Walshestown

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Walshestown, from 2,026 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 577,447 m² (57.74 ha, 142.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Walshestown 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.

• 1 Apr 2026N/a

  Permission for a domestic garage and upgrading the existing former farm access from the public road along with the ancillary site development works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2650

• 10 Jun 2019N/a

  Permission for a proposed dwelling house, waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter, new vehicular entrance and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19443

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 Walshestown.

Recorded monuments

• LH019-011 Mound
  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 Situated near the summit of a long ridge running WNW-ESE. The site is a flat-topped trapezoidal mound (L 12m; Wth 7.8m at SSW, 5.2m at NNE; max. H 1m) aligned NNE-SSW. (CLAJ 1911, 361)

• LH022-051 Enclosure
  Description

  Located at the tip of a low W-S spur. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) defined by a continuous fosse feature (Wth c. 2-3m) is visible only on Google Earth (12/07/2013). It was first reported by Mathew Mullen-Reynolds. See the attached aerial view from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 12 November 2019

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, church/chapel, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Roman Catholic church, built 1837. Four-bay nave, entrance porch to west, three-stage crennellated square tower to east with engaged octagonal crennellated turret to north-east, sacristy to north-east. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, stone verge copings to east and west gables, carved stone cross finial to west gable, moulded cast-iron gutters, cast-iron gutters on painted timber eaves to entrance porch, cast-iron downpipes. Painted roughcast over (and detaching from) smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walling, painted smooth rendered projecting plinth, smooth rendered splay-capped buttresses to nave and west gable, diagonal buttresses to corners of east elevation and tower, rubble limestone walling with ashlar quoins, strings and crenellations to upper stage of turret. Four-centred arched window openings to nave, rectangular hood mouldings, painted stone chamfered reveals, recessed panels to spandrels, splayed sills, painted timber mullioned and transomed window with pointed arches to upper panels, stained glass diamond-paned leaded lights; four-centred arched window opening to base of tower (formerly door opening), deeply-recessed painted smooth rendered splayed surround, rectangular hood moulding with label stops, foliate detailing to spandrels, paired pointed-arch windows with diamond-paned leaded lights; four-centred arched window opening to second stage of tower, smooth rendered splayed surround, three-panel stone tracery, fixed diamond-paned lights, stone hood moulding with carved heads to label stops; loop windows to turret; pointed-arch window openings to sacristy, slightly recessed splayed ashlar stone surrounds, fixed diamond-paned leaded lights. Pointed arch door opening to entrance porch, smooth rendered surround, hardwood vertically-sheeted double doors; square-headed door opening to sacristy, painted timber diagonally-sheeted door, accessed by flight of concrete steps. Set back from road, lawns, elaborate monument to east dedicated to Rev. John Clarke.

• Walshestown House, country house, 1795–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey over basement house, built 1799. Originally three-bay, single-bay extension to south, single-storey basement extension to centre east surmounted by first floor gabled conservatory built 2005. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, unpainted smooth rendered ruled-and-lined corbelled chimneystacks, moulded cast-iron gutters on corbelled eaves, uPVC downpipes. Unpainted roughcast rendered walling, smooth rendered quoins, smooth rendered plinth, rubble stone walling to east extension. Square-headed window openings, stop-chamfered smooth rendered surrounds, tooled limestone sills, painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows, uPVC casements to basement and extensions. Round-headed door opening, painted smooth rendered surround with prominent keystone, painted timber engaged Doric columns flank entrance supporting frieze and cornice, fanlight with intersecting glazing bars, painted timber door with four bolection-moulded panels, accessed by flight of rendered steps bridging basement area, steps flanked by curving wrought-iron balustrade. Set in extensive grounds, gravelled forecourt, lawns; single-storey outbuildings to south and south-west, pitched corrugated-iron and slate roofs, roughcast and painted rubble stone walling; unpainted smooth rendered ruled-and-lined entrance gate screen, square gate piers with shallow pyramidal caps, mild steel gates.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Walshestown.

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 Walshestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Walshestown · Baile an Bhailsigh

Area

857,186 m² (85.72 ha, 211.82 acres)

Civil parish

Rathdrumin, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

Electoral division

Clogher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clogher electoral division: 3,446 people in 1,141 households; 80% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardbolies, Baggotstown, Drumgooter, Garrolagh, Killartery, Reynoldstown, Rinkinstown

Placenames

Walshestown 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.