Barmeath

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Barmeath, from 13,492 m² (1.35 ha, 3.33 acres) to 13,492 m² (1.35 ha, 3.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Barmeath 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.

• 28 Jun 2025N/a

  Retention of alterations and refurbishment of yard house. Barmeath Castle is a Protected Structure.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560405

• 28 Jun 2025Conditional

  Retention of natural swimming pool and associated pool building

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560406

• 28 Jun 2025Conditional

  Retention of tennis court

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560407

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: Barmeath Woods 001801

Recorded monuments

• LH018-033 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Remodelled in the 1820s by Mr. Smith, an architect from Herefordshire (Leslie 1908, 126), this modern structure probably incorporates part of a tower house. This is evident at the NE angle where the walls of the corner tower and the E portion of the N wall are much thicker than the rest of the building. (Bassett 1886, 223; Tempest 1952b, 141) 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 upload: 17 July 2007

• LH018-034 Hermitage
  Description

  Marked as 'Hermitage' on the 1835 'OS 6-inch' map and 'Hermitage (in Ruins)' on the 1911 'OS 6-inch map'. When inspected by ASI in 1966 it was described as a small rectangular structure (Int. dims. 8m x 4m), in a ruinous state with a bricked interior and boulders on the exterior. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 4 July 2012

• LH018-036 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 of roughly coursed greywacke. Nineteenth-century stonework in W doorway with armorial slab over, stating that it was built by Mary Dillon, relict of John Bellew, in 1697. Earlier doorway, blocked up, in W end of S wall appears to be of a late seventeenth-century date. Main fabric of the church may be as early as the sixteenth century. Int. dims. c. 8m E-W, c. 5m N-S. (CLAJ 1921, 31; CLAJ 1944, 283-4)

Architectural heritage

• Barmeath Castle, gate lodge, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of three-bay single-storey gate lodges, built c. 1830, now disused. Hipped slate roofs, clay ridge and hip tiles, some cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast-rendered walling. Pointed arch window openings, smooth rendered reveals, painted stone sills (rendered to north lodge), painted timber multiple-pane casement windows, traceried fanlight. Square-headed door openings, painted timber vertically-sheeted doors. Attached roughcast-rendered structure to north lodge. Roughcast-rendered boundary walls to north and south; central entrance gateway, roughcast-rendered gate piers, tooled limestone caps, metal gates; wrought-iron gates and railings to driveway. Lodges set to either side of entrance gateway leading to Barmeath Castle to west.

• Barmeath Castle, country house, 1750–1790 · National interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay three-storey crenellated county house, built c. 1770, on site of medieval castle. Remodelled, enlarged and crenellated 1839, four-storey crenellated and machicolated round towers to north and west, crenellated cornice, projecting breakfront with portcullis containing entrance porte cochere, turreted curtain wall to north enclosed courtyard containing ruins of servant's quarters, accessed via round-headed arched entrance gate with bartizans above loophole windows, containing round-headed carriage opening. Pitched slate roofs hidden by parapet, limestone chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walling, smooth render ruled-and-lined walling to south section of east elevation, coursed rubble stone visible. Square-headed window openings to main elevation, chamfered limestone surround, hood-mouldings, human heads to label stops; flush tooled limestone sills, painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows; round-headed opening at north tower, fixed panes; arrow loops to portcullis tower, bartizans, Venetian windows to side elevation (north). Pointed arch door opening at porte cochere, Romanesque door surround, hood moulding terminating in human head label stops, chevroned archivolt supported on clustered colonettes, painted timber vertically-sheeted internal door leads to inner courtyard. House opens onto gravelled drive, ornamental gardens and river to south; outbuildings to north-west overlooking fields, view to sea at fore, approached by long tree-lined avenue terminating at paired gate lodges.

• Barmeath Castle, farmyard complex, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Rendered stableyard, built c. 1800. Square-plan, single-storey with attic outbuildings ranged to south, north and west; walled garden forming east range. Hipped slate roofs, louvred lucarnes to all ranges, cast-iron and some replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Roughcast-rendered walling. Square-headed window openings, smooth rendered reveals, granite sills, painted timber casement windows, metal diamond-pane windows, central diamond pivots, to west range. Square-headed door openings, painted timber vertically-sheeted doors, opening to west give access to further courtyard of single-storey rubble stone outbuildings, now partially demolished; pitched slate roofs, red brick surrounds to openings. Farmyard set to west of main house, accessed by cobbled lane and surrounded by farmland to north, south and west.

• Saint Borchill's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1765–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Roman Catholic church, built 1766. T-plan, sacristy to west. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, painted eaves and timber bargeboards, uPVC half-round gutter to sprocketed eaves, circular cast-iron downpipes. Painted smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walling, painted smooth rendered block-and-start quoins, dressed limestone circular clasping quoins to east, dressed ashlar limestone plinth, timber cross beneath gable east elevation. Pointed arch window opening, tooled limestone sills, painted Y-tracery timber lattice windows, stained glass to centre lights to nave, timber horizontally-paned lights to sacristy. Pointed arch door openings, painted timber vertically-sheeted double doors, chamfered reveals and concrete step to east door. Square-headed door opening to sacristy, painted vertically-sheeted timber door. Situated on height with straight avenue running east to wrought-iron gates, ashlar limestone gate piers, shallow pyramidal styled caps, curved roughcast rendered wall, smooth rendered coping, pedestrian wrought-iron gate to south, random coursed stone wall to north and south of entrance, smooth rendered coping.

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 Barmeath, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Barmeath · Bearna Mheá

Area

1,260,502 m² (126.05 ha, 311.48 acres)

Civil parish

Dysart, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

Electoral division

Dysart, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,034 people lived in 323 households in the Dysart electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynagrena, Dysart, Gallagh, Grangebellew, Grattanstown, Hitchestown, Skeaghmore, Windmill

Placenames

Barmeath 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.