Mosstown North

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mosstown North, from 43 m² to 123,957 m² (12.4 ha, 30.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Mosstown North 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.

• 21 Sept 2026N/a

  Permission for the following: 1. Extension to existing graveyard. 2. creation of overflow car parking area and all Associated site development works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2660647

• 22 Dec 2025Conditional

  Permission for an extension and alterations to existing dwelling house and associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 25186

• 1 Nov 2022N/a

  Permission for alterations to a previously granted planning application ref. no. 17/856 "Permission for construction of a new storey and a half style dwelling house, using existing agricultural entrance onto public road. Install new waste water treatment plant and percolation area (demolish existing septic tank & percolation area and relocate to adjoining site under separate planning application) all site works and ancillary works in accordance with the plans and information" the alterations comprise of the removal of the shared entrance and permission for a private entrance to service the dwelling and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22860

• 4 Oct 2022Refused

  EXTENSION OF DURATION OF 17/856: Permission for construction of a new story and a half style dwelling house, using existing agricultural entrance onto public road. Install new waste water treatment plant and percolation area (demolish existing septic tank & percolation area and relocate to adjoining site under separate planning application) all site works and ancillary works in accordance with the plans and information. **SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION RECEIVED 22/3/2018 to allow for the retention and completion of domestic garage, realign site entrance to share existing site entrance to adjacent dwelling, minor alterations to dwelling design and all ancillary site works**

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22783

• 16 Oct 2020Conditional

  Permission for dwelling house, detached garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20840

• 29 May 2019Conditional

  Retention permission is sought for site boundaries and as constructed dwelling house and all associated site works in relation to permission granted ref. no. 75523.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19408

• 17 Nov 2017Conditional

  Permission to decommission/demolish existing septic tank and relocate/install new waste water treatment plant and percolation area, relocation of site boundary, all site works and ancillary works in accordance with the attached plans and information.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17855

• 17 Nov 2017Conditional

  Permission for construction of a new story and a half style dwelling house, using existing agricultural entrance onto public road. Install new waste water treatment plant and percolation area (demolish existing septic tank & percolation area and relocate to adjoining site under separate planning application) all site works and ancillary works in accordance with the plans and information. **SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION RECEIVED 22/3/2018 to allow for the retention and completion of domestic garage, realign site entrance to share existing site entrance to adjacent dwelling, minor alterations to dwelling design and all ancillary site works**

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17856

• 6 Jun 2017Conditional

  Permission for development to consist of existing pitched roof entrance canopy & replacement with new two storey flat roof porch extension & canopy to front of existing two storey detached dwelling, and new roof light to existing front roof pitch.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17423

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 Mosstown North.

Recorded monuments

• LH018-025 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 Roughly circular raised area (int. dims. 35m E-W, 32.5m N-S) delimited by an earthen bank (Wth 2.2m at top; H 2.1m externally, 0.5m internally). Wide (3m) external fosse, recut in parts to form a modern ditch. Entrance with causeway across fosse at W, probably ancient. The site is located on a slight E-W ridge in a tree plantation on demesne lands and may have been adapted at a later date as a tree-ring.

• LH018-026001 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 Church ruinous in 1622, no visible remains (CLAJ 1943, 207-8). A plain font (LH018-026002-) stands at the front door of the modern church (diam. of base 0.41m, H 0.49m, D of basin 0.2m, diam. of basin 0.45m).

• LH018-026002 Font
  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 A plain font situated at the front door of the modern church, which is on the site of an earlier church (LH018-026001-). Diam. of base 0.41m, H 0.49m, D of basin 0.2m, diam. of basin 0.45m.

• LH018-026003 Graveyard
  Description

  Rectangular shaped graveyard (map dims. c. 48m E-W; c. 36m N-S) bounded by roadway to N and E. Present church in NE, which is probably on site of earlier church (LH018-026001-) which was ruinous in 1622. According to the Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts (674, 32) 'there is a very old tombstone, but no one can understand the writing on it, and the date on it is 1019'. This stone could not be found when inspected by ASI in 1967. A number of 18th century gravestones noted, earliest was 1747. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 4 July 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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 Mosstown North, 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 moderately low, low. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Mosstown North · Baile Mhuiris Thuaidh

Area

944,578 m² (94.46 ha, 233.41 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

Knockatober, Lismanus, Marshallrath, Puckstown, Rathescar North

Placenames

Mosstown North 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.