# Stonehouse, Co. Louth: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Mullary, barony of Ferrard, Co. Louth; in Irish Stónús. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,964,850 m² (196.49 ha, 485.53 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,634 m² (0.66 ha, 1.64 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Mullary, https://everytownland.com/louth/parish/mullary.md - Barony: Ferrard - Electoral division: Mullary, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,870 people lived in 560 households in the Mullary electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Louth, https://everytownland.com/louth.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/34053 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 140620 - Centre: latitude 53.801777, longitude -6.38259 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Stonehouse, from 17 m² to 296,805 m² (29.68 ha, 73.34 acres); 33 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1134030: 296,805 m² (29.68 ha, 73.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1134030.md - Parcel 1100821: 172,717 m² (17.27 ha, 42.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1100821.md - Parcel 1132508: 117,880 m² (11.79 ha, 29.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1132508.md - Parcel 1129285: 89,216 m² (8.92 ha, 22.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1129285.md - Parcel 1129267: 71,053 m² (7.11 ha, 17.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1129267.md - Parcel 1134102: 58,276 m² (5.83 ha, 14.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1134102.md - Parcel 1116838: 34,503 m² (3.45 ha, 8.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1116838.md - Parcel 1129274: 29,432 m² (2.94 ha, 7.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1129274.md - Parcel 1123602: 28,140 m² (2.81 ha, 6.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1123602.md - Parcel 1125720: 26,900 m² (2.69 ha, 6.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1125720.md - Parcel 1118207: 19,601 m² (1.96 ha, 4.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1118207.md - Parcel 1138045: 16,095 m² (1.61 ha, 3.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1138045.md - Parcel 1096795: 15,563 m² (1.56 ha, 3.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1096795.md - Parcel 1091443: 15,491 m² (1.55 ha, 3.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1091443.md - Parcel 1118146: 14,901 m² (1.49 ha, 3.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1118146.md - Parcel 5199209: 14,890 m² (1.49 ha, 3.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5199209.md - Parcel 1100664: 14,036 m² (1.4 ha, 3.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1100664.md - Parcel 1119291: 13,983 m² (1.4 ha, 3.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1119291.md - Parcel 1119304: 13,667 m² (1.37 ha, 3.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1119304.md - Parcel 1119384: 13,258 m² (1.33 ha, 3.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1119384.md - Parcel 1100646: 12,784 m² (1.28 ha, 3.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1100646.md - Parcel 1105773: 10,470 m² (1.05 ha, 2.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1105773.md - Parcel 1126448: 9,327 m² (0.93 ha, 2.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1126448.md - Parcel 1123519: 8,570 m² (0.86 ha, 2.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1123519.md - Parcel 1137872: 6,891 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1137872.md - Parcel 1094365: 6,660 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1094365.md - Parcel 2695964: 6,608 m² (0.66 ha, 1.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2695964.md - Parcel 1113617: 6,557 m² (0.66 ha, 1.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1113617.md - Parcel 1119308: 6,388 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1119308.md - Parcel 5199167: 5,117 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5199167.md - Parcel 1119362: 4,366 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1119362.md - Parcel 5199168: 4,342 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5199168.md - Parcel 1127143: 3,769 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1127143.md - Parcel 5432271: 3,266 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5432271.md - Parcel 3445409: 2,963 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3445409.md - Parcel 1125259: 2,714 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1125259.md - Parcel 1096876: 2,554 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1096876.md - Parcel 4966241: 2,431 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4966241.md - Parcel 1105774: 2,171 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1105774.md - Parcel 1137617: 2,135 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1137617.md - Parcel 1092111: 2,110 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1092111.md - Parcel 1136371: 2,036 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1136371.md - Parcel 5623136: 1,894 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5623136.md - Parcel 2483524: 1,732 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2483524.md - Parcel 1129108: 1,190 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1129108.md - Parcel 1121416: 967 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1121416.md - Parcel 4738016: 708 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4738016.md - Parcel 4688335: 539 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4688335.md - Parcel 1138018: 408 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1138018.md - Parcel 1127455: 160 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1127455.md - Parcel 1113727: 146 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1113727.md - Parcel 1135801: 17 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1135801.