Willistown
Townland in the civil parish of Drumcar, barony of Ardee, Co. Louth; in Irish Baile Bhuilí
- Area
- 127.1 ha
- 314 acres
- Land parcels
- 59
- registered freehold, median 2,701 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Willistown, from 50 m² to 185,469 m² (18.55 ha, 45.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Willistown 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
12 Dec 2025Conditional
Permission for a new waste water treatment system and percolation area to serve existing dwelling, decommission existing septic tank and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560806
10 Jul 2024Conditional
Planning permission for an extension to the front/side of the existing dwelling house which will also include an attached family flat/independent living accommodation, new treatment system and polishing filter percolation area and all associated site development works. *Significant Further Information received on 04/12/2024 which includes permission for extension/alterations of the site boundaries to that granted under planning file ref. 90/69**
Permission · Louth County Council, 2460393
13 Jul 2022Conditional
Retention permission for side car port and rear extension to dwelling house. Permission for side and rear extension including alterations to front and west side elevation of existing dwelling, internal alterations, relocation of site entrance and all associated site works
Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 22556
22 Feb 2022Conditional
EXTENSION OF DURATION OF 16902 - Permission for development will consist of conversion and restoration of existing two-storey building (former stables, store and games room) to two units comprising of self catering accommodation, installation of two individual proprietary waste water treatment system together with associated site development works
Extension of duration, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22136
15 Dec 2020N/a
Permission for development that will consist of a new single storey dwelling, associated detached single car garage, opening of a new vehicular entrance to site and wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site development works
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 201104
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 Willistown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Willistown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Willistown.
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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Willistown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Willistown · Baile Bhuilí
- Area
- 1,270,520 m² (127.05 ha, 313.95 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumcar, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ardee
- Electoral division
- Drumcar, the unit of the census
- Placenames
- Willistown on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.