Petestown

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Petestown, from 2,655 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres) to 116,849 m² (11.68 ha, 28.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Petestown 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.

• 13 Nov 2024Refused

  PERMISSION FOR A DWELLING HOUSE, A DOMESTIC GARAGE, A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2460703

• 22 Oct 2024N/a

  PERMISSION FOR A DWELLING HOUSE, A DOMESTIC GARAGE, A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2460645

• 11 Dec 2020Conditional

  Permission for a development that will consist of a new garage/shed to existing dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 201081

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 Petestown.

Recorded monuments

• LH008-081 Earthwork
  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 Marked as 'fort' on 1835 ed. of OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace.

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey lime-washed farmhouse, built c. 1780. Rectangular-plan, three-bay two-storey main block, single-bay single-storey with attic block to west, lean-to porch to south, corrugated-iron roofed extension to south. Pitched slate roofs, clay ridge tiles, red brick corbelled chimneystacks, tooled limestone verge copings, cast-iron gutters on overhanging eaves. Lime-washed walling. Square-headed window openings, painted stone sills, painted timber two-over-two sliding sash windows exposed sliding sash cases to first floor; painted timber casement window to north. Square-headed door opening, painted timber door with obscured glass panel. Outbuildings to south and south-east, corrugated-iron roofs, lime-washing walling, square-headed openings, corrugated-iron doors. Situated with rear to road, house forming one side of yard with outbuildings, lane running northwards to road bounded to west by lime-washed random coursed stone wall, square gate piers with pyramidal caps.

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

At the centre of the townland of Petestown, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Petestown.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Petestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Petestown · Baile Pheití

Area

242,961 m² (24.3 ha, 60.04 acres)

Civil parish

Carlingford, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Lower

Electoral division

Greenore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,250 people lived in 430 households in the Greenore electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardtully Beg, Ardtully More, Galtrimsland, Grange Old, Monksland, Rath Lower

Placenames

Petestown 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.