Essexford

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Essexford, from 776 m² to 233,616 m² (23.36 ha, 57.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Essexford 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.

• 14 Aug 2024Conditional

  Planning Permission sought by April Thornton to construct two storey split level extension to rear of existing single storey detached cottage, demolition of existing single storey rear extension & outbuildings, landscaping and associated site works at Essexford, Dundalk, Co. Louth.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2460460

• 25 Aug 2022Conditional

  Permission Consequent on the grant of outline permission ref. no. 21/824 for a dwelling house, a domestic garage, a domestic waste water treatment system, a new site entrance with all associated site development works

  Permission consequent, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 22683

• 4 Oct 2021N/a

  Permission for a dormer style dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211235

• 25 Aug 2021N/a

  Permission for development that will consist of a dormer storey residence, waste water treatment system and percolation area, New site entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211065

• 2 Jul 2021Conditional

  Outline permission sought for a dwelling house, a domestic garage, a domestic waste water treatment system, a new site entrance with all associated site development works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21824

• 9 Dec 2020Conditional

  permission for development consisting of permission to erect 1478m² of photovoltaic panels on the roof of our existing building with all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 20532

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 Essexford.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Essexford.

Architectural heritage

• The Glebe, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former rectory, built c. 1780, now private house. Gable-fronted entrance breakfront and three-bay two-storey wing to west. Hipped slate roof to main house, pitched slate roof to west, clay ridge tiles, red brick corbelled chimneystacks, cast-iron gutters on corbelled eaves course, cast-iron downpipes, stone verge coping to breakfront and gables of west wing. Painted roughcast rendered walling, smooth rendered plinth. Square- and segmental-headed window openings, smooth rendered reveals and soffits, stone sills, painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows to ground floor, six-over-three to first floor. Round-headed door opening, painted smooth rendered surround, painted timber door with eight raised-and-fielded panels, surmounted by spoked fanlight, accessed by flight of stone steps. Situated in extensive grounds; accessed through uncoursed rendered square-profile gate piers flanked by quadrant walls; random rubble, brick and rendered outbuildings to west; random rubble wall with soldier coping to east.

• Water pump, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1890, with round-plan shaft having octagonal-plan lower part, fluted and banded to upper part. Curved cow's-tail pumping arm, and domed cap with crenellation-like detail to rim, and pointed finial. Maker's mark to rear. Located on east side of bridge over stream and on boundary between counties Monaghan and Louth.

• Bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone bridge carrying road north-south over stream, built c.1800, on boundary of counties Monaghan and Louth. Round arch with tooled-stone voussoirs. Rubble stone walls, soffit and parapet. Arch on east elevation springs from rubble stone wall to south bank. Cut-stone copings to parapet walls having rock-faced coping stones. Water pump on east side of bridge. Stone steps to east side north bank. Adjacent second bridge carrying road east-west over same stream, having round arch, stone voussoirs and rubble stone walls to south elevation.

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 Essexford, 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_2738 (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 Essexford with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Essexford · Droim Muirbhigh

Area

693,645 m² (69.36 ha, 171.4 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

Annaghanmoney, Drumgur, Dunelty (Co. Monaghan), Garlegobban (Co. Monaghan), Redbog, Stradeen (Co. Monaghan)

Placenames

Essexford 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.