Shanmullagh

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shanmullagh, from 78 m² to 66,950 m² (6.7 ha, 16.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Shanmullagh 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.

• 29 Aug 2026N/a

  Permission for 1. Excavation of soil and stone material (9,794 cu.m) for re-use as engineering fill material on the N53 (Hackballscross-Rassan) Road Realignment Scheme. 2. Backfilling of the void (9,794 cu.m) created by the excavation referred to in Item 1 using soil and stone material excavated along the route of the N53 (Hackballscross-Rassan) Road Realignment Scheme. 3. Raising ground levels within the overall site using further soil and stone material (52,645 cu.m) excavated along the route of the N53 (Hackballscross-Rassan) Road Realignment Scheme. 4. Associated Site Development works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2660586

• 11 Aug 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct a one & a half storey dwelling house, new entrance to public road, install a waste water treatment system and for all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560508

• 12 Mar 2025Conditional

  Permission for proposed dwelling house and a detached domestic garage, new site entrance, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works. *Significant Further Information Received on 17/10/2025*

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2560135

• 4 Oct 2023Conditional

  Permission for construction of two storey detached dwelling house, single storey detached garage, waste water treatment system, new entrance onto public roadway and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23428

• 18 May 2022N/a

  outline permission for a 2 storey dwelling, detached garage, new site entrance and waste water treatment system will all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22395

• 25 May 2021Conditional

  Part 8 - Louth County Council hereby gives notice of its intention to carry out realignment of the N53 National Secondary Route in the townlands of Rassan, Shanmullagh, Annaghvacky, Carrickastuck and Barronstown, comprising the construction of a single carriageway road for a distance of 3.3km from a location 920m east of the N53 junction with local road L-3119 in the townland of Rassan to a location 180m west of the N53 junction with local road L-3125 in the townland of Barronstown and associated accommodation and fencing works, landscaping works, drainage works and ancillary works. The N53 realignment will typically consist of 7.3m of carriageway with 2.5m hard shoulders and 3m verges. A ghost island junction will be located approximately 300m east of Annaghvackey cross roads. There will be a new link road, approx. 6m long, connecting the existing N53 with proposed new N53 with the proposed alignment at this location. Travelling south on the LP-7120from Annaghvacky cross roads towards Treagh the LP-7120 will be cul de saced 320m approx. from Annaghvacky cross roads. The LT-31252 Clonaleenaghan road will have a simple junction with the N53. The LP-3117 (Crossmaglen) and adjacent LS 7116 will remain simple junctions off the existing N53 which will be reclassified as a local road

  Permission · Louth County Council, 21648

• 12 Apr 2021Conditional

  Permission for a dwelling house and waste water treatment system with percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21397

• 30 May 2019Conditional

  Permission to demolish derelict cottage and construct a dwelling house and waste water treatment system with percolation area.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19412

• 24 Jul 2018Conditional

  Permission for construction of two storey detached dwelling house, single storey detached garage, waste water treatment system, new entrance onto public roadway and associated site works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 18580

• 20 Feb 2018Conditional

  PERMISSION for development will consist of Permission for a dwelling house , domestic garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works. **SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION RECEIVED 04/05/2018**

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 18121

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 Shanmullagh.

Recorded monuments

• LH006-001001 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. 31m N-S, 28.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (Wth 5-6.5m, H 0.2-0.5m internally, 0.9-2m externally) with traces of external fosse at W. Ancient entrance gap (Wth 4m) at S. Souterrain (LH006-001002-) in interior.

• LH006-001002 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 Depression in surface at NW side of interior of ringfort (LH006-001001-), known locally as 'Lisadhone', may be remains of a collapsed souterrain. Inaccessible.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Shanmullagh, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2855 (ZIP).

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

Name

Shanmullagh · An Seanmhullach

Area

922,080 m² (92.21 ha, 227.85 acres)

Civil parish

Creggan, 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

Annaghvacky, Clonaleenaghan, Killyclessy, Rassan, Sheelagh, Treagh

Placenames

Shanmullagh 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.