Carrickmullan

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrickmullan, from 246 m² to 316,717 m² (31.67 ha, 78.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Carrickmullan 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.

• 14 Mar 2023Conditional

  Permission to rehabilitate a discrete section of the Carrickrobin Stream to enhance its salmonid bearing potential and increase its biodiversity value. Works, which will be undertaken to assist in its rehabilitation will include: Disconnecting a 50m long 500mm diameter concrete pipe (culvert) from the Carrickrobin Stream and replacing with a 25m 1100mm PTFE pipe to aid fish passage and provide 54m of new open stream with riffles pools and glides. This new channel will be reconnected into the existing river channel at the roadside culvert. Bank revetment and instream morphology using ecological engineering techniques will be incorporated in the new channel. Fencing of channel and providing livestock with alternative drinking sources, Selective tree pruning

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2360039

• 3 Feb 2023N/a

  Permission to rehabilitate a discrete section of the Carrickrobin Stream to enhance its salmonid bearing potential and increase its biodiversity value. Works, which will be undertaken to assist in its rehabilitation will include: Disconnecting a 50m long 500mm diameter concrete pipe (culvert) from the Carrickrobin Stream and replacing with a 25m 1100mm PTFE pipe to aid fish passage and provide 54m of new open stream with riffles pools and glides. This new channel will be reconnected into the existing river channel at the roadside culvert. Bank revetment and instream morphology using ecological engineering techniques will be incorporated in the new channel. Fencing of channel and providing livestock with alternative drinking sources Selective tree pruning

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2360010

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 Carrickmullan.

Recorded monuments

• LH006-078 Burial ground
  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 Rocky knoll known as 'Carnacleggan' - 'Rock of the Skulls'. No visible remains of any monument.

• LH006-079 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 Isolated souterrain, consisting of curving passage leading to a second passage at right angles. The second passage appears to have curved sharply, terminating in a bulbous sub-rectangular chamber. Access via a creep in this chamber to a further two beehive chambers. No further details available. Survey by E. Rynne, 1966. Inacessible.

• LH006-080 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 a few hundred yards from Ash Big Motte (LH006-073001-). Inaccessible. (CLAJ 1904, 3).

• LH006-081 Enclosure
  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 Cropmark ring indicating sub-circular enclosure (max. diams. c. 38m N-S, c. 35m E-W) on aerial photograph (CUCAP, AYM 34).

• LH006-082001 Enclosure
  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 Circular enclosure defined by a cropmark ring showing on aerial photograph (CUCAP, BDG 98). Possible souterrain (LH006-082002-) in interior.

• LH006-082002 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 'cave' in enclosure (LH006-082001-).

• LH006-083 Enclosure
  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 Sub-circular enclosure (max. dims. c. 42m E-W, c. 38m N-S) showing as cropmark with gap at NE on aerial photograph (CUCAP, BGL 32).

• LH006-084 Enclosure
  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 Cropmark indicating sub-circular enclosure (max. dims. c. 40m N-S, c. 38m E-W) on aerial photograph (CUCAP, ASV 87). Possible gap at E of enclosure.

• LH006-113001 Graveyard
  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 Bones unearthed in field locally known as 'Shankill'. Adjacent field in Ash Big townland reputed to be the site of a church (LH006-113002-). The precise location is not known.

• LH006-113002 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 Local tradition of church known as Shankill and graveyard in the field adjacent to Ash Big motte (LH006-073001-) and the boundary with Carrickmullan where bones were found. No visible surface trace. (See also LH006-113001-). The precise location is not known.

• LH011-010 Enclosure
  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 Cropmarks comprising circular enclosure (max. dims. c. 70m N-S, c. 64m E-W) with inner, roughly wedge-shaped enclosure (max. dims. c. 45m NW-SE, c. 20-32m E-W) showing on aerial photographs (CUCAP, BGL 30, BDG 97).

Architectural heritage

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

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 Carrickmullan, 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

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

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

Name

Carrickmullan · Carraig Mhaoláin

Area

930,379 m² (93.04 ha, 229.9 acres)

Civil parish

Louth, and its townlands

Barony

Louth

Electoral division

Castlering, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,092 people lived in 352 households in the Castlering electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ash Big, Ash Little, Castlering, Grange, Newtown, Palmersland

Placenames

Carrickmullan 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.