Plaster

88 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Plaster, from 156 m² to 180,670 m² (18.07 ha, 44.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Plaster 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.

• 19 Aug 2026Conditional

  Permission is sought for a two storey extension to the side (south gable) and a two storey extension to the front (east elevation) along with a single storey extension to the rear (west) elevation. Permission also includes for the alterations to the interior of the existing dwelling, replacement of existing windows, new plaster finish to exterior and all associated site development works.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2660566

• 3 Apr 2026Conditional

  Permission for a new single-storey rear extension, alterations to front & side elevations of existing single-storey house, along with all associated site development works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2660166

• 15 Aug 2025Conditional

  Permission for retention of alterations to dwelling and site layout from that previously approved under planning reference 021082.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560515

• 31 Jul 2025Conditional

  Retention Permission for the relocation of the agricultural entrance approved under planning ref.no. 22/584 and associated site development works. Permission for the completion of all associated site development works.

  Retention · Louth County Council, 25120

• 11 Oct 2023Conditional

  Permission for the erection of a 6.94m (L) x 4.4m (W) x 3.51m (H) open-sided timber gazebo for leisure purposes only - not for commercial use - and a 7.6m (L) x 3.6m (W) x 3.58m (H) lightweight metal garden storage shed for leisure purposes only - not for commercial use

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23434

• 22 Jul 2022Conditional

  Retention permission sought for an extension and alterations to an existing agricultural building previously approved planning permission under Ref. No. 11379 (ABP Ref. PL15.240178) and associated site development works

  Retention · Louth County Council, 22584

• 23 Oct 2019Conditional

  Permission for one dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 19878

• 27 Sept 2019N/a

  Permission for one dwelling house, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and all associated site development works.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 19791

• 24 Jun 2019Conditional

  Permission for extension to side of existing dwelling house to provide living accommodation for dependent relative and all associated site development works. *Significant Further Information received on 24/09/2019 provides for, inter alia, a new treatment system*

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19494

• 1 Apr 2019N/a

  Permission for development of one detached building to provide living accommodation for dependent relative and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19240

• 3 Aug 2018Conditional

  Retention of extension & alterations to an existing dwelling house and associated site develoment works.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18621

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 Plaster.

Recorded monuments

• LH004-040 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 Sub-circular area (int. dims. 28m E-W, 25m N-S) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4.7m, H 0.9m internally, 1.9m externally) with facings of large stones. Bank gapped at ESE, SSW and WNW, but ancient entrance not recognisable owing to tree-planting of the bank and interior.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arched stone road-over-rail bridge, built c. 1880. Rock-faced squared-and-snecked limestone walling, tooled limestone string course surmounted by intersecting cast-iron railings to parapet flanked by rock-faced limestone piers; squared-and-snecked limestone walling to east and west approach surmounted by tooled limestone coping. Rock-faced voussoirs to arch, prominent keystone. Bitmac surface to road.

• Bridge, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch stone road-over-railway bridge, built c. 1880. Squared-and-snecked limestone walling to spandrels and parapet, ashlar string course and ashlar coping to parapet. Segmental-headed arch, rock-faced voussoirs, flanking engaged rock-faced pilasters. Bitmac surface to road.

• Thistle House, house, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey house, built c. 1760, formerly five-bay, extended by two-bays to west. Formerly T-plan, returns and extension to north and east elevations, gable-fronted porch to south elevation. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, smooth rendered corbelled chimneystacks, terracotta pots, moulded cast-iron gutters, circular cast-iron downpipes. Painted roughcast-rendered walling to south and west elevations, painted smooth rendered walling to north; round-headed blind recess to east of north elevation. Square-headed window openings, tooled limestone sills, painted timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed door opening, timber panelled door, sidelights and overlight, set within pitched roof porch. House set in own grounds, outbuildings and modern corrugated farm buildings to north, gateway to south-east, painted smooth rendered ruled-and-lined quadrant walls, square-profile piers, wrought-iron gates.

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 Plaster, about 1 in 5 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3062 (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 Plaster with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Plaster · Plástar

Area

1,134,335 m² (113.43 ha, 280.3 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymascanlan, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Lower

Electoral division

Ballymascanlan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,272 people lived in 737 households in the Ballymascanlan electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghaboys, Aghnaskeagh, Carrickaneena, Culfore, Faughart Lower, Faughart Upper, Feede, Proleek

Placenames

Plaster 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.