# Williamstown, Co. Louth: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilsaran, barony of Ardee, Co. Louth; in Irish Baile Liam. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,361,437 m² (236.14 ha, 583.52 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,181 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 13 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilsaran, https://everytownland.com/louth/parish/kilsaran.md - Barony: Ardee - Electoral division: Castlebellingham, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,882 people lived in 704 households in the Castlebellingham electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Louth, https://everytownland.com/louth.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33508 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 140676 - Centre: latitude 53.879046, longitude -6.406004 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Williamstown, from 7 m² to 206,110 m² (20.61 ha, 50.93 acres); 35 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1132430: 206,110 m² (20.61 ha, 50.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1132430.md - Parcel 1120903: 189,536 m² (18.95 ha, 46.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1120903.md - Parcel 5109743: 89,635 m² (8.96 ha, 22.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5109743.md - Parcel 5357140: 70,070 m² (7.01 ha, 17.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5357140.md - Parcel 1120918: 66,791 m² (6.68 ha, 16.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1120918.md - Parcel 5355115: 56,285 m² (5.63 ha, 13.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5355115.md - Parcel 1122326: 55,366 m² (5.54 ha, 13.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1122326.md - Parcel 1120904: 43,604 m² (4.36 ha, 10.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1120904.md - Parcel 1120828: 42,466 m² (4.25 ha, 10.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1120828.md - Parcel 1116927: 35,221 m² (3.52 ha, 8.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1116927.md - Parcel 1097486: 34,764 m² (3.48 ha, 8.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1097486.md - Parcel 1120914: 29,363 m² (2.94 ha, 7.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1120914.md - Parcel 1120919: 26,256 m² (2.63 ha, 6.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1120919.md - Parcel 1097490: 23,711 m² (2.37 ha, 5.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1097490.md - Parcel 1121020: 20,473 m² (2.05 ha, 5.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1121020.md - Parcel 1120827: 20,116 m² (2.01 ha, 4.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1120827.md - Parcel 1120915: 13,547 m² (1.35 ha, 3.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1120915.md - Parcel 1121019: 12,597 m² (1.26 ha, 3.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1121019.md - Parcel 5765750: 6,108 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5765750.md - Parcel 1125466: 5,184 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1125466.md - Parcel 1120686: 4,381 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1120686.md - Parcel 5024945: 4,223 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5024945.md - Parcel 1120916: 3,749 m² (0.37 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1120916.md - Parcel 1120095: 3,591 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1120095.md - Parcel 1098893: 3,152 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1098893.md - Parcel 1120253: 2,916 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1120253.md - Parcel 2714524: 2,844 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2714524.md - Parcel 1097487: 2,802 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1097487.md - Parcel 1094737: 2,502 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1094737.md - Parcel 1119462: 2,459 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1119462.md - Parcel 1114955: 2,367 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1114955.md - Parcel 1099727: 2,340 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1099727.md - Parcel 1098507: 2,298 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1098507.md - Parcel 1093620: 2,181 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1093620.md - Parcel 1126331: 2,119 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1126331.md - Parcel 1097489: 2,094 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1097489.md - Parcel 1129735: 2,068 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1129735.md - Parcel 1103301: 2,004 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1103301.md - Parcel 5157959: 1,862 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5157959.md - Parcel 1128253: 1,766 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1128253.md - Parcel 5054185: 1,707 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5054185.md - Parcel 1092684: 1,565 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1092684.md - Parcel 1097450: 1,561 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1097450.md - Parcel 1113524: 1,451 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1113524.md - Parcel 1094050: 1,433 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1094050.md - Parcel 1091497: 1,403 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1091497.md - Parcel 1120921: 1,356 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1120921.md - Parcel 1136771: 1,202 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1136771.md - Parcel 1113477: 991 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1113477.md - Parcel 1099882: 977 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1099882.md - Parcel 1119738: 914 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1119738.md - Parcel 1093346: 864 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1093346.md - Parcel 1106036: 557 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1106036.md - Parcel 1122798: 428 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1122798.md - Parcel 1121861: 353 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1121861.md - Parcel 1124780: 300 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1124780.md - Parcel 5459975: 274 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5459975.md - Parcel 1095924: 207 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1095924.md - Parcel 1121660: 203 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1121660.md - Parcel 2645711: 158 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2645711.md - Parcel 2714509: 127 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2714509.md - Parcel 2714521: 105 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2714521.md - Parcel 1094927: 97 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1094927.md - Parcel 1125200: 76 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1125200.md - Parcel 1128821: 38 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1128821.md - Parcel 1096016: 25 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1096016.md - Parcel 2645712: 7 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2645712.