Townrath

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Townrath, from 199 m² to 349,352 m² (34.94 ha, 86.33 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 Townrath 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.

• 19 Feb 2025Conditional

  Permission for the development which will comprise of a two bay extension to an existing grain store at this site, Drummonds Limited, Townrath, Drogheda, Co. Louth, A92 DY06. The development will consist of (i) an extension of 541 square metres to an existing grain store (ii) the extended floor area incorporates an aeration system consisting of two external ground mounted fans which will be acoustically enclosed (iii) extension to the existing concrete yard area (iv) all associated site development works, landscaping and boundary treatments. The existing grain store to be extended currently extends to 1,018 square metres and the proposed extension building will be in keeping with the height, depth, finishes and colours as the existing grain store at this site. Access to the site will be via the existing established access off the Local Road L2307 (Newtownstalaban Road).

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2560094

• 28 Mar 2024Conditional

  Permission for : 1) Alterations to existing dwelling house including demolishing of existing ground floor extensions and attached garage; 2) Construction of ground floor and dormer style extension to the existing dwelling house; 3) Upgrading existing vehicular entrance; 4) Retention of mobile home during the course of the works and; 5) Decommissioning of existing septic tank and installation of new waste water treatment system and all associated site development works *Significant Further Information Received on 07/11/2024*

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2460165

• 19 Jan 2024N/a

  Permission for: 1) Alterations to existing dwelling house including demolishing of existing ground floor extensions and attached garage; 2) Construction of ground floor and dormer style extension to the existing dwelling house; 3) Upgrading existing vehicular entrance; 4) Decommissioning of existing septic tank and installation of new waste water treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460031

• 15 Jan 2024N/a

  Permission for: 1) Alterations to existing dwelling house including demolishing of existing ground floor extensions and attached garage; 2) Construction of ground floor and dormer style extension to the existing dwelling house; 3) Upgrading existing vehicular entrance; 4) Decommissioning of existing septic tank and installation of new waste water treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460021

• 18 Aug 2022Conditional

  Retention permission for a new Kingspan Environmental BA Biodisc waste water treatment unit coupled with a twin set of Kingspan modular reedbeds and tertiary treatment provided by a constructed integrated filter bed which replaces the original septic tank and soakaway along with any associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22663

• 4 May 2022Refused

  permission for the construction of four glamping pods, service block, bin storage, waste water treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 22359

• 6 Apr 2022N/a

  Permission for the construction of four glamping pods, service block, bin storage, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 22276

• 3 Aug 2021N/a

  Permission to erect 4 no. pods in a field, to be used for glamping purposes and for a waste water treatment system/percolation area along with ancillary site development works. It is proposed to utilise the existing access from the public road

  Permission, 4 homes · Louth County Council, 21968

• 14 Nov 2018Conditional

  Permssion for new domestic use shed.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18924

• 3 Aug 2018N/a

  The development will consist of: Full permission for new domestic use shed.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18623

• 20 Mar 2018Conditional

  RETENTION planning permission for development works carried out comprising of a detached double garage.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18206

• 6 Jul 2017Conditional

  Permission to consist of a proposed single-storey extension to the side of the existing cottage with 2 no. roof lights in the rear roof. A proposed single storey glazed link between the existing buildings with a new front door and a roof light, together with all associated landscaping and site works. The retention of a single storey extension to the rear with 4 no. windows.

  Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 17515

• 14 Jun 2017N/a

  Permission for development to consist of: A proposed single storey extension to the side of the existing cottage with 2 no. roof lights in the rear roof. A proposed single storey glazed link between the existing buildings with a new front door and a roof light, together with all associated landscaping and site works. The retention of a single storey extension to the rear with 4 no. windows.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 17445

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 Townrath.

Recorded monuments

• LH024-005 Earthwork
  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 Site presumably that referred to as 'Townrath' on 1835 ed. of OS 6-inch map. A rath is described as having existed N of town walls (D'Alton 1844, 101). No visible surface trace.

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 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_3142 (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.

• Townrath, Drogheda5 sales

Name

Townrath · An Túnráth

Area

1,722,213 m² (172.22 ha, 425.57 acres)

Civil parish

St. Peter's, and its townlands

Barony

Drogheda

Electoral division

St. Peter's, the unit of the census

Census 2022

St. Peter's electoral division: 10,951 people in 3,492 households; 71% of households own their home; 53% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Canonstown, Carntown, Carstown, Commons, Listoke, Newtownstalaban

Placenames

Townrath 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.