Galtrimsland
Galtrimsland is a townland in the civil parish of Carlingford, barony of Dundalk Lower, Co. Louth. Its name in Irish is Fearann Ghalatroma.
Parcel 2395786
- Area
- 2,203 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 220 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
- Galtrimsland
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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
- 59.3 ha
- 147 acres
- Land parcels
- 49
- registered freehold, median 2,709 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Galtrimsland, from 60 m² to 101,536 m² (10.15 ha, 25.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Galtrimsland 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
22 Apr 2026Conditional
RED III Application - Permission for the erection and installation of (i) a new single storey detached flat roofed biomass boiler unit with an attached fuel store and flue in accordance with the Renewable Energy Directive III (RED III) Development; (ii) with all associated siteworks, services and landscaping to facilitate the proposed development
Permission · Louth County Council, 2660225
20 Apr 2026Conditional
Permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660215
1 Sept 2025Conditional
Retention Permission for an extension and alterations to a rear extension previously granted under planning ref.no. 23248. The revisions include for additional floor area (2.1m2), removal and part replacement of original internal walls and associated site development works.
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 25137
13 Nov 2024Refused
PERMISSION FOR A DWELLING HOUSE, A DOMESTIC GARAGE, A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2460703
22 Oct 2024N/a
PERMISSION FOR A DWELLING HOUSE, A DOMESTIC GARAGE, A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Louth County Council, 2460645
19 May 2023Conditional
Extension and alterations to an existing dwellinghouse, part change of external facade of front elevation and associated site development works.
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23248
11 Sept 2017Conditional
Permission for a new dwelling house, effluent treatment plant and percolation area and all associated site works. *Significant Further Information submitted 31/10/2017*
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17673
16 Aug 2017Conditional
Permission for development that will consist of the Retention of extensions and alterations to an existing dwelling house and associated site development works. *Significant Further Information submitted 07/11/17 provides for a new Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17617
10 Feb 2017Conditional
Retention permission of development consisting of 3 horse stables, 1 tack room, 1 winter bedding waste store, agricultural shed and all associated siteworks.
Retention · Louth County Council, 1786
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 Galtrimsland.
Recorded monuments
- LH008-090 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 Possible souterrain, 'stone built', near Templetown. (OS Memorandum, 6948).
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Galtrimsland.
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 Galtrimsland, 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 Galtrimsland.
- 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 Galtrimsland with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Galtrimsland · Fearann Ghalatroma
- Area
- 592,964 m² (59.3 ha, 146.52 acres)
- Civil parish
- Carlingford, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dundalk Lower
- Electoral division
- Rathcor, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,484 people lived in 467 households in the Rathcor electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardtully Beg, Ballynamaghery, Lugbriscan, Monksland, Petestown, Rath Lower, Rathcor, Seecrin
- Placenames
- Galtrimsland 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.