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Williamstown in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 13 applications, newest first. - 1 Oct 2026, Louth County Council 2660676: N/a. Permission, 1 home. Permission to demolish existing side shed to existing dwelling, construct new storey and a half side extension to existing dwelling including new waste water treatment system and percolation area, decommission existing septic tank, on-site soakawy, new site boundaries and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660676/0 - 22 May 2026, Louth County Council 2660320: Conditional. Retention. Retention Permission for agricultural store extension onto existing stores. Permission for new detached agricultural store including access to same, on site soakaway and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660320/0 - 9 Sept 2025, Louth County Council 25141: Conditional. Extension of duration. EXTENSION OF DURATION OF 191049 - Permission for development at Protected Structure No. LHS015-003B) to carry out the following at Williamstown House Farmyard Complex, its outbuildings, walled gardens and associated features: external amendments to the existing dwelling (Building A) to include a new stair structure, porches to external doors, amendments to fenestration. Conversion & sub-division of the east wing of Building A to 2 no. three bedroom 2 storey own-door guest apartment type units for rental purposes, with works to include amendments to all elevations. The conversion of the existing barn buildings (C & D) to 2 no. four bed guest residential units, with a ground floor entrance lobby & living room extension to north. Works to include amendments to all elevations. Amendments to the existing courtyard wall to include the reopening of a former entrance archway, which includes demolition of an outhouse connected to Building A and associated remedial works. The installation of individual waste water treatment units and surface water disposal works for each of 5 no. residential units in the complex. Reopening of existing closed up entrance of laneway to serve Building A, with associated new section of driveway. Revision of existing driveway to form access to Building D with new section of driveway and new opening in garden wall. Landscape works to include restoration & upgrade of existing courtyard, and enclosures to each unit, with associated site works **Significant Further Information received 10/08/2020**. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/25141/0 - 20 Apr 2022, Louth County Council 22320: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. retention permission for a single storey flat roof extension to the rear of existing dwelling house, retention permission also sought for a new window to the rear wall of the existing dwelling house, conversion of the roof attic to domestic storage, new roof lights to the rear roof of the existing dwelling house and associated site development works **Significant further Information received on 21.7.22 provides for, inter alia, the provision of a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area**. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/22320/0 - 28 Mar 2022, Louth County Council 22285: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for a single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling, demolition of some existing elements of the dwelling, internal and external works to the dwelling and waste water treatment system and polishing filter, together with all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/22285/0 - 27 Aug 2020, Louth County Council 20656: N/a. Permission, 1 home. External amendments to the existing residential dwelling to include a new stair structure in courtyard with amendments to fenestration with additional doors, windows, dormers and rooflights on the south and east elevation.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/20656/0 - 18 Mar 2020, Louth County Council 20197: Refused. Outline permission, 1 home. Outline permission for dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/20197/0 - 12 Dec 2019, Louth County Council 191049: Conditional. Permission, 3 homes. Permission for development at Protected Structure No. LHS015-003B) to carry out the following at Williamstown House Farmyard Complex, its outbuildings, walled gardens and associated features: external amendments to the existing dwelling (Building A) to include a new stair structure, porches to external doors, amendments to fenestration. Conversion & sub-division of the east wing of Building A to 2 no. three bedroom 2 storey own-door guest apartment type units for rental purposes, with works to include amendments to all elevations. The conversion of the existing barn buildings (C & D) to 2 no. four bed guest residential units, with a ground floor entrance lobby & living room extension to north. Works to include amendments to all elevations. Amendments to the existing courtyard wall to include the reopening of a former entrance archway, which includes demolition of an outhouse connected to Building A and associated remedial works. The installation of individual waste water treatment units and surface water disposal works for each of 5 no. residential units in the complex. Reopening of existing closed up entrance of laneway to serve Building A, with associated new section of driveway. Revision of existing driveway to form access to Building D with new section of driveway and new opening in garden wall. Landscape works to include restoration & upgrade of existing courtyard, and enclosures to each unit, with associated site works **Significant Further Information received 10/08/2020**. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/191049/0 - 2 Dec 2019, Louth County Council 19993: N/a. Permission, 1 home. Permission for development on Protected Structure LHS015-003B, Williamstown House Farmyard Complex, it's outbuildings, walled gardens and associated features: Conversion and subdivision of the east wing of Building A to 2 no. three bed room, 2 storey own-door guest apartment type units for rental purposes, with works to include amendments to all elevations. The conversion of the existing barn buildings (C & D) to 2 no. four bed guest residential units, with a ground floor entrance lobby & living room extension to north. Works to include amendments to all elevations. Amendments to the existing courtyard wall to include the reopening of a former entrance archway, which includes demolition of an outhouse connected to Building A and associated remedial works. The installation of individual waste water treatment units and surface water disposal works for each of the 5 no. residential units in the complex. Reopening of existing closed up entrance of laneway to serve Building A, with associated new section of driveway. Revision of existing driveway to form access to Building D with new section of driveway and new opening in garden wall. Landscape works to include restoration & up-grade of existing courtyard, and enclosures to each unit, with associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/19993/0 - 18 Apr 2019, Louth County Council 19304: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. Retention permission for a domestic garage to side of existing dwelling.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/19304/0 - 4 Jan 2019, Louth County Council 195: Conditional. Retention, 2 homes. Retention and permission for a development to consist of the construction of a single storey extension to the side of a dwelling house and for associated site works and the retention development consists of (1) the retention of a covered area between the house and the boiler house and (2) the retention of a porch to the front of the dwelling house. *Significant Further Information Received on 26/06/2019*. