Nicholastown

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Nicholastown, from 111 m² to 891,707 m² (89.17 ha, 220.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Nicholastown 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.

• 20 Dec 2024Conditional

  Planning Permission for a proposed single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling house and all associated site works *Significant Further Information Received on 08/08/2025 - Retention of single storey extension to rear of existing dwelling and permission for a proposed single storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling house, new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works at Knockabbey, Thomastown, Co Louth, A91ET29*

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2460811

• 13 Jul 2021Conditional

  Retention permission for alteration to dwelling consisting of attic storage area with velux roof lights, revised site boundaries and revised site layout along with any ancillary site works on site previously granted permission under Reg. Ref. No. 10/2

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21866

• 17 May 2018N/a

  The development consists of the construction of a single storey granny flat extension to a dwelling house and for the retention of a rooflight and rear window as previously constructed to the dwelling house, and for associated site works.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18370

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 Nicholastown.

Recorded monuments

• LH010-010001 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 Oval area (int. dims. 45m E-W, 36m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (Wth 4.5m, H 0.4m internally, 0.9m externally) with external fosse (Wth 2m, D 0.3m) now defaced by modern drainage work. No ancient entrance visible. Two stone slabs 7m W of centre (LH010-010002-).

• LH010-010002 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 Two upright slabs in ringfort (LH010-010001-). 'Standing Stone' marked on the 1911 ed. of the OS 6-inch map.

• LH010-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in a gently undulating landscape. This is a sub-circular area (int. dims 48m E-W, 44.5m N-S) bounded by a very slight scarp. The monument is extensively ploughed down. It is visible as a cropmark of a circular area defined by two fosse features on OSI images (1995). See the attached view from OSI (1995) 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 Revised: 15 September 2020

• LH010-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a rise in a gently undulating landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) defined by a fosse feature is visible on Google Earth (29/06/2018). It is within an outer enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by the cropmark of another fosse feature SE-W-NW but it is cut by an ENE-WSW field bank at N and is indistinct on the E side. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 November 2019

• LH010-022 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in a gently undulating landscape. The cropmark of an oval enclosure (int. dims c. 35m NW-SE; c. 25m NE-SW; ext. diam. c. 50m NW-SE) defined by two fosse features is visible on Google Earth (12/0-7/2013; 29/06/2018). The outer fosse is only visible SW-N-E, and an entrance (Wth c. 5m) is visible through both fosses at E on the 2013 image. The ring-ditch (LH010-022001-), located c. 15m to the E is also visible on the same images. The rath can also be seen faintly on Digital Globe (2013), and it was first reported by Anthony Murphy. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 11 November 2019

• LH010-022001 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated in a gently undulating landscape. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 5m) defined by a continuous ditch feature is visible on Google Earth (12/0-7/2013; 29/06/2018). It is located c. 15m E of rath (LH010-022001-), and was first reported by Anthony Murphy. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 November 2019

• LH011-078 Earthwork
  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 arc forming semi-circle (C 38m NW-SE) on aerial photograph (CUCAP, BDS 74). Possible remains of roughly circular enclosure.

• LH011-143 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gentle S-facing slope in a gently undulating landscape. The cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (dims c. 40m NW-SE; c. 35m NE-SW) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on Google Earth (29/06/2018). It is also visible on OSAP (1995) and was first reported by Anthony Murphy. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 November 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Nicholastown.

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 Nicholastown, 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 Nicholastown.

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

Name

Nicholastown · Baile Niocóil

Area

2,028,729 m² (202.87 ha, 501.31 acres)

Civil parish

Philipstown (Ardee Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Tallanstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,069 people lived in 382 households in the Tallanstown electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Arthurstown, Drumard, Reaghstown, Thomastown, Tully

Placenames

Nicholastown 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.