Togher

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Togher, from 45 m² to 456,134 m² (45.61 ha, 112.71 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 Togher 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.

• 4 Feb 2026Conditional

  Permission for the change of house type including soakaway and waste water treatment system and percolation area in relation to planning permission granted ref. no. 21191

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660045

• 5 Sept 2025Conditional

  Planning permission for a proposed dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and polishing filter percolation area, new vehicular entrance and extension of existing cul-de-sac carriageway and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2560562

• 13 Sept 2024Conditional

  Permission Consequent on a grant of outline permission in relation to planning ref . no. 21687 for dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works. Permission for detached domestic garage

  Permission consequent · Louth County Council, 2460542

• 9 Sept 2023Refused

  PERMISSION FOR A NEW DORMER DWELLING, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2360342

• 21 Mar 2022Conditional

  permission for the extension and alteration to an existing dwelling, consisting of the extension to the rear of existing building together with the alteration to the front at ground and first floor, the reconstruction of the existing pitched roof to accommodate the alterations and a new canopy connecting the main house entrance and garage. The reconstruction of the roof will include the creation of 2 new dormer windows and 4 additional roof lights **Significant further information received on 24.8.22 provides for, inter alia, a new wwts and inclusion of an outbuilding for retention**

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22218

• 2 Mar 2022N/a

  permission for the extension and alterations to an existing dwelling. Extension to the rear of the existing building together with the alteration to the front at ground and first floor, the reconstruction of the existing pitched roof to accommodate the alterations and a new canopy connecting the main house entrance and garage. The reconstruction of the roof will include the creation of 2 new dormer windows and 4 additional roof lights

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22160

• 1 Jun 2021Conditional

  Outline permission for development that will consist of a dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21687

• 17 May 2021Conditional

  Permission sought for extension and alterations to existing dwelling house, including demolition of existing single storey rear extension, construction of replacement single storey rear extension, decommissioning of existing septic tank with installation of replacement proprietary waste water treatment system, closing of existing site vehicular entrance and formation of replacement entrance to revised location and all associated site works. *Significant Further Information received on 07/10/2021.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21599

• 22 Apr 2021Refused

  Permission for the construction of a two storey dwelling house, septic tank, percolation area, domestic garage and all associated site development works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 21447

• 16 Apr 2021Conditional

  Permission for construction of an 18 metre high free standing communications structure with its associated antennae, communication dishes, ground equipment and all associated site development works. The development will form part of Eircom Ltd. existing telecommunications and broadband network

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21417

• 1 Mar 2021Conditional

  Permission sought for dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, submission of flood risk assessment and all associated site works **Significant Further Information received 11/08/2021**

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21191

• 4 Nov 2020Refused

  Outline Permission sought for dwelling House, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 20918

• 13 Dec 2019Conditional

  Permission for development to consist of dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 191050

• 12 Jun 2019Conditional

  Retention & Permission: Permission to retain and complete the de-commissioning of an existing septic tank and installation of new mechanical waste water treatment system and polishing filter.

  Retention · Louth County Council, 19456

• 20 Nov 2018Conditional

  Permission sought for revised site boundaries in relation to permission granted under Ref. No. 071476.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18944

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 Togher.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Togher.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1800, now also in use as public house. Double pile, rectangular-plan main block to west, shorter rectangular-plan block to east, projecting flat-roofed porch to centre of west elevation, open lean-to canopy to east. Half-hipped slate roofs, clay ridge and hip tiles, unpainted smooth rendered and red brick corbelled chimneystacks, cast-iron gutters on eaves corbel course; profiled metal decking to canopy. Painted roughcast rendered walling to west block, smooth rendered quoins, smooth rendered battered plinth, painted smooth rendered cornice and blocking course to porch; painted coursed rubble walling to rear (east) block, painted brick quoins. Square-headed window openings, painted smooth rendered slightly-projecting reveals and soffits, painted sills, painted timber two-over-two horned sliding sash windows to ground floor of west elevation, one-over-one to first floor west elevation, two-over-two to first floor east elevation, replacement windows to ground floor east elevation. Square-headed door opening in porch, painted smooth rendered reveals and soffit, hardwood panelled door. Fronting crossroads to west; single-storey outbuilding to north-east, pitched slate roof, uncoursed rubble stone walling, brick dressings; uncoursed rubble stone boundary walls with soldier coping, round-headed door opening in south-east wall; carpark and garden to rear (east).

• Togher House, house, 1690–1710 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached house, built c. 1700. Triple gabled rear elevation. Pitched slate roofs with rebuilt red brick chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Some timber and replacement uPVC windows. Additions and outbuildings to rear.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820. Projecting gabled porch to south (front) elevation, single-storey curved corrugated-iron-roofed outbuilding abutting west gable, single-storey corrugated-iron-roofed lean-to shed abutting west gable of outbuilding. Pitched artificial slate roof, terracotta ridge tiles, unpainted smooth rendered corbelled chimneystack; painted timber soffits, fascias and bargeboards c. 1950; cast-iron gutters to rear (north) elevation and outbuilding. Lime-washed rendered walling with rubble stonework visible in places and evidence on west gable that roof raised c. 1950, structural ties to west of south elevation and to outbuilding. Square-headed window openings, painted smooth rendered reveals and soffits, painted stone sills, painted timber two-over-two horned sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening in porch, painted timber vertically-sheeted door. Range of outbuildings to roadside to south-west of house, corrugated-iron roof, rubble stone walling, raised verges to east gable, loop windows splayed internally, square-headed door openings, elliptical-headed brick-dressed carriage arch to east gable; bounded to south and east by rubble wall; farm land to north and west; set back from crossroads to south.

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 Togher, about 1 in 20 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Togher.

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

Name

Togher · An Tóchar

Area

1,344,736 m² (134.47 ha, 332.29 acres)

Civil parish

Clonmore, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

Electoral division

Dysart, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,034 people lived in 323 households in the Dysart electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardballan, Boycetown, Clonmore, Killally, Painestown, Wyanstown

Placenames

Togher 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.