Barronstown

78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barronstown, from 64 m² to 654,606 m² (65.46 ha, 161.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 Barronstown 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.

• 4 Aug 2023Conditional

  Permission for a dwelling house and a detached domestic garage, new site entrance onto public road, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works **Significant further information received on 25.10.23 includes i) Retention permission for groundworks already carried out on site including recontouring of site and removal of roadside hedgerow as approved under Planning Reference 03/1893. ii) Enhanced site landscaping proposal iii) Clarification of water supply source as public main. **

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360268

• 4 Oct 2021Conditional

  Permission consequent on the grant of outline permission reference number 20/115 for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works *Significant Further Information received on 21/03/2022*

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211234

• 18 Feb 2020Conditional

  Outline Permission for development consisting of a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and associated site development works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20115

• 20 Dec 2019N/a

  Outline permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and associated site development works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 191102

• 26 Nov 2019Conditional

  1. Retention for demolition of existing cottage. 2. Retention and permission for completion of cottage, waste water treatment system, new site entrance & all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19978

• 24 Sept 2019N/a

  1. Retention permission for demolition of existing cottage. 2. Retention permission for partial reconstruction of cottage. 3. Permission for completion of cottage and all associated works.

  Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 19780

• 15 Mar 2019Conditional

  Permission for alterations to an existing bungalow dwelling house to include changes to front and side elevations, a first floor extension and raising of existing roof, demolition of existing attached garage and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19192

• 5 Mar 2019Conditional

  Permission for a new dwelling house, wastewater treatment plant and associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19161

• 23 Jan 2019N/a

  Permission for a new dwelling house, wastewater treatment plant and associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 1938

• 17 Dec 2018N/a

  Permission for a new dwelling house and associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 181034

• 3 Aug 2018Conditional

  This development will consist of the following: 1.Refurbishment of existing cottage with new storm porch & new storey and half extension to the rear. 2. Waste water treatment system with all associated site works. *Significant Further Information Received on 28/02/2019*

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18618

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 Barronstown.

Recorded monuments

• LH006-005001 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 area (int. dims. 46m N-S, 34.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (Wth 7m, H 1.1m internally, 2.8m externally) with possible entrance visible as a depression (Wth 3m) in the bank at E. Field enclosing site known as 'Cave Field' (CLAJ 1930, 178). (See also LH006-005002-).

• LH006-005002 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 Situated in ringfort (LH006-005001-). Local tradition of a 'cave' in the 'Cave Field' or 'Kay Field'. (CLAJ 1930, 178)

• LH006-006 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Sub-rectangular mound (max. dims 26m E-W; 15m N-S) with traces of L-shaped platform at W end. Situated in field known as 'Castle Field' (Jordan 1934, 214). The above 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: 17 July 2007

• LH006-009 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 Situated in a haggard, on a slight natural rise. The souterrain was discovered during the construction of an out-house. It appears to have consisted of a section of drystone-built passage (H 1.4m, Wth 1m) extending ENE-WSW. Length of passage is indeterminate owing to collapse.

• LH006-010 Church
  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 Rectangular platform (max. dims 19m NW-SE; 17m NE-SW), with rectangular area (max. dims 15m NW-SE; 11m NE-SW) defined by bank in NW quadrant with rectangular mound (max. dims 9.5m NW-SE; 2.5m NE-SW) in centre. Probably remains of an early church. (CLAJ 1930, 178; CLAJ 1941, 14)

• LH006-013 Castle - motte
  Description

  A circular flat-topped mound (diam. c. 19m; H c. 2m) enclosed by a fosse (max. Wth 11m at rim, 6m at base, D c. 0.8m). It is sited on the summit of an E-W ridge, has steep sides and has a modern revetment wall built up against its base. The NE side of the mound appears to have been scarped in relatively recent times, probably at the time of the building of the revetment wall. There is no evidence for a bailey. The above 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 revision: 26 April, 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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 Barronstown, 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

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

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

Name

Barronstown · Baile Bharúin

Area

2,077,182 m² (207.72 ha, 513.28 acres)

Civil parish

Barronstown, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Barronstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

752 people lived in 255 households in the Barronstown electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinurd, Balrobin, Carrickastuck, Clonaleenaghan, Cunnicar, Derryfalone, Glebe, Maghereagh, Milltown, Philipstown

Placenames

Barronstown 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.