Hammondstown

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hammondstown, from 36 m² to 561,904 m² (56.19 ha, 138.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Hammondstown 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.

• 26 Aug 2025Conditional

  Retention of existing single storey extension to side and rear of existing two storey dwelling house together with associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 25133

• 8 May 2023Conditional

  Permission for detached garage incorporating car port and all associated site works *Further information received on 27.7.23*

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23228

• 4 Jan 2022Conditional

  permission consequent on the grant of outline permission ref. no. 21/955 for a two storey dwelling house, waste water treatment system, new entrance to public road and all necessary site works

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Louth County Council, 222

• 30 Jul 2021Conditional

  Outline permission for proposed dwelling house, waste water treatment system, new entrance to public road and all necessary site works *Significant Further Information submitted 29/9/21*

  Outline permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21955

• 4 Mar 2021N/a

  Outline permission for development that will consist of a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21215

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 Hammondstown.

Recorded monuments

• LH018-031 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Situated in a field known as 'Tobar Muire' and indicated but not named on 1865 OS map (revision) (Coyle 1956, 204-5). When inspected by ASI in 1967 it was closed up. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 4 July 2012

Architectural heritage

• House, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1760, currently unoccupied. Rectangular-plan, advanced entrance bay to south, outbuildings attached to east and west. Pitched thatched roof, red brick corbelled chimneystack, concrete verge coping to east gable. White-washed roughcast-rendered walling to south, white-washed stone to north. Square-headed window openings, painted stone sills, painted timber one-over-one sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening, painted vertically-sheeted door. Ruined outbuilding to east, single-bay outbuilding to west, corrugated-iron roofs, white-washed stone walling, square-headed door openings, painted timber vertically-sheeted half-door and double doors. Corner-sited house, fronting directly onto road, overgrown site.

• House, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1750. Rectangular-plan, attached outbuilding to north, single-bay single-storey extension to south c. 1935, porch to west elevation. Pitched thatched roof, aluminium ridge coping, smooth rendered flat-capped chimneystacks, overhanging eaves; pan tiles to south extension. Lime-washed roughcast-rendered walling, painted smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings, painted smooth rendered reveals, painted stone sills, painted timber two-over-two timber sliding sash windows to west, painted timber multiple-pane casement windows to east; uPVC casement window to extension. Square-headed door openings; painted smooth rendered reveals, painted timber vertically sheeted door with upper glazed panels c. 1950 to porch, painted timber vertically-sheeted door to attached outbuilding. house set in farm complex, outbuilding to south, garden to east, bounded by hedge and painted roughcast wall, curved stone, wrought-iron gates to south-east.

• House, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1750. Rectangular-plan, pitched corrugated-iron random rubble attached outbuilding to west. Pitched thatched roof, overhanging eaves, aluminium coping to ridge, circular cast-iron downpipes. Lime-wash to stone and mud walling. Square-headed window opening, painted timber two-over-two sliding sash windows, painted timber vertically-sheeted shutter to south. Square-headed door opening, painted timber vertically-sheeted door. House situated beside road, bounded by painted smooth rendered wall, iron gate, garden 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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Hammondstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Hammondstown · Baile Ámainn

Area

1,294,384 m² (129.44 ha, 319.85 acres)

Civil parish

Mosstown, and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Dunleer, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunleer electoral division: 3,270 people in 1,088 households; 74% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Athclare, Castlelumny, Cookspark, Duryhole, Hammondstown, Listulk, Marshallrath, Rathgory, Stirue, Stirue, Woodland

Placenames

Hammondstown 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.