Willistown

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.

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.

• 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.

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).

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3073 (ZIP).

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

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

Census 2022

Drumcar electoral division: 1,415 people in 487 households; 85% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Adamstown, Corstown, Drumcar, Finvoy, Maine

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. 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.