Timullen
Townland in the civil parish of Monasterboice, barony of Ferrard, Co. Louth; in Irish Tigh an Mhuilinn
- Area
- 65.2 ha
- 161 acres
- Land parcels
- 49
- registered freehold, median 5,547 m² (0.55 ha, 1.37 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Timullen, from 89 m² to 138,899 m² (13.89 ha, 34.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Timullen 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 Aug 2026N/a
Permission for the construction of an agricultural shed consisting of feeding area with underground slatted slurry storage tank and all associated site works
Permission · Louth County Council, 2660571
24 Jun 2026Conditional
Retention and Permission: Retention permission for a double garage and sunroom to the side of house. Permission for a proposed soakaway in the rear garden along with the ancillary site development works
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2682
5 Oct 2023Conditional
Planning Permission and Retention Permission for: a) Construction of an agricultural shed consisting of cubicles, straw bedded area & feeding area with underground slatted slurry storage tank; b) Construction of a calf rearing shed; c) Retention Permission of existing straw bedded calving shed; d) Retention Permission of 2 no. lean-to sheds consisting of cubicles and feeding area; e) Retention Permission of lean-to calf rearing shed; f) Retention Permission of geomembrane-lined slurry lagoon and all associated site works. *Significant Further Information received on 15/08/2024 and revised notices received on 28/08/2024 which includes an Appropriate Assessment Screening Report and amendment to the site boundary*
Retention · Louth County Council, 2360387
25 Mar 2022Conditional
Permission for development to consist of construction of a livestock underpass, effluent holding tank and all associated site works.
Permission · Louth County Council, 22241
30 Apr 2021N/a
Permission for development that will consist of a new single storey extension to side of existing dwelling and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21493
11 Dec 2019N/a
Permission for a new single storey extension to side of existing dwelling and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 191037
13 Apr 2017Conditional
Permission for milking parlour located within existing farmyard including slatted tank, widen existing roadside entance gate and all associated site works.
Permission · Louth County Council, 17281
6 Feb 2017N/a
Permission for extension to existing agricultural building, new yard area with slatted tank and all associated site works. The new extension to be used as a milking parlour.
Permission · Louth County Council, 1767
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Timullen.
Recorded monuments
- LH021-029 Slab-lined burial
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 Long cist containing an extended inhumation uncovered in the late nineteenth century in a field known as 'Timullen More'. The site was subsequently covered over. (CLAJ 1945, 55)
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Timullen.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Timullen.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Timullen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Timullen · Tigh an Mhuilinn
- Area
- 651,548 m² (65.15 ha, 161 acres)
- Civil parish
- Monasterboice, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ferrard
- Electoral division
- Monasterboice, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Monasterboice electoral division: 1,445 people in 491 households; 93% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barabona, Cordoogan, Monasterboice, Newtown Monasterboice
- Placenames
- Timullen 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.