Tullagee
Tullagee is a townland in the civil parish of Louth, barony of Louth, Co. Louth. Its name in Irish is Tulach Ghaoith.
- Area
- 74.8 ha
- 185 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 3,093 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tullagee, from 433 m² to 366,800 m² (36.68 ha, 90.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Tullagee 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
2 Mar 2026N/a
Retention permission for front porch and rear extension to dwelling house, permission for rear extension to dwelling to include ground and first floor and all associated site works
Retention · Louth County Council, 2660104
7 Feb 2022Conditional
permission for alterations to site boundaries and relocation of dwelling house as granted planning permission - Ref. No. 21/232 and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2290
20 Jan 2022Conditional
permission for a 1.5 storey detached garage and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2238
9 Sept 2021Conditional
Permission for a two storey detached house with single storey section to south east side, install a waste water treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works. *Significant Further Information received on 06/12/2021 which includes amended site boundaries, revised site layout and design*
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211124
1 Apr 2021Conditional
Retention and Permission: 1. Retention of the current position of dwelling house and garage on site, previously granted permission under ref. no. 03/1281; 2. Retention of site boundaries and vehicular entrance; 3. Permission to upgrade the existing effluent treatment system and all associated site development works
Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 21353
8 Mar 2021Conditional
Permission for a new domestic dwelling house and waste water treatment system and all associated site development and landscaping works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21232
25 Jan 2021N/a
Permission for a new domestic dwelling house and garage and all associated site development and landscaping works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2158
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Drumcah, Toprass And Cortial Loughs 001462
Recorded monuments
- LH006-040 Rock art (present location)
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 Two sets of multiple circles with radial grooves found on a large stone discovered several inches below the field surface, 30m E of Tullagee house. Subsequently erected on the lawn of Tullagee house. (Tempest 1933, 72-4).
- LH006-041 Souterrain
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 Described by Ua Cuinn (CLAJ 1904, 37-8) as a passage 53 ft (16.1m) in length, leading to two sub-rectangular chambers. Now inaccessible.
- LH006-125 Rock art
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- LH006-126 Rock art
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 Single cup and ring motif on small stone (L 0.3m, Wth 0.5m, T 0.3m) incorporated into field wall.
Architectural heritage
- Tullagee Bridge, bridge, 1875–1885 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arched stone road bridge, built c. 1880, carrying road over former Great Northern Railway. Snecked limestone walling, ashlar limestone string course and coping to parapet. Segmental-arch, rock-faced voussoirs, ashlar impost to arch. Random rubble stone vaulting.
- Tullagee House, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820. Flat-roofed extension to west. Hipped slate roof, clay ridge tiles, painted smooth rendered corbelled chimneystacks, cast-iron gutters on rendered eaves courses, circular cast-iron downpipes. Painted roughcast-rendered walling, smooth rendered plinth and channelled quoins. Square-headed window openings, painted smooth rendered soffits and reveals, painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows, timber casement windows to west. Round-headed door opening, roll-moulded surround, smooth rendered reveals and archivolt, painted timber pilasters supporting frieze and cornice, timber spoked fanlight, painted timber door with four flat panels, decorative cast-iron door furniture, tooled limestone step to door; square-headed door opening to extension, painted timber and glazed door. Five-bay single-storey outbuilding to south-west; pitched slate roof, random coursed stone walling; square-headed window openings, painted stone sills, painted timber casement windows; square-headed door opening, painted timber vertically-sheeted door. Ranges of outbuildings around yard to south; multiple-bay single- and two-storey ranges to east, west and south sides of yard. Pitched slate roofs, remains of red brick belfry to gable west range, random coursed stone walling, square-headed window and door openings, red brick surrounds, segmental-headed carriage arches, red brick archivolt. East range hidden by later corrugated-iron structure. Random coursed wall to north-east bounding yard from house, square-profile gate piers, wrought-iron gates. House set in mature grounds, long twisting avenue, bounded by trees, giving access from road to north-east.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Tullagee, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Tullagee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Tullagee · Tulach Ghaoith
- Area
- 748,091 m² (74.81 ha, 184.86 acres)
- Civil parish
- Louth, and its townlands
- Barony
- Louth
- Electoral division
- Castlering, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,092 people lived in 352 households in the Castlering electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annagh (Boltons), Ballinloughan, Ballintra (Co. Monaghan), Drumcah, Drumgonnelly
- Placenames
- Tullagee 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.