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Stonehouse 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) 7 applications, newest first. - 9 Feb 2026, Louth County Council 2660056: N/a. Permission. Ar cead pleanala chun an rochtain fheithiclí atá ann cheana a athlonnú trí rochtain nua feithiclí a chruthú ar an mbóthar poiblí agus an rochtain reatha a dhúnadh, mar aon le gach obair forbartha láithreáin ghaolmhar. Planning permission to relocate the existing vehicular access by creating a new vehicular access onto the public road and to close the existing access on to the public road, together with all associated site development works at Keeverstown, Grange bellew, Co Louth. *Significant Further Information received on 23/09/2026*. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660056/0 - 12 Sept 2025, Louth County Council 2560577: Conditional. Permission. Permission for a new feed store at an existing farm yard. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560577/0 - 29 Apr 2025, Louth County Council 2560243: N/a. Permission. Tá sé ar intinn agam, James Flood, iarratas a dhéanamh ar chead pleanálachun an rochtain fheithiclí atá ann cheana a athlonnú trí rochtain nua feithiclía chruthú ar an mbóthar poiblí agus an rochtain reatha a dhúnadh, mar aon legach obair forbartha láithreáin ghaolmhar, ag Baile Mhic Íomhair,Gráinseach an Dísirt, Contae Lú. Planning permission to relocate the existing vehicular access by creating a new vehicular access onto the public road and to close the existing access, together with all associated site development works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560243/0 - 4 Dec 2024, Louth County Council 2460766: Conditional. Permission. Permission for proposed development to consist of: (i) The construction of 5 no. wind turbines with the following parameters: a) Total tip height range of 179.5m – 180m, b) Rotor diameter range of 149m – 163m, c) Hub height range of 98m to 105m, (ii) Construction of turbine foundations, crane hardstand areas and assembly areas; (iii) All associated wind farm underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the turbines and meteorological mast to the proposed onsite electrical substation including cabling. in the public road corridor in the townlands of Gallstown and Kearneystown; (iv) Construction of 1 no. permanent 38kV electrical substation compound including a single-storey control building with welfare facilities, all associated electrical plant and equipment, security fencing, gates, all associated underground cabling, wastewater holding tank, and all ancillary structures and works in the townland of Piperstown. (v) A Battery Energy Storage System within the 38kV electrical substation compound; (vi) All works associated with the connection of the proposed wind farm to the national electricity grid which includes 5 no. of water crossings (3 no. bridges and 2 no. culverts). The provision of joint bays and associated communication chambers along the underground electrical cabling route via underground 38kV electrical cabling predominantly within the public road corridor, from the onsite substation in the townland of Piperstown to the existing Drybridge 110 kV Substation located in the townland of Tullyallen; (vii) Reinstatement of all road and track surfaces above cabling trench along existing roads and tracks in public lands; (viii) Provision of new site access tracks and upgrade of existing site tracks/roads to facilitate access to all onsite infrastructure this includes 3 no. water crossings, passing bays and all associated drainage; (ix) The provision of 2 no. new permanent site entrances for construction and operational access from the local road L6274 in the townlands of Kearneystown and Gallstown; (x) The permanent realignment of 1 no. existing entrance for construction and operational access to the 38kV electrical substation compound from the local road L2275 in the townland of Piperstown; (xi) Use of 1 no. existing site entrance for construction, operational access to the permanent met mast on a private road off local road L2275 in the townland of Drumshallon. (xii) The construction of 1 no. new temporary track in the townland o. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460766/0 - 18 Nov 2024, Louth County Council 2460709: N/a. Permission. Permission for a ten year development for: (i) The construction of 5 no. wind turbines with the following parameters: a) Total tip height range of 179.5m – 180m, b) Rotor diameter range of 149m – 163m, c) Hub height range of 98m to 105m, (ii) Construction of turbine foundations, crane hardstand areas and assembly areas; (iii) All associated wind farm underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the turbines and meteorological mast to the proposed onsite electrical substation including cabling. in the public road corridor in the townlands of Gallstown and Kearneystown; (iv) Construction of 1 no. permanent 38kV electrical substation compound including a single-storey control building with welfare facilities, all associated electrical plant and equipment, security fencing, gates, all ssociated underground cabling, wastewater holding tank, and all ancillary structures and works in the townland of Piperstown. (v) A Battery Energy Storage System within the 38kV electrical substation compound; (vi) All works associated with the connection of the proposed wind farm to the national electricity grid which includes 5 no. of water crossings (3 no. bridges and 2 no. culverts). The provision of joint bays and associated communication chambers along the underground electrical cabling route via underground 38kV electrical cabling predominantly within the public road corridor, from the onsite substation in the townland of Piperstown to the existing Drybridge 110 kV Substation located in the townland of Tullyallen; (vii) Reinstatement of all road and track surfaces above cabling trench along existing roads and tracks in public lands; (viii) Provision of new site access tracks and upgrade of existing site tracks/roads to facilitate access to all onsite infrastructure this includes 3 no. water crossings, passing bays and all associated drainage; (ix) The provision of 2 no. new permanent site entrances for construction and operational access from the local road L6274 in the townlands of Kearneystown and Gallstown; (x) The permanent realignment of 1 no. existing entrance for construction and operational access to the 38kV electrical substation compound from the local road L2275 in the townland of Piperstown; (xi) Use of 1 no. existing site entrance for construction, operational access to the permanent met mast on a private road off local road L2275 in the townland of Drumshallon. (xii) The construction of 1 no. new temporary track in the townland of Castleto. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460709/0 - 8 Jul 2020, Louth County Council 20491: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. Permission for single storey domestic garage within curtilage of a protected structure Ref LHS 018-014. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/20491/0 - 18 Jun 2020, Louth County Council 20418: N/a. Permission, 1 home. Permission for single storey domestic garage. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/20418/0 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 Stonehouse. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LH018-042: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH018-042----. 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 Marked as large enclosure on a hilltop on Taylor and Skinner's map of 1777. No visible surface trace. 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) - House, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 13901804, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LH®no=13901804. Detached two-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1800. Rectangular-plan, porch to west, rubble stone addition to north and south. Pitched thatched roof, random rubble stone chimneystack; corrugated-iron roofs to north and south additions. Lime-washed roughcast rendered walling. Square-headed window openings, painted timber one-over-one sliding sash windows, two-over-two to south addition. Square-headed door openings to porch, painted timber vertically-sheeted door; square-headed door opening to south addition, painted timber vertically-sheeted half-door. House opens onto gravel drive bounded by rubble stone wall to south-west; set on narrow country lane; cast-iron pump to south, with cow's tail handle ridge domed cap, cylindrical shaft. - Stone House, house, 1750–1770, Regional interest, registry number 13902110, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LH®no=13902110. Detached five-bay three-storey over basement house, built c. 1760. Rectangular double-pile plan, single-storey addition to west c. 1800. Pitched slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, red brick and smooth rendered corbelled chimneystacks, tooled stone verge coping, moulded cast-iron gutters to overhanging eaves, circular cast-iron downpipes. Painted roughcast-rendered walling, painted stone plinth and V-jointed quoins. Square-headed window openings, painted smooth rendered soffits and reveals, painted timber six-over-six (ground and first floors), three-over-three (second floor) and one-over-one (ground floor south elevation) sliding sash windows; painted timber fixed-light windows to west extension. Open-bed pedimented north entrance, tooled limestone raking cornice, engaged Doric columns on block plinths, incised benchmark west plinth, painted timber Y-tracery fanlight in dressed limestone tympanum; square-headed door opening, dressed limestone surround, painted timber twelve-panel door, dressed limestone threshold and flagstones; square-headed door opening to extension, painted vertically-sheeted timber door. Set in own grounds; driveway to north and east, grass to south, east and west, limestone balustrade running eastwards from north-east corner of house; single- and two-storey random rubble stone outbuildings to south-east around concrete yard, pitched slate and corrugated-iron roofs, hipped to west building, red brick bellcote to north-west building, square- and segmental-headed openings, some red brick surrounds, painted vertically-sheeted timber doors, stone steps to west end of north-west building. ## 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 Stonehouse, about 1 in 5 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: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Stonehouse. - 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/stonehouse.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/louth/stonehouse.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/louth/stonehouse.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Stonehouse 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) - Athclare: https://everytownland.com/louth/athclare.md - Burren: https://everytownland.com/louth/burren.md - Cartanstown: https://everytownland.com/louth/cartanstown.md - Castletown: https://everytownland.com/louth/castletown-140155.md - Groom: https://everytownland.com/louth/groom.md - Kearneystown: https://everytownland.com/louth/kearneystown.md - Keeverstown: https://everytownland.com/louth/keeverstown.md - Longstones: https://everytownland.com/louth/longstones.md - Priest Town: https://everytownland.com/louth/priest-town.md - Roxborough: https://everytownland.com/louth/roxborough.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/stonehouse - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/louth/stonehouse