Woodland

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Woodland, from 4 m² to 206,687 m² (20.67 ha, 51.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 29 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1General Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 30 Jan 2026Conditional

  EXTENSION OF DURATION OF 24207 - Permission for revisions to previously permitted development - 21/272 - consisting of the replacement of the previously approved 46 no. 2 storey houses consisting of 20 semi-detached dwelling units and 26 terraced dwelling units to the east, west and south of the site with 51 no. two storey houses comprising 2 no. detached houses, 20 no. semi-detached houses and 29 terraced units. Works will include all associated landscaping and site development works on a site of 1.25 hectares *Significant Further Information Received on 16/04/2025 - omission of 2 detached dwellings, 2 Additional Semi Detached*

  Extension of duration · Louth County Council, 2613

• 20 Dec 2024Conditional

  Planning Permission for a proposed single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house, including a new side porch and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460809

• 22 Nov 2024Conditional

  Permission for revisions to previously permitted development - 21/272 - consisting of the replacement of the previously approved 46 no. 2 storey houses consisting of 20 semi-detached dwelling units and 26 terraced dwelling units to the east, west and south of the site with 51 no. two storey houses comprising 2 no. detached houses, 20 no. semi-detached houses and 29 terraced units. Works will include all associated landscaping and site development works on a site of 1.25 hectares *Significant Further Information Received on 16/04/2025 - omission of 2 detached dwellings, 2 Additional Semi Detached*

  Permission, 51 homes · Louth County Council, 24207

• 9 Aug 2024Conditional

  Planning Permission to remove two chimneys on the existing dwelling house, one chimney to the front elevation and one to the rear and associated site works at Woodland, Dunleer, County Louth A92 XD83

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2460453

• 15 Mar 2021Conditional

  Permission for a development consisting of 53 no. dwellings which includes 24 no. two storey semi-detached houses, 28 no. two storey terraced houses, 1 no. detached house, car parking, and all associated site development works *Significant Further Information submitted 13/10/2021 - which states the total number of units is 50 ('A' - 19 no. 4 bed semi detached, 'A1' 3 no. 4 bed semi detached, 'B' 16 no. 3 bed terrace and 'C' 12 no. 2 bed terrace*

  Permission, 53 homes · Louth County Council, 21272

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 Woodland.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Woodland.

Architectural heritage

• Woodpark, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1880. Hipped roofed porch to south, conservatory to west, garage to north-east. Hipped slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, smooth rendered corbelled chimneystacks, uPVC gutters on overhanging eaves. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walling, rendered plinth and block-and-start quoins. Square-headed window openings, tooled limestone sills, painted timber one-over-one sliding sash windows, moulded rendered cornice on corbels to ground floor windows, square-headed window opening to west, round-headed central light, flanked by five-panel sidelights. Square-headed door opening, painted timber carved door surround, painted timber door with six raised-and-fielded panels, plain-glazed overlight, tooled limestone entrance steps. Situated in mature landscaped grounds with outbuildings, currently undergoing conversion to accommodation to west, avenue to south-east leading to road bounded by trees, random coursed piers and walling to entrance.

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 Woodland.

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

Name

Woodland · Talamh na Coille

Area

604,804 m² (60.48 ha, 149.45 acres)

Civil parish

Dunleer, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

Electoral division

Dunleer, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunleer electoral division: 3,270 people in 1,088 households; 74% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Athclare, Drumin, Dunleer, Hammondstown, Hammondstown, Shamrockhill, Windmill

Placenames

Woodland 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.