Bawntaaffe

101 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bawntaaffe, from 28 m² to 161,986 m² (16.2 ha, 40.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 52 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 Bawntaaffe 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.

• 26 Aug 2026N/a

  Retention permission for the incorporation of veranda into front of existing dwelling, extension to kitchen and domestic shed

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2660577

• 11 Dec 2024Conditional

  Permission for a new waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works to serve existing dwelling house in relation to permission granted ref no. 22770, decommission existing septic tank

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460783

• 25 Jun 2024Conditional

  The development will consist of the following: 1. Retention of existing cottage attached to derelict farm building to the rear of existing restaurant & bar building (ancillary to the existing restaurant & bar). 2. Retention of alterations to existing toilet block of function room as per previously granted permission Ref. No. 17354. 3. Retention of rooflights & roof changes to existing restaurant & bar building. 4. Retention of change of use from storerooms to staff dining on ground floor and staff lounge on first floor to west side of existing restaurant & bar building. 5. Retention of change of use from storerooms & meeting room to offices on first floor to south side of existing restaurant & bar building. 6. Regularisation of elevations to existing restaurant & bar building. 7. All associated site works

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2460349

• 28 Feb 2024Conditional

  1) Retention of existing side extension to dwelling house 2) Change of use of existing domestic garage to family flat, incorporating a connecting annex from the existing garage to the existing dwelling house, and all associated site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460108

• 21 Dec 2023N/a

  The development will consist of the following: 1. Retention of existing cottage attached to derelict farm building to the rear of existing restaurant & bar building. 2. Retention of alterations to existing toilet block of function room as per previously granted permission Ref. No. 17354. 3. Retention of rooflights & roof changes to existing restaurant & bar building. 4. Retention of change of use from storerooms to staff dining on ground floor and staff lounge on first floor to west side of existing restaurant & bar building. 5. Retention of change of use from storerooms & meeting room to offices on first floor to south side of existing restaurant & bar building. 6. Regularisation of elevations to existing restaurant & bar building. 7. All associated site works

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2360552

• 29 May 2023Refused

  Permission for the removal and replacement of an existing 11.3m wooden pole with an 18m monopole carrying antennas, dishes, associated equipment, together with ground-based equipment cabinets and all associated site development works. The development will provide for wireless data and broadband servcies

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23258

• 25 May 2023Conditional

  Permission for a single-storey extension to the side and rear of an existing storey and half dwelling. Removal of two existing chimney stacks, elevational changes including external wall insulation, alterations to existing fenestration arrangement and provision of new windows and doors. Site works to include new surface water soakaways. Sig FI received on 16/08/2023 provided for, inter alia, an upgrade to the WWTS.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360120

• 5 May 2023N/a

  Permission for the removal and replacement of an existing 11.3m wooden pole with an 18m monopole carrying antennas, dishes, associated equipment together with ground-based equipment cabinets and all associated site development works. The development will provide for wireless data and broadband services

  Permission · Louth County Council, 23227

• 28 Sept 2022Conditional

  Permission for rear extension to existing dwelling including taking down existing front porch, relocation of front entrance door, alterations to existing elevations, internal alterations and revised site boundaries and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22770

• 7 Oct 2021Refused

  Permission for development that will consist of construction of a single storey dwelling with waste water treatment system and all associated site development works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211254

• 7 Jul 2021Conditional

  EXTENSION OF DURATION*** Ref 16292 Permission for development will consist of the following: 1. Construction of new extension to rear of existing restaurant building comprising of a new function room, service bar and corridors. 2. Construction of new reception entrance and corridor to east side of existing "Sarsfield Room" at front of existing building. 3. Demolition of existing dwelling, the renovation, reconstruction, extension & change of use of existing derelict farmyard buildings to rear of existing restaurant building to provide 16 no. en-suite hotel guest bedrooms with new landscaping to existing courtyard enclosure. 4. Construction of new detached building containing 4 no. ensuite hotel guest bedrooms to east side of existing farmyard buildings. 5. Provision of additional carparking. 6. Upgrading of existing storm water drainage system. 7. Upgrading of existing wastewater trestment plant & percolation area. 8. All associated site works

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21833

• 13 Nov 2020Conditional

  Retention permission for an existing dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, vehicular entrance onto public road and all associated site development works (previously granted planning permission under file ref. no. 031073). *Significant Further Information received on 26/04/2021 which includes: new treatment system, polishing filter and soakaway design*

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20958

• 7 Oct 2019Conditional

  Permission for 77.6m2 detached domestic garage to the side of existing dwelling including all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19821

• 12 May 2017Conditional

  Retention and permission for development consisting of the following: 1. Contruction of new first floor extension to incorporate a fire escape stairs to comply with granted fire safety certificate ref. FSC/2016/0138 along the R132 road on the west elevation of the existing building. 2. Retention of toilet block to previously granted function room ref. 16292. 3. All associated site works.

  Retention · Louth County Council, 17354

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 Bawntaaffe.

Recorded monuments

• LH021-030 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 Discovered during road-widening in 1959. Situated on lower W slopes of hill known as 'Pleasure Hill' or 'Cnoc an Oireachtais'. The souterrain consisted of three passages terminating in a beehive chamber. Located 57m N of Bawntaaffe B (LH021-053----). Passage 1 (L 4.1m) extended S-N, and was partially cut into the underlying bedrock, then built up with drystone walling and capped by lintels. Passage 2 (L 8.5m, Wth 0.9m, H 0.8m-1.4m) extended E-W from the N end of the first passage, gradually sloping downwards along its length. In the middle of the N wall of the passage was a recess (L 0.6m, Wth 0.6m, H 0.7m) with single boulder jambs and lintels which has been interpreted as a 'cubby hole'. At the W end of Passage 2 a drop-hole gave access to the third passage. Passage 3 extended W for 3m and then curved NW for 2m (Wth 0.7m at E, 1.3m at NW; H 0.9m at E, 1.5m at NW). At the NW end of the passage a narrow creep gave access to a beehive chamber (diam. 3.2m, H 1.5m). The souterrain was constructed throughout of drystone walling of local Silurian greywacke and was cut into bedrock to form the floor and basal course in places. This site was entirely removed following investigation. (CLAJ 1958, 96-102).

• LH021-031001 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 Built with rubble greywacke and apparently without mortar, rectangular in plan (max. dims. 6.4m by 3.5m) and aligned SE-NW. It now stands only to a height of c. 0.7m and is grass-covered. There appears to have been a doorway in the SW. Situated on the slope of a ridge and surrounded by a low, wide, grass-covered bank or wall enclosing an area c. 21.5m by 28.3m. Two souterrains (LH021-030---- and LH021-053----) located c. 50m from the enclosure. (CLAJ 1944, 289)

• LH021-031002 Enclosure
  Description

  The partial remains of an irregular shaped enclosure surrounding church (LH021-031001-) were noted when inspected by ASI in 1966. Bank survives from NNW-N-E and is composed of earth and stone. There is a gentle curve in the bank. From SSW-W-NNW it is demarcated by a scarping of the natural slope. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 17 July 2012

• LH021-053 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 Discovered during road-widening in 1959. Situated on lower W slope of 'Pleasure Hill' with its entrance c. 57m from the nearest part of Bawntaaffe A (LH021-030----). The souterrain consisted of a curving drystone-built passage (L 14.1m, Wth 1.3m, H 1.6m) extending N-SW. The souterrain was cut into bedrock which formed the basal course of walling in places. The floor had been covered in mud, however, on which paving slabs were laid for part of its length. This is obviously a secondary feature. A horse bone was found 0.5m from the N end of the souterrain during the course of excavation (NMI reg. no. 1959:704; JRSAI 1961, 101). The souterrain was removed following investigation. (CLAJ 1958, 96-102)

Architectural heritage

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

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

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, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Bawntaaffe · Bábhún an Táthaigh

Area

1,133,625 m² (113.36 ha, 280.12 acres)

Civil parish

Monasterboice, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

Electoral division

Monasterboice, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,445 people lived in 491 households in the Monasterboice electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Monasterboice, Newtown Monasterboice, Paddock, Priest Town

Placenames

Bawntaaffe 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.