Mountaintown

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountaintown, from 49 m² to 154,754 m² (15.48 ha, 38.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 20 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential Phase 1 (New/proposed residential)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 25 Jun 2026Conditional

  Permmission for a single storey side extension to an existing two storey semi detached dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660415

• 11 Mar 2026Conditional

  Retention permission for a domestic single storey extension to an existing two storey dwelling

  Retention · Louth County Council, 2660126

• 18 Mar 2025Conditional

  Permission for development of the construction of 84 no houses (18 No. 2-Bed, 52 No. 3-Bed and 14 No