Thomastown

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Thomastown, from 64 m² to 133,854 m² (13.39 ha, 33.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Thomastown 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.

• 28 Aug 2026N/a

  Permission to amend a previously granted cable route (Planning Reference Louth County Council: Ref. 22/453) for development at this site in the townlands of Kilcurly, Thomastown, Donaghmore, Mounthamilton, Lisnawully and Farrandreg. The development will consist of the laying of underground 38kV medium voltage electrical cables with associated ducting, 5 no. joint bays, with associated communication chambers and ancillary development within the R178 and An Bothair Dara public roads for a distance of approximately 4.090 meters. Approximately 560 m of cabling will be on private lands associated with the permitted Kilcurly Solar Farm. The underground cable is intended to connect the permitted 38kV substation in Kilcurly Solar Farm, in Kilcurly townland, with the Dundalk 110kV ESB substation, in Farrandreg townland. The solar farm and 38kV substation were granted permission by An Bord Pleanála (PL 15.309224) on the 2nd of November 2021. This followed the notification of provisional grant of planning permission from Louth County Council (Ref. 20/187) for Kilcurly Solar Farm. Permission is sought for a period of 10 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the Application

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2660585

• 10 Dec 2020Conditional

  (1) Retention permission for alterations and extensions to an existing dwelling house to include for the change of use of an attached domestic garage to living accommodation, increase in floor area at ground and first floor level, alterations to external façade and domestic garage. (2) Permission for extension and alterations to an existing dwelling house and associated site development works *Significant Further Information submitted 05/07/21 provides for, inter alia, the replacement of existing septic tank with new wastewater treatment system*

  Retention, 3 homes · Louth County Council, 201075

• 8 Mar 2018Conditional

  PERMISSION for alterations and extension to existing dwelling house, new site entrance and all associated siteworks.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18174

• 5 Mar 2018Conditional

  Development will consist of PERMISSION for a double domestic garage with adjoining DIY/gardening equipment storage area and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18155

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 Thomastown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Thomastown.

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, 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_2963 (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 Thomastown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Thomastown · Baile Thomáis

Area

553,402 m² (55.34 ha, 136.75 acres)

Civil parish

Dunbin, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybarrack, Donaghmore, Dunbin Big, Kilcurly, Littlemill

Placenames

Thomastown 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.