Tankardsrock

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tankardsrock, from 59 m² to 333,727 m² (33.37 ha, 82.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Tankardsrock 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 May 2025Conditional

  Retention of an unauthorised development & proposed alterations consisting of an existing digital scoreboard and associated 2 no. mounting columns at Donaghmore, Kilkerley, Dundalk, Co. Louth.

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2560270

• 2 Aug 2024N/a

  Retention permission for an unauthorised development consisting of an existing digital scoreboard and associated 2 no. mounting columns

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2460441

• 8 Feb 2024Conditional

  Permission for development for 1) Two-storey extension incorporating first floor balcony to south side of existing club house 2) Single storey main entrance porch extension to west side of existing club house 3) New parapet wall around perimeter of existing club house 4) Alterations to elevations of existing club house 5) Internal alterations to existing club house layout 6) Demolition of existing storage shed & existing footing at south side of existing carpark 7) Demolition of existing shelter frame at north side of main pitch 8) All associated site works. Retention of an unauthorised development consisting of existing single storey exterior toilet building

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2460068

• 22 Jul 2019Conditional

  Permission for a machinery storage shed and boundary wall.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19584

• 27 Jun 2019N/a

  Permission for a machinery storage shed and boundary wall.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 19510

• 10 Jun 2019N/a

  Permission for a machinery storage shed and boundary wall.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 19441

• 31 May 2019Conditional

  Retention permission for an existing domestic garage/shed.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19417

• 18 Apr 2018Conditional

  Permission for the retention of an existing timber building, temporarily as a residence during the course of construction and permanently as a shed and planning permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation areas and all associated site development works. *Significant Further Information received on 25/02/2019 provided for, inter alia, an amended vehicular access*

  Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 18283

• 23 Mar 2018N/a

  Retention & permission for development consisting of the retention of an existing timber building, temporarily as a residence during the course of construction and permanently as a shed and planning permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation areas and all associated site development works.

  Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 18221

• 13 Mar 2018N/a

  PERMISSION for development consisting of the RETENTION of an existing timber building, temporarily as a residence during the course of construction and permanently as a shed and planning permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation areas and all associated site development works.

  Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 18188

• 24 Nov 2017Conditional

  Permission for retention of development consisting of a machinery storage shed. **SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION RECEIVED 16/10/2018 consisting of revisions to the vehicular access from the local teritary road L-71283-0**

  Retention · Louth County Council, 17870

• 9 Oct 2017N/a

  Permission for retention of development consisting of a machinery storage shed.

  Retention · Louth County Council, 17757

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 Tankardsrock.

Recorded monuments

• LH006-037 Cist
  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 Short cist, rectangular in shape, with single slabs for capstone and floor. The cist was aligned E-W and contained a bowl food vessel and some partly cremated bone (CLAJ 1910, 325; Praehistoriche Zeitschrift 1911, 185; JRSAI 1970, 123). The cist was reconstructed in the avenue bank of Dun Dealgan Motte (LH007-118007-).

• LH007-029 Souterrain
  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 Drystone-built souterrain consisting of short section of passage terminating in a beehive chamber (CLAJ 1964, 320). Now inaccessible.

• LH007-030 Ringfort - rath
  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 Oval platform area (int. dims. c. 39m E-W, 33m N-S) enclosed by a much degraded earthen bank, now reduced to a scarp (H 2.3-3m). The scarp has traces of a drystone facing, but it is unclear whether this is ancient. Rock-cut fosse (Wth 5.5m, D 1.3m) at base of platform at W-NW. Probable ancient entrance at E represented by a depression (Wth 3.4m) in the scarp.

• LH007-031 Standing stone
  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 Standing stone buried in adjacent hole early in twentieth century. (CLAJ 1964, 361)

• LH007-032 Standing stone
  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 Standing stone recorded as having stood at this location was buried in an adjacent hole early in the twentieth century (CLAJ 1964, 361).

• LH007-102 Rock art
  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 Slightly sloping rock plateau with two cup and ring motifs, one of which has radial grooves running from the central cup. Some of these grooves may be natural fissures or old plough marks. The other motif has an adjacent curving line. (CLAJ 1982, 110)

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tankardsrock.

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 Tankardsrock, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2961 (ZIP).

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

Name

Tankardsrock · Carraig an Tancardaigh

Area

1,346,871 m² (134.69 ha, 332.82 acres)

Civil parish

Castletown, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Acarreagh, Donaghmore, Newtownbalregan, Plaster, Rathmore

Placenames

Tankardsrock 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.