Carrickavallan

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrickavallan, from 48 m² to 355,947 m² (35.59 ha, 87.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 46 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 Carrickavallan 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.

• 10 Feb 2025Conditional

  The development will consist of the following; A proposed first floor extension to an existing single storey dwellling, associated elevational changes and site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560062

• 17 Jul 2024N/a

  Permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2460407

• 20 May 2024N/a

  Permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site woks

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2460281

• 23 Nov 2023Conditional

  Permission for (1) demolition of derelict outbuildings and a portion of existing dwelling, 2) construction of two storey extension to the side of existing dwelling house, installation of waste water treatment system, new entrance onto public roadway and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2360478

• 22 Sept 2021Refused

  Permission for the construction of a storey and a half dwelling, new entrance onto public roadway, installation of waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211192

• 11 May 2018Conditional

  Permission to construct a two storey dwelling, detached garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new entrance off existing agricultural entrance and associated site works. Significant further information relates to change of boundaries.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18198

• 18 May 2017Conditional

  Permssion for development to consist of the construction of a single storey extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling house, increased site area, replacement of existing septic tank with new waste water treatment system together with all associated and ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17373

• 7 Apr 2017N/a

  Permission for development to consist of the construction of a single storey extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling house together with all associated and ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17258

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 Carrickavallan.

Recorded monuments

• LH010-008 Ringfort - rath
  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 Oval area (int. dims. 58m NE-SW, 41.5m NW-SE) enclosed by much-degraded earthen bank (c. Wth 5m, H 1.8m externally) now almost levelled to the interior with possible entrance gap (Wth 2m) at WNW. External drystone masonry facing on the bank suggests that the bank has been incorporated in the modern field system. No visible trace of fosse. Interior of site badly disturbed by cultivation ridges.

• LH010-009 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 Local tradition of a 'cave'.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Carrickavallan, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Carrickavallan · Carraig an Bhalláin

Area

827,611 m² (82.76 ha, 204.51 acres)

Civil parish

Killanny, and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Killanny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

922 people lived in 291 households in the Killanny electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyregan, Ballytrasna, Corradoran, Drumard, Drumhasket (Co. Monaghan), Killanny, Shanrah (Co. Monaghan), Tullygowan, Tullyraine

Placenames

Carrickavallan 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.