Castlering

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlering, from 103 m² to 313,089 m² (31.31 ha, 77.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Castlering 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Castlering 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 the townland of Castlering.

Recorded monuments

• LH006-076001 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  Situated on a low ridge of possible rock outcrop close to the E bank of the River Fane, and consisting of a steep-sided, almost circular mound (max. H c. 6m, max. diam. at base 31m, at top c. 11m) with a crescent-shaped bailey at the W defined by an escarpment. There is a wide shallow fosse (Wth 7.5m, D 0.3m) between the mound and the bailey (max. Wth 10.5m, max. L 38m, H c. 5m). There is no evidence of a fosse surrounding either the motte or the bailey. Wright (1758, bk I, pl. XIII) shows a hexagonal feature (LH006-076002-) encompassing the summit of the mound. A basal course of stone can still be seen at the ENE side and a slight narrow bank at the SW. (Wright 1758, bk I ,pl. XIII,; Orpen 1908, 252; Quinn 1911, 429-30). The above 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: 17 July 2007

• LH006-076002 Building
  Description

  Wright (1758, bk I, pl. XIII) depicts a hexagonal feature on top of motte (LH006-076001-), and there is a slight bank still on its perimeter. Reference: Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 23 November 2011

• LH006-077 Standing stone
  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 Situated on a rocky outcrop in undulating countryside. Slate slab (max. dims. H 2.3m, 1.2m by 0.6m in section), known locally as 'Cu Chullainn's Stone'. (ITA Survey, 1940)

• LH011-007 Standing stone
  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 Slate slab (max. dims. H 1.4m, 0.8m square in section).

• LH011-008 Church
  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 Church existed in 1622 in ruinous condition, but no trace now remains. Surrounding field adjacent to Motte (LH006-076001-) known locally as 'graveyard field'. Its exact position is not known but it is thought to have been in the field SW of Castlering House. (CLAJ 1942, 106; Tempest 1952b, 121)

Architectural heritage

• Hollow House, house, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, dated 1857. Built on T-plan with two-storey return to rear. Hipped slate roof, crested ridge tiles, terracotta finials, red brick chimneystacks, moulded cast-iron gutters and downpipes. Painted ruled-and-lined smooth rendered walling, raised quoins, chamfered plinth course. Square-headed window openings, painted reveals, sills, containing three-over-six to first floor, six-over-six to ground floor, timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed door opening, painted reveal, painted moulded rendered keystone reading "1857", plain glazed fanlight above timber entablature supported on engaged door columns flanking timber panelled door, accessed via four limestone steps. Opening onto gravelled drive, gardens, long avenue leads to main road. Built close to the river near site of mill, demolished c 1970s. Lean-to shed at garden wall, stone farm buildings to north. Situated near weir on River Fane.

• Castlering Bridge, bridge, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-arch rubble masonry road bridge with round-arched openings and having V-cutwaters to both east and west elevations, built c. 1810. Parapet rebuilt and repaired in concrete c. 1970 and concrete bases to cutwaters with concrete render added to arch soffits. Uncoursed limestone rubble masonry with rubble stone voussoirs to arches. Bridge carries road over broad stretch of Fane River, in rural setting.

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 Castlering, 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 Castlering.

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

Name

Castlering · Caisleán Fhraing

Area

851,984 m² (85.2 ha, 210.53 acres)

Civil parish

Louth, and its townlands

Barony

Louth

Electoral division

Castlering, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,092 people lived in 352 households in the Castlering electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ash Little, Carrickmullan, Chanonrock, Coolcreedan, Drumgonnelly, Grange

Placenames

Castlering 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.