Gunstown

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gunstown, from 328 m² to 80,125 m² (8.01 ha, 19.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Gunstown 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.

• 17 Dec 2021Conditional

  permission to construct 4 no. poultry houses together with roofed/enclosed service yard, 1 no. office, 1 no. generator store and 1 no. bin/general purpose store, along with all ancillary structures (to include gas storage tanks, 3 no. soilded water tanks, 4 no. meal storage bins and the provision of an on-site waste water treatment system and percolation area) and associated site works (to include new/upgraded site entrance and internal laneway, and provision for 4 no. passing bays on the local public road) associated with the development. This application relates to a development which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Requlations 1994to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been submitted with this planning application

  Permission · Louth County Council, 211499

• 23 Oct 2020Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a two storey dwelling house, a single storey domestic garage, single storey stables with paddock, a new vehicular entrance off public road, installation of a waste water treatment system/percolation area and boundary treatments including all associated site works *Significant Further Information submitted 27/01/21*

  Permission, 3 homes · Louth County Council, 20877

• 18 Oct 2019N/a

  Outline permission for 3 no. dwelling houses, waste water treatment system and percolation area to each house, and access lane to sites.

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19860

• 17 Jun 2019Refused

  Permission to construct 4 no. poultry houses together with roofed/enclosed service yard, 1 no. office, 1 no. generator store and 1 no. bin/general purpose store along with all ancillary structures (to include gas storage tanks, 3 no. soiled water tanks, 4 no. meal storage bins and the provision of an on-site waste water treatment system and percolation area) and associated site works (to include new/upgraded site entrance and internal laneway) associated with the above development. This application relates to a development which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) has been submitted with this planning application.*Significant Further Information submitted 11/2/2020 which provides for revised entrance details to facilitate sightlines & 4 no. passing bays on public road*

  Permission · Louth County Council, 19469

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 Gunstown.

Recorded monuments

• LH018-039 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 Defaced circular enclosure (max. dims. 58m N-S, 52m E-W) with either one or two earthen banks (CLAJ 1910, 287). No visible trace.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gunstown, about 1 in 20 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 Gunstown.

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

Name

Gunstown · Baile Gun

Area

631,163 m² (63.12 ha, 155.96 acres)

Civil parish

Mosstown, and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Dunleer, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Castlelumny, Corlisbane, Rathescar Middle, Rathescar South, Whiteriver, Woodhouse

Placenames

Gunstown 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.