Tattynaskeagh or Thornfield
Tattynaskeagh or Thornfield is a townland in the civil parish of Inishkeen, barony of Dundalk Upper, Co. Louth. Its name in Irish is Táite na Sceach.
Parcel 1132285
- Area
- 382,097 m² (38.21 ha, 94.42 acres)
- Buildings
- 6 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 994 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Tattynaskeagh or Thornfield
Planning applications on this parcel
17 Oct 2025Conditional
The development consists of permission for the refurbishment of an existing single storey cottage, the demolition of existing porch and the construction of a single storey extension to the rear and side, construction of new vehicular entrance southwards of the existing entrance, installation of new wastewater treatment system to replace existing septic tank, increase of plot size and formation of new native hedge boundary and all associated site development works.
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560658
13 Feb 2024Conditional
Retention permission for a shed to the northeast of existing garage and a polytunnel in the rear garden of the existing site and all associated site development works
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460076
7 Feb 2024N/a
Retention permission of a shed to the northeast of existing garage and a polytunnel in the rear garden of the existing site and all associated site development works
Retention · Louth County Council, 2460067
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2855 (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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 72.9 ha
- 180 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 6,703 m² (0.67 ha, 1.66 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tattynaskeagh or Thornfield, from 2,240 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 382,097 m² (38.21 ha, 94.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Tattynaskeagh or Thornfield 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
17 Oct 2025Conditional
The development consists of permission for the refurbishment of an existing single storey cottage, the demolition of existing porch and the construction of a single storey extension to the rear and side, construction of new vehicular entrance southwards of the existing entrance, installation of new wastewater treatment system to replace existing septic tank, increase of plot size and formation of new native hedge boundary and all associated site development works.
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560658
13 Feb 2024Conditional
Retention permission for a shed to the northeast of existing garage and a polytunnel in the rear garden of the existing site and all associated site development works
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460076
7 Feb 2024N/a
Retention permission of a shed to the northeast of existing garage and a polytunnel in the rear garden of the existing site and all associated site development works
Retention · Louth County Council, 2460067
24 May 2021Conditional
Permission for the construction of a new domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21630
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tattynaskeagh or Thornfield.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tattynaskeagh or Thornfield.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tattynaskeagh or Thornfield.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Tattynaskeagh or Thornfield, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2855 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Tattynaskeagh or Thornfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Tattynaskeagh or Thornfield · Táite na Sceach
- Area
- 729,083 m² (72.91 ha, 180.16 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inishkeen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dundalk Upper
- Electoral division
- Barronstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 752 people lived in 255 households in the Barronstown electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carracloghan, Clonaleenaghan, Cunnicar, Derryfalone, Drumsinnot, Gorteen, Lacknagreagh, Maghereagh
- Placenames
- Tattynaskeagh or Thornfield 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.