Loughantarve

127 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughantarve, from 96 m² to 360,439 m² (36.04 ha, 89.07 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.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 109 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C1.1Town or Village Centre (Commercial, retail)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 5 May 2026Conditional

  Permission for alterations and extension works to the existing two-storey dwelling, including the construction of a new dormer-style attic conversion to provide storage accommodation, new rooflights, internal modifications and all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2660257

• 28 Jan 2026Refused

  Permission for the refurbishment & alterations of existing dwelling house, extension to rear of existing dwelling house, domestic garage and all associated site development works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2660031

• 29 Oct 2021Conditional

  permission for 1. conversion of attic space to habitable accommodation to include construction of 2 dormer windows to front of dwelling house; 2. extension to rear of existing dwelling house and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211322

• 25 Jun 2021Conditional

  Retention permission for development that will consist of retention of change-of-use of existing dwelling house to Air B&B. *Significant Further Information received on 19/11/2021 provides for, inter alia, a new waste water treatment system*

  Retention · Louth County Council, 21796

• 23 Apr 2018Conditional

  Permission consisting of alterations and extension to existing dwelling house. **SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION RECEIVED 20/06/2018**

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18305

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 Loughantarve.

Recorded monuments

• LH011-014 Enclosure
  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 ring defining circular enclosure (max. diam. c. 30m) on aerial photograph (CUCAP, AOX 79).

• LH011-023 Ring-ditch
  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 ring (diam. c. 17m). (CUCAP, ASV 88).

Architectural heritage

• House, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1840, with single-storey lean-to bay to west, three-bay two-storey outbuilding attached to east and single-storey gable-fronted rear entrance porch to north, farmyard to rear (north) with three ranges of single-storey outbuildings. Raged around a central courtyard. House currently vacant. Pitched slate roof, terracotta ridge tiles, brick chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast concrete rendered walling with smooth rendered base plinth. Square-headed window openings with patent rendered reveals, painted stone sills and timber frame one-over-one sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed central door opening with plain glazed fanlight, concrete step and timber panelled door. Outbuildings to north consisting of three single-storey ranges with pitched slate roofs, corrugated-iron to east range, whitewashed rubble masonry walling and square-headed openings. North and west ranges form boundary with street at crossroads site and the perimeter is continued with roughcast rendered boundary walling to complex. Entrances to yard at north-east and north-west. House is set perpendicular to road with concrete paving to front (south) and entrance gateway to south-west, having rendered quadrant walling and gate posts and wrought-iron gates and railings.

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 Loughantarve, 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 Loughantarve.

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.

• Loughantarve, Knockbridge64 sales

Name

Loughantarve · Loch an Tairbh

Area

479,920 m² (47.99 ha, 118.59 acres)

Civil parish

Louth, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinlough, Grange, Halftate, Millpark, Newtown

Placenames

Loughantarve 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.