Shortstone West

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shortstone West, from 683 m² to 708,689 m² (70.87 ha, 175.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Shortstone West 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.

• 8 Sept 2026N/a

  Retention and Permission: Permission for alterations to existing single storey house to include alterations to existing windows and external doors, the removal of one chimney stack and alterations to another chimney stack, stone cladding to part of the front elevation, a single storey extension to the front of the existing house, the conversion and extension of the attic space to residential accommodation to include three dormer windows and alterations to the north west elevation to form a gable wall with a window and all site development works works required to facilitate the development. The development for retention consists of a mobile home located on site as a temporary structure and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2660612

• 5 Nov 2021Conditional

  permission for a 1.5 storey dwelling detached garage and waste water treatment system with all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 211335

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 Shortstone West.

Recorded monuments

• LH003-022001 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 Situated at the NE end of a natural ridge. Oval platform (int. dims. 37m E-W, 30m N-S, H 0.5m) enclosed by a much-degraded bank, now reduced to a scarp. Ancient entrance represented by a depression in the scarp at SE. Sub-rectangular hut platform (max. dims. 12m N-S, 11m E-W) in centre of interior defined by slight bank (H 0.7m) with entrance gap at E end of S side (LH003-022002-).

• LH003-022002 Hut site
  Description

  Sub-rectangular hut platform (max. dims. 12m N-S, 11m E-W) in centre of ringfort (LH003-022001-), defined by slight bank (H 0.7m) with entrance gap at E end of S side. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 10 November 2011

• LH003-023 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 Sub-circular area (int. dims. 39.5m E-W, 36.5m N-S) enclosed by two banks with intervening U-shaped fosse. Inner bank (Wth 11.5m, H 0.8m internally, 3.6m externally) enclosed by fosse (Wth 3.7m, D c. 0.5m) and outer bank (Wth 4.3m, H 1.5m internally, 1.8m externally). Banks gapped in several places but original entrance not recognisable. Outer bank has a modern external drystone facing from NW-N-E. A modern laneway circles the site from NW-N-E-S and replaces the outer bank and fosse at SE.

• LH003-028 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 Local tradition of a souterrain with drystone corbelled passage.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1800. Rectangular-plan with return to west, single-storey flat-roofed addition to south-west angle c. 1950. Pitched and hipped slate roofs, clay hip tiles, crested ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks, painted timber eaves course, cast-iron gutters. Painted roughcast rendered walling, smooth rendered plinth and even quoins. Square-headed window openings, painted smooth rendered slightly projecting soffit and reveals, painted tooled stone sills, painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows to ground floor east elevation, three-over-three to first floor, timber casement windows to north, south and west, uPVC windows to south elevation. Round-headed door opening, red brick voussoirs, red brick coursed surround triple horizontal course alternating with vertical, painted brick reveals, iron petal fanlight, varnished timber plain frieze, engaged fluted Doric columns, and timber door, three concrete steps; square-headed door opening to single-storey addition. Farmyard to south, ranges of one- and two-storey outbuildings, slate and corrugated-iron pitched roofs, coursed rubble stone walling, square-headed window openings some with red brick surrounds. Walled garden to south-east, coursed rubble walling, pedestrian gateway to north, tooled stone surround with keystone. Garden to east with mature planting, coursed rubble stone walling, soldier coping, square-plan gate piers, concave pyramidal caps, wrought-iron gates.

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 Shortstone West, 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 Shortstone West.

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

Name

Shortstone West · An Chloch Ghearr Íochtarach

Area

1,416,485 m² (141.65 ha, 350.02 acres)

Civil parish

Roche, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Creggan Upper, the unit of the census

Census 2022

875 people lived in 298 households in the Creggan Upper electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybinaby, Carrickastuck, Cavananore, Ducavan, Philipstown, Shortstone East, Slieve, Tawnamore

Placenames

Shortstone West 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.