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/195/0 - 13 Nov 2018, Louth County Council 18922: N/a. Retention, 2 homes. Retention permission and permission for a development to consist of the construction of a single storey extension to the side of a dwelling house and for associated siteworks and the retention of (1) the retention of a covered area between the house and the boilerhouse, and (2) the retention of a porch to the front of the dwellinghouse.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/18922/0 - 18 Oct 2018, Louth County Council 18842: N/a. Retention. The development will consist of the construction of a single storey extension to the side of a dwellinghouse and for associated siteworks, and retention development consists of (1) the retention of a covered area between the house and the boilerhouse, and (2) the retention of a porch to the front of dwellinghouse.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/18842/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Williamstown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LH015-051: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLH015-051----. Located on a rise in a gently undulating landscape. This feature is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 55m) with a central mound on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a ‘Fort’, and as a circular hachured feature (diam. of base c. 45m) with a crescent-shaped feature (dims c. 45m ENE-WSW; c. 15m NNW-SSE) attached to the N on the 1907 edition. It is still extant and was first reported by Barry Fitzgibbon of the Forest Service. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 May 2021 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Williamstown House, country house, 1855–1865, Regional interest, registry number 13901511, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LH®no=13901511. Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, built 1856-60. L-plan, single-bay three-storey over basement return to north, broken pedimented breakfront over projecting portico to south, lean-to single-storey return to north-east. Hipped slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, smooth rendered ruled-and-lined corbelled chimneystacks, stone caps and clay pots; projecting eaves on chequer-set brackets, painted timber soffit supporting moulded cast-iron gutters, circular cast-iron downpipes. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walling to ground and first floor, smooth rendered channelled basement, ashlar limestone plinth and stringcourse between ground and first floors, ashlar limestone rock-faced quoins to basement, channelled quoins ground floor, vertical banded quoins to first floor; random rubble stone walling to basement, north; family crest to tympanum of pediment, south. Segmental-headed windows openings to basement, vermiculated block-and-start rendered surrounds, rock-faced limestone keystones, limestone sills, multiple-pane metal casement windows; square-headed openings to ground floor, limestone sills over moulded panel, smooth rendered surround console brackets to limestone cornice, painted timber one-over-ones sliding sash windows; basket-arched openings to first floor, limestone sills over recessed panels, roll-moulded smooth rendered surrounds, painted timber two-over-two sliding sash windows; Wyatt window to breakfront, tooled limestone surround comprising panelled pilaster, console brackets, frieze and cornice, painted timber sliding sash windows; simple Wyatt windows to north elevation central return, tooled limestone mullions and surround, painted timber fixed windows with margin-lights. Tooled limestone entrance portico to south comprising paired Ionic columns flanked by Doric piers supporting frieze and dentil cornice, rounded carved detailing to roof of portico; round-headed door opening, moulded surround, console keystone, flanking Doric pilasters, round-headed sidelights in turn with flanking pilasters, egg-and-dart and dentil cornice; timber double doors with four decorative raised-and-fielded panels, etched glass fanlight; flight of stone steps to entrance flanked by tooled limestone vermiculated blocks. Enclosed yard to north bounded by random rubble stone wall containing ranges of brick and stone outbuildings. Walled garden to north-east, remains of glass house and gardener's house to north-east corner. Three-bay single-storey gate lodge to south-west, central canted entrance bay, hipped roof (slates missing) painted timber bargeboards, smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walling. Elaborate wrought-iron gates flanked by squared smooth rendered piers, pyramidal caps and iron railings. - Williamstown House, farmyard complex, 1840–1880, Regional interest, registry number 13901512, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LH®no=13901512. Ranges of brick and stone former outbuildings, built c. 1860, now in domestic use. Multiple ranges of one- and two-storey buildings incorporating multiple-bay two-storey house to north-west, extension to south elevation south range. Pitched slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, limestone verge coping to gables, ashlar limestone and red brick bellcote to southern gable of house, red brick corbelled chimneystacks, cast-iron gutters to overhanging eaves, circular cast-iron downpipes. Random coursed stone and red brick laid in Flemish bond walling. Square-headed window openings, tooled stone sills, red brick surrounds, mix of painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows and timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening to west elevation of house, red brick surround, four tooled limestone steps to door, painted vertically-sheeted timber door; square-headed door openings to ranges, red brick surrounds, painted timber vertically-sheeted doors, some doors to first floor; segmental-headed carriage arches to north and east ranges, blocked segmental-arched opening to east. Square-profile gate piers to east, wrought-iron gates, lead to yard to east containing single-storey ranges to south and west, circular stone structure on base with conical slate roof and square-headed openings. Outbuildings located to south-east of Williamstown House. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Williamstown, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3035, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3035.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/louth/williamstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/louth/williamstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/louth/williamstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Williamstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth: https://everytownland.com/louth.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bolies: https://everytownland.com/louth/bolies.md - Braganstown: https://everytownland.com/louth/braganstown.md - Greenmount: https://everytownland.com/louth/greenmount.md - Kilsaran: https://everytownland.com/louth/kilsaran.md - Mullincross: https://everytownland.com/louth/mullincross.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/louth/williamstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/louth/williamstown