Beltichburne

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Beltichburne, from 13 m² to 113,566 m² (11.36 ha, 28.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Beltichburne 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.

• 29 Apr 2025Conditional

  Permission for the demolition of a 1960’s single-storey garage structure and the construction of a two-storey over basement and single-storey extension to the side and rear of Beltichburne House, Termonfeckin, Co. Louth. A92 FC93, including the insertion of a single-storey glazed extension in the courtyard. The application also includes modifications to existing house including; replacement of two existing and the addition of two new dormer windows; the replacement of a small non-original dormer with a conservation rooflight, the installation of two additional conservation rooflights; the blocking-up of an existing and the forming of a new door opening at ground floor level on the northeast side elevation (to courtyard); the opening up of two existing blind windows at first floor level on the southwest side elevation; the forming of a new window at first floor level on the northeast elevation; conversion of two first floor bay window roofs to balconies including conversion of two windows to door openings on the southwest side and southeast rear elevations; forming of a new door opening on the northwest wall to the courtyard at ground floor level; forming of a new window opening on the southeast wall to the courtyard at ground floor level; forming of a new door opening on the southeast wall of the store range at ground floor level; the reopening of two blocked-up windows in the first floor of the store range; a new waste water treatment unit and percolation area; landscaping works; and associated ancillary works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560242

• 13 Feb 2024Conditional

  Permission for new single-storey outbuilding in three ranges surrounding a courtyard (purpose ancillary to the maintenance of the house and grounds; including gardening equipment & machinery stores, workshop, gardener’s facilities, general stores, garage, plant rooms and fuel stores) and associated ancillary works. Application includes modifications to existing walled garden including; the demolition of an existing shed; the construction of a new single-storey potting shed; the raising of the height of the walls to approximately 2.4m. Application also includes a new gateway to an agricultural laneway

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2460075

• 24 Jan 2024N/a

  Permission for new single-storey outbuildings, modifications to existing walled garden including the demolition of an existing shed and the construction of a single-storey potting shed, a new gateway to an agricultural laneway and associated ancillary works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2460043

• 23 Jan 2024Conditional

  Permission for a new single-storey dwelling house, wastewater treatment unit & percolation area and associated ancillary works *SFI received on 13.6.24 includes revised site boundary to include new driveway and re-located percolation area.*

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460038

• 10 Apr 2019Conditional

  Retention permission for existing kitchen extension to north east elevation, existing entrance porch to the south west elevation and sitting room to the south east elevation and all associated site works.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19273

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 Beltichburne.

Recorded monuments

• LH025-008 Stone head
  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 Situated on the roof over the entrance to a shell house in the grounds of Beltichburne House. It is a male head carved out of sandstone and wears a bishop's mitre. It has bulging eyes but otherwise a very flat profile with a smiling mouth. It has a roughly-cut stone attached to its back portion, indicating that it has been removed from another building, probably of sixteenth-century date.

Architectural heritage

• Beltichburne House, country house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay two-storey with attic house, built c. 1860. Asymmetrical-plan, central open-bed pediments to north and south elevations, canted bay windows to south and west, conservatory to south elevation. Hipped slate roofs, pitched to east of south elevation, clay lead and hip tiles, red brick chimneystacks with paired corbelled flues on rectangular base with stone cornice, modillion bracketed projecting eaves with sheeted soffit, profiled cast-iron gutters, cast-iron circular downpipes. Red brick Flemish bond walling, ashlar limestone plinth, moulded limestone strings, continuous sill courses and cornices. Square-headed (ground floor, canted bay), segmental-headed (first floors, ground floor pedimented bays, ground floor south elevation) and round-headed (first floor and attic pedimented bays, ground floor west elevation), rubbed brick archivolts, limestone sills, painted timber two-over-two sliding sash windows, four-over-two to first floor round-headed windows, wrought-iron bars to first floor north-elevation. Round-headed door opening to west; segmental-headed stone canopy with roll moulded archivolt, cornice and supported on carved stone console brackets; engaged paired Corinthian colonnettes flanking door supporting stone archivolt; painted timber door with five moulded panels; timber spoked fanlight; limestone threshold and steps to door with flanking wall terminating in limestone square pier with pyramidal cap and recessed circular panels. Dome-roofed circular conservatory to south elevation. Situated in large mature gardens with gravel and paved paths, grape house, red brick wall to south-west corner of house bounding south garden with round-arched gateway, accessed via long avenue from north-west, gate lodge and outbuilding complex to north-west.

• Beltichburne House, outbuilding, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1780, part of a complex of formerly outbuildings attached to Beltichburne demesne, now in private domestic use. Rectangular-plan, single-storey extension to west c. 1960, ten-bay single-storey former stable block attached to south. Suppressed-hipped slate roof to main building, clay hip and ridge tiles, red brick corbelled chimneystack, profiled cast-iron gutters on corbelled eaves course, cast-iron downpipes, pitched slate roof to extension. Painted roughcast-rendered walling. Square-headed window openings, painted smooth rendered soffits and reveals, tooled limestone sills, painted timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six to ground floor, three-over-six to first floor and north elevation, Venetian window to north ground floor east elevation. Square-headed door opening, painted smooth rendered soffit and reveals, painted timber raised and fielded panelled door with door furniture, tripartite overlight. Pitched corrugated-asbestos roof to stable block; painted roughcast-rendered walling; square-headed window openings, painted six-over-six timber sliding sash windows, round-headed window opening to north elevation; round-headed door opening, painted timber door with glass panels and moulded timber bottom panel, wrought-iron sunbeam fanlight; blocked segmental-headed openings to south elevation west. Ranges of single and two-storey outbuildings including coach house, privy block, potting sheds to north around gravel and brick-paved yards, some now converted to domestic use; hipped and pitched slate roofs, some corrugated-iron to northern most yard; painted brick, painted random rubble and unpainted coursed random rubble walling with dressed ashlar quoins; stone coach house with square-headed window openings with red brick jambs and lintels and timber sliding sash windows, exposed box sliding sash windows to privy block; variety of painted timber vertically-sheeted doors to outbuildings. Complex located to north-west of Beltichburne; orchards and fields to north and north-west with red brick walling; garden to south bounded by tooled ashlar stone plinth wall with cast-iron railing, piers with finials and gates; site bounded to west by random coursed stone wall, circular gate piers to north and south of house, wrought-iron gates; lanes running north-south and east-west around complex.

• Beltichburne House, gate lodge, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey red brick former gate lodge, built c. 1860, now in private domestic use. Apsidal porch to west, extension to east. Hipped slate roof, clay ridge tiles, central red brick and limestone corbelled chimneystack, overhanging eaves with painted rendered soffit and carved timber eaves boards, uPVC gutters. Red brick Flemish bond walling, tooled limestone plinth. Round-headed window openings to flat-arched recesses, painted carved timber surrounds, tooled stone sills supported by corbels, painted one-over-one timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening, tooled limestone lintel, painted timber three-panel double doors, dressed limestone threshold. Located to north-west of main house, surrounded by mature grounds, cast-iron lamp standard to west; gateway to west having cast-iron gates and piers flanked by cast-iron railings on tooled limestone plinth terminating in tooled limestone piers with chamfered corners and limestone and cast-iron caps, cut stone carriage stops inside gates.

• Beltichburne Cottage, house, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey house, built c. 1830. Gabled slightly projecting porch to centre of main block, two-storey pitched roof wing to west with gable facing south, other buildings to north-west not seen. Hipped slate roof to main building, pitched to wing, clay hip and ridge tiles, unpainted smooth rendered chimneystacks with corbelled caps and yellow terracotta cylindrical pots, moulded cast-iron gutters on projecting eaves, painted timber bargeboards to west wing. Painted roughcast rendered walling, painted smooth rendered walling to porch, V-jointed tooled ashlar limestone quoins to porch. Square-headed window openings, painted stone sills, painted timber two-over-two sliding sash windows, tripartite to east and west sides of porch, six-over-six to west wing. Elliptical-headed entrance door opening, projecting moulded surround, painted timber door with seven raised-and-fielded panels, narrow plain-glazed sidelights, sunburst fanlight. Set in landscaped grounds, gravel driveway approaching from south-west, gravel forecourt, lawns to south; three-bay hipped roof, painted rendered gate lodge; painted roughcast gate sweep walls, concrete saddle-back coping, square ashlar limestone piers with pyramidal caps, hoop-topped flat bar wrought-iron gates.

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 Beltichburne, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3172 (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 Beltichburne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Beltichburne · Baile Tichburne

Area

789,963 m² (79 ha, 195.2 acres)

Civil parish

Beaulieu, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

Electoral division

St. Peter's, the unit of the census

Census 2022

10,951 people lived in 3,492 households in the St. Peter's electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 53% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinreask, Ballydonnell, Banktown, Beaulieu, Canonstown, Newtownstalaban

Placenames

Beltichburne 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.