Walterstown
Townland in the civil parish of Dromiskin, barony of Louth, Co. Louth; in Irish Baile Bháiltéir
- Area
- 129.9 ha
- 321 acres
- Land parcels
- 77
- registered freehold, median 2,229 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 27
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Walterstown, from 8 m² to 324,635 m² (32.46 ha, 80.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Walterstown 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 May 2026Conditional
Permission for the change of house type previously granted planning permission under planning Ref. No.s 20/969 and 2460358 and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660313
21 Jan 2026Conditional
Permission for dwelling house , waste water treatment system and percolation area , decommission existing septic tank , on site soakaway , new vehucular entrance from public road and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660022
21 Jan 2026Conditional
Permission for new waste water treatment system and percolation area to serve existing dwelling house , revised site boundaries and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660023
28 Jul 2025Conditional
Retention permission for internal alterations, including provision of a games room at first floor in lieu of a void
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560480
28 Jun 2024Conditional
The construction of a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation, site access and associated site works *Significant Further Information Received on 21/10/2024*
Permission consequent · Louth County Council, 2460358
28 Jun 2024Conditional
The construction of a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation, site access and associated site works
Permission consequent · Louth County Council, 2460359
25 Nov 2022Refused
Outline permissin sought for construction of a single storey/part storey and a half dwelling, garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22915
18 Nov 2022Refused
Outline permission sought for the construction of a single storey dwelling, garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22896
20 Apr 2021Refused
Outline Permission for development that will comprise of dwelling house, septic tank system and associated works
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21435
20 Apr 2021Conditional
Outline Permission for development that will comprise of dwelling house, septic tank system and associated works. *Further Information received on 01/10/2021*
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21436
9 Mar 2021N/a
Outline permission for development that will consist of dwellinghouse, septic tank system and associated works
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21236
9 Mar 2021N/a
Outline permission for development that will consist of dwelling house, septic tank system and associated works
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21237
16 Nov 2020Conditional
Outline permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation, site access and associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20969
16 Nov 2020Conditional
Outline permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation, site access and associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20970
26 Aug 2020Conditional
Permission to erect a two storey dwelling single storey detached domestic garage, new vehicular site entrance, site boundaries, a wastewater treatment system and percolation area, the inclusion of a Natura Impact Statement and all associated site development works and services
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20652
24 Aug 2020Conditional
Permission for development consisting of a new domestic garage and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20638
2 Jul 2020N/a
Permission to erect a two storey dwelling, single storey detached domestic garage, new vehicular site entrance, site boundaries, a waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works and services
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20474
21 Feb 2020Conditional
Permission to erect a two storey dwelling, new vehicular site entrance, site boundaries, a waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works and services
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20125
17 Feb 2020Conditional
Permission for development consisting of rear extension, demolition of the garage, alterations and elevational changes to the existing house and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20108
19 Dec 2019N/a
Permission to erect a two storey dwelling, new vehicular site entrance, site boundaries, a waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works and services
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 191079
13 Dec 2019Conditional
Permission for the construction of a single storey dwelling, associated domestic garage, open new vehicular entrance to site, new packaged waste water treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site development works. **Significant Further Information received 08/06/2020**
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 191054
19 Jul 2019Conditional
Permission for a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and associated site development works. *Significant Further Information received on 09/10/2019*
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 19575
10 Dec 2018Conditional
Permission for development to consist of the construction of a dwellling, garage and the installation of a wastewater treatment system, percolation area, the retention of a shed and its demolition at commencement of the development and all associated siteworks for the proposed development.
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 181005
26 Oct 2018Conditional
Full permission to construct a storey and a half dwelling, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and percolation area, new vehicular entrance, and all associated site development works. *Significant Further Information submitted 23/04/2019*
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 18875
12 Mar 2018Conditional
OUTLINE PERMISSION for development will consist of the construction of a dwelling, garage, the installation of a waste water treatment system, percolation area, the retention of a shed for duration of the construction of the dwelling and all associated siteworks.
Outline permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 18183
The 25 most recent of 27 applications.
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 Walterstown.
Recorded monuments
- LH011-072 Fulacht fia
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 at the foot of a low rise, in marshy ground. Ploughed-down area of burnt stones and charcoal.
- LH012-028 Enclosure
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 Cropmark indicating circular enclosure on aerial photograph (CUCAP, BDG 87).
- LH012-029 Ringfort - rath
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 Sub-circular area (int. dims. 62.5m N-S, 56m E-W) enclosed by much-degraded earth bank, best preserved at W (Wth 4.8m, H 1m internally, 2m externally). The bank has been removed from NE-E-SSE, and elsewhere is reduced to a scarp (H 2m). No recognisable entrance or fosse.
- LH012-103 Enclosure
Description
Aerial photograph (GB89.I.18) shows cropmark of an incomplete curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse. Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of upload: 10 June 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Walterstown.
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 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Walterstown.
- 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 Walterstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Walterstown · Baile Bháiltéir
- Area
- 1,298,950 m² (129.9 ha, 320.98 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dromiskin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Louth
- Electoral division
- Dromiskin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dromiskin electoral division: 2,364 people in 800 households; 85% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Allardstown, Cuillenstown, Killincoole, Milltown Grange, Newtownfane, Rossmakay, Stephenstown
- Placenames
- Walterstown 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.