Philipstown

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Philipstown, from 60 m² to 138,867 m² (13.89 ha, 34.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 48 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 Philipstown 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.

• 7 Jul 2021Conditional

  Permission for development that will consist of a two storey detached house, install a waste water treatment system with percolation area, detached dormer outbuilding consisting of home office and domestic storage space & all associated site works. *Significant Further Information received on 04/10/2021 *

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21832

• 23 Nov 2018Conditional

  Extension of Duration - Permission for the demolition of an existing one and a half storey/dormer type dwelling house and the reconstruction of a new 2-storey dwelling house, a waste water treatment system, a new site entrance with front boundary walls and all associated site works

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18960

• 23 Jan 2017Conditional

  Permission for a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area and associated site development works. *Significant Further Information submitted 11th September 2017*

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 1729

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 Philipstown.

Recorded monuments

• LH006-007001 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 Site of ringfort (diam. c. 36m), now only visible as earthen bank (Wth 5.5m, H c. 0.3m internally, 2.4m externally) from NW-E-ENE. Possible souterrain (LH006-007002-) in interior.

• LH006-007002 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 Local tradition of a 'cave' associated with ringfort (LH006-007001-).

• LH006-008 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 Site of ringfort (diam. c. 31m) enclosed by earthen bank (Wth 7m, H 0.2m internally, 2.5m externally) visible only from NW-N-E-ESE. Bank replaced by modern field fence at WNW.

• LH006-014001 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 Grass-covered rectangular structure (max. dims. c. 36m by 15m). Possible doorway on W side. Local tradition of burials at site. (CLAJ 1929, 60; CLAJ 1941, 23)

• LH006-014002 Graveyard
  Description

  Rectangular graveyard (map dims. c. 120m E-W; c. 40m N-S) with church (LH006-014001-) at NW end. (CLAJ 1929, 60; CLAJ 1941, 23) Compiled by: Claire Breen DAte of upload: 22 November 2011

Architectural heritage

• Philipstown House, house, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built 1886, on a T-shaped plan originally three-bay two-storey on a rectangular plan centred on single-bay two-storey pedimented projecting breakfront; pair of two-bay two-storey returns (south). Vacant, 1901. Occupied, 1911. Hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof (breakfront), pressed or rolled iron ridges, paired yellow brick Running bond central chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on ogee-detailed moulded rendered cornice retaining cast-iron downpipes; hipped slate roofs (south) with pressed or rolled iron ridges, yellow brick Running bond chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on ogee-detailed moulded rendered cornices retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper-covered rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered chamfered plinth with margined rusticated quoins to corners including margined rusticated quoins to corners (breakfront) supporting ogee-detailed moulded rendered pediment; roughcast surface finish (west). Square-headed window openings (breakfront) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and moulded rendered surrounds framing one-over-one (ground floor) or six-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and moulded rendered surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (east) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and moulded rendered surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (west) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with margined rock faced limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having margined rock faced cut-limestone shallow pyramidal capping.

• Barronstown Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1785–1803 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay (three-bay deep) two-storey over basement Church of Ireland glebe house, extant 1803, on a square plan centred on single-bay single-storey advanced porch to ground floor on a bowed plan. Hipped slate roof on a quadrangular plan with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond central chimney stack on axis with ridge with red brick Running bond "wallhead" chimney stack (north) having corbelled stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth with concealed hammered limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening approached by flight of four dragged cut-limestone steps with carved timber lugged surround framing glazed timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed flanking window openings with rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing fixed-pane fittings having lattice glazing bars. Square-headed door opening into farmhouse with glazed timber panelled double doors having sidelights below overlights. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (ground floor) or three-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (side elevations) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing three-over-three (basement), six-over-six (ground floor) or three-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with roughcast piers to perimeter having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping supporting looped wrought iron double 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 Philipstown, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2925 (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 Philipstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Philipstown · Baile Philib

Area

1,636,904 m² (163.69 ha, 404.49 acres)

Civil parish

Philipstown (Dundalk Ra), 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

Barronstown, Carrickastuck, Deerpark, Knockagh, Milltown, Rathmore, Shortstone West, Slieve

Placenames

Philipstown 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.