Maghereagh

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maghereagh, from 108 m² to 153,825 m² (15.38 ha, 38.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Maghereagh 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 Jan 2024Conditional

  Permission for the conversion of a two-storey barn into a one bed kitchen/diner dwelling also to decommission and upgrade the existing sewage system to connect both the existing farmhouse and barn, and with all ancillary site development works *Further information received on 10.4.24**

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460017

• 8 May 2023N/a

  Permission for the conversion of a two storey barn to accommodation with one bedroom, shower, kitchen and office space

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2360093

• 23 Apr 2018Conditional

  Permission for a 1.5 storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling and waste water treatment plant with percolation area.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18309

• 13 Jun 2017Conditional

  Permission for development to consist of the demolition of an existing agricultural tin shed and the construction of a new 2 storey dwelling house (with a max. ridge height of 8.0m), associated car parking, new access to the public road and all associated site develoment works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17442

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 Maghereagh.

Recorded monuments

• LH006-025 Earthwork
  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 Corcoran (CLAJ 1931, 383, 385) states that a 'fort' existed at this site at one time. Fort destroyed but traceable as a grassmark.

• LH006-026 Earthwork
  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 Cropmark forming an arc (NW-SE C c. 30m) on aerial photograph (CUCAP, APG 76).

Architectural heritage

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

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 Maghereagh, 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

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

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

Name

Maghereagh · An Machaire Riabhach

Area

1,054,830 m² (105.48 ha, 260.65 acres)

Civil parish

Barronstown, 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

Ballinurd, Barronstown, Carrickalust, Carrickrobin, Cunnicar, Lacknagreagh, Tattynaskeagh or Thornfield

Placenames

Maghereagh 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.