Banktown

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Banktown, from 63 m² to 441,907 m² (44.19 ha, 109.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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.

• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential Phase 1 (New/proposed residential)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 15 Oct 2025Conditional

  Permission for a two-storey extension to the side an existing two-storey dwelling, a garden exercise room, an outdoor swimming resistance wave pool, additional surface water drainage and a replacement wastewater treatment plant and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560653

• 13 Mar 2019Conditional

  Permission for the following: The change of use of an existing residential dwelling to a short term let property. No works are proposed.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 19184

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Boyne Coast and Estuary SAC 001957
• Special Protection Area: Boyne Estuary SPA 004080
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Boyne Coast And Estuary 001957

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Banktown.

Architectural heritage

• Braghan Bridge, bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch bridge, built c. 1800, carrying road between Drogheda and Termonfeckin over river. Random coursed limestone walling, partially rendered, round-headed arches, ashlar voussoirs, V-shaped cutwaters, parapet wall rises to a pitch.

• Baldoyle Cottage, hospital/infirmary, 1825–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey with attic thatched house, built c. 1830. Rectangular-plan, flat-roofed porch to south and single-storey extension to north; two-bay single-storey former outbuilding attached to north by flat-roofed block, now in use as part of house, with gabled porch to west and flat-roofed extension to north. Hipped straw thatched roof, pitched to north block, painted timber sheeted ridges, straw ridge to west porch; red brick corbelled chimneystacks with concrete aprons, painted smooth rendered flat capped chimneystack with concrete aprons to north gable north block; uPVC gutters to extensions. Lime-washed walling; red brick walls to south house, mud walls to north house; battered plinth; painted roughcast-rendered walling to south porch; painted smooth rendered walling to extensions. Square-headed window openings, smooth rendered soffits and reveals, painted stone sills, uPVC windows. Square-headed door openings, uPVC door with painted timber vertically-sheeted insert to south porch, timber half-door to north porch. Plaque to interior of porch reads "VIIth JUNE MDCCCXXXV BY RC. Set back from road, concrete shed to north originally built as air raid shelter, view of river to south, garden on all sides, bounded from road by hedges, entrance to south-west having painted smooth rendered flat-capped piers with cast-iron finials.

• Baldoyle, barn, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey stone corn shed, built c. 1860. Hipped slate roof, clay ridge and hip tiles, gabled timber ventilators with clay roofs to ridge, half-round uPVC gutters on corbelled red brick eaves course, missing in places. Coursed rubble stone walling. Square-headed window openings to north elevation, block-and-start brick jambs with flat-arched brick lintels, remains of timber framed windows; loop-windows with block-and-start brick jambs. Square-headed door openings, block-and-start brick jambs with flat-arched brick lintels, painted timber vertically-sheeted doors. Segmental-headed opening to north, block-and-start brick jambs with gauged brick archivolt, painted timber-sheeted double doors. Set to south side of concrete yard, corrugated-iron outbuildings to north, single-storey house to south-west; Braghan Bridge to north-east.

• House, 1800–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built, c. 1830. Rectangular-plan, shallow bow window to west, flat-roofed extension and portico to east. Hipped thatched roof with scallop pinnings, scalloping to ridge, smooth rendered and red brick chimneystacks with concrete aprons, half-round uPVC gutters. Painted smooth rendered walling, painted brick courses ad stone cladding to extension. Square-headed window openings, painted sills, aluminium replacement windows, painted timber casement window to bow. Painted concrete portico with square-headed door opening, painted timber and glass door with sidelight; aluminium sliding doors to west. Set along narrow lane, house on height over road, accessed by steps with smooth rendered walling with balustrade to east and south-east, garden to west, outbuilding to south with pitched corrugated-iron roof, painted stone walls.

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 Banktown, 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3173 (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 Banktown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Banktown · Baile an Bhainc

Area

780,292 m² (78.03 ha, 192.81 acres)

Civil parish

Beaulieu, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

Electoral division

St. Peter's, the unit of the census

Census 2022

10,951 people lived in 3,492 households in the St. Peter's electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 53% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydonnell, Beaulieu, Beltichburne, Braghan

Placenames

Banktown 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.