Priorstown

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Priorstown, from 88 m² to 237,676 m² (23.77 ha, 58.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 47 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 Priorstown 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.

• 25 May 2026Conditional

  Outline planning permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, vehicular entrance via existing agricultural gateway and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660322

• 30 Mar 2026Conditional

  Permission for a new shed to be used for storage of grain and use existing entrance onto public road and all associated site works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2660158

• 7 May 2024N/a

  Retention & Permission for the following a) retention of milking parlour, dairy, waiting yard, water storage tank and meal bin. b) retention of calf shed. c) retention of extension to existing cubicle shed and associated flow channel and underground slatted slurry storage tank. d) construction of an agricultural shed to include cubicle housing, straw bedded housing, associated underground slatted slurry storage tank and all associated site works

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2460257

• 2 Apr 2024N/a

  Retention of a) a milking parlour, dairy, waiting yard, water storage tank and meal bin; b) retention of calf shed; c) retention of extension to existing cubicle shed and associated flow channel and underground slatted slurry storage tank; d) permission for the construction of an agricultural shed to include cubicle housing, straw bedded housing, associated underground slatted slurry storage tank and all associated site works

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2460171

• 19 Apr 2022Conditional

  permission/retention for: 1. Retention and completion of existing one and a half storey dwelling house previously granted permission under ref. no. 08/117. 2. Retention of existing right of way access lane from public road to existing dwellings. 3. Proposed relocation of waste water treatment/percolation area. 4. Proposed relocation of detached double garage previously granted under ref. no. 08/117. All above to include associated site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 22307

• 23 Jul 2021Conditional

  Permission for 1. Demolition of existing sunroom to rear of existing dwelling and construction of new single storey extensions to rear and side of existing dwelling. 2. All associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21933

• 10 May 2021Conditional

  Proposed development consisting of dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system an dpercolation area, roadside vehicular entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 21545

• 22 Oct 2020Conditional

  Permission for proposed two storey dwelling house with detached garage and landscaping, and the installation of an on-site waste water treatment system and percolation area and associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20867

• 2 Oct 2020N/a

  Permission for a proposed two storey dwelling house with detached garage and landscaping and the installation of an on-site wastewater treatment system and percolation area and associated siteworks

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20780

• 10 Sept 2020Refused

  Permission for proposed single storey dwelling house, detached domestic double garage/storage area, onsite well, installation of proprietary waste water treatment system/percolation area, vehicular access to site from public road via existing private right of way together with associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20700

• 2 Dec 2019Conditional

  Retention permission for an existing agricultural vehicular entrance and associated works. *Significant Further Information received on 15/12/2020 which includes information on the retention and completion of works for an existing agricultural vehicular entrance and associated works*

  Retention · Louth County Council, 191002

• 19 Jun 2018Conditional

  Permission sought for dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, access lane to site and all associated site works. **SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION RECEIVED 12/09/2018**

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 18470

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackhall Woods 001293

Recorded monuments

• LH022-011 Ecclesiastical site
  Description

  Local tradition that the walls of a monastery from which the townland took its name (IFC Schools MSS 674, 151) are preserved in the roadside walls. The above 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 revision: 17 June 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Priorstown, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3140 (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 Priorstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Priorstown · Baile an Phrióra

Area

1,393,249 m² (139.32 ha, 344.28 acres)

Civil parish

Drumshallon, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

Electoral division

Termonfeckin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,003 people lived in 1,280 households in the Termonfeckin electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Blackhall, Curstown, Donnellystown, Galroostown, Garrolagh, Kellystown, Kiltallaght, Milltown

Placenames

Priorstown 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.