to south. Detached single-bay single-storey single-pitched slate roofed outbuilding to north-west corner, west yard; painted roughcast rendered dividing wall, wrought-iron gates; cast-iron pump to east yard, pedestrian entrance to north, square profile gate piers, concave pyramidal flat caps, cast-iron gates, curved flanking walls. Set within own grounds, painted roughcast rendered walling to north-east, painted roughcast rendered cylindrical gate piers, painted smooth rendered cap stones, wrought-iron gates. Rubble stone flat-arched pedestrian gate to north, wrought-iron gate, single-storey derelict stone outbuildings to north, now derelict, roughly coursed rubble walling, square-headed window and door openings. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Slieve, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2924, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2924.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/louth/slieve.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/louth/slieve.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/louth/slieve.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Slieve with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth: https://everytownland.com/louth.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Knockagh: https://everytownland.com/louth/knockagh.md - Philipstown: https://everytownland.com/louth/philipstown-140516.md - Shortstone East: https://everytownland.com/louth/shortstone-east.md - Shortstone West: https://everytownland.com/louth/shortstone-west.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/louth/slieve - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/louth/slieve