Stifyans
Stifyans is a townland in the civil parish of Mosstown, barony of Ardee, Co. Louth. Its name in Irish is Tigh Phaghain.
Parcel 4995617
- Area
- 83 m²
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Stifyans
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 18.9 ha
- 47 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 1,785 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Stifyans, from 83 m² to 57,335 m² (5.73 ha, 14.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Stifyans 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Jun 2026Conditional
Permission for proposed single storey extension to rear and proposed front porch to existing dwelling, raise existing roof ridge level of existing dwelling to accommodate first floor living accommodation and match existing ridge level of adjoining dwelling to west, proposed connection of foul sewer to proprietary waste water treatment system already granted permission under ref. no. 25123, together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2683
9 Jun 2026N/a
Permission for proposed single storey extension to rear and proposed front porch to existing dwelling, raise existing roof ridge level to match existing ridge level of adjoining dwelling to west, proposed connection of foul sewer to proprietary wastewater treatment system already granted permission under ref. no. 25123, together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2677
5 Aug 2025Conditional
Permission for the proposed installation of proprietary waste water treatment system/percolation area to serve existing terraced dwelling located 45m to east of same incorporating foul sump/pump chamber with pumping main to proposed WWTS described above via the public road carriageway with all ancillary siteworks.
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 25123
1 Jul 2021Conditional
Permission for the provision of a detached garage with pitched roof and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21810
27 May 2021Conditional
Permission for development will consist of proposed dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21657
31 Oct 2019Conditional
Permission to construct a ground floor extension to the side of our dwelling. Permission is also sought for the ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19904
12 Aug 2019Conditional
Permission for proposed dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, and all associated works.
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19649
5 Jul 2019Conditional
Permission to increase the capacity of pre-school over and above that granted under planning ref. no. 18740. The additional capacity will be confined to a log cabin to the rear of dwelling and attached to the log cabin previously granted. Permission is also sought for the ancillary site development works.
Permission · Louth County Council, 19533
11 Mar 2019Conditional
Permission for proposed dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated works.
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19174
12 Sept 2018Conditional
Retention planning permission for a pre-school. The pre-school is confined to a small area of ground floor of dwelling (previously exempt) and to the log cabin at the rear which has intensified the use and retention permission for the ancillary site development works.
Retention · Louth County Council, 18740
12 Jan 2018Conditional
Permission for development will consist of provision of a detached garage and minor alterations to approved house and all associated site development works.
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 1821
27 Oct 2017Conditional
Permission for development will consist of a proposed one and half storey dwelling house, on-site well, proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area. Retention of site development works consisting of extension of existing access lane and associated site works.
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17806
17 May 2017N/a
Retention & Permission for development to consist of proposed single storey dwellinghouse, on-site well, proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area. Retention of site development works consisting of extension of existing access lane and associated siteworks. *Significant Further Information submitted 20/09/2017*
Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 17371
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Stifyans.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Stifyans.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Stifyans.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Stifyans, 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 Stifyans.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Stifyans with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Stifyans · Tigh Phaghain
- Area
- 189,001 m² (18.9 ha, 46.7 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mosstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ardee
- Electoral division
- Dunleer, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 3,270 people lived in 1,088 households in the Dunleer electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardlaraghan, Paughanstown, Philipstown
- Placenames
- Stifyans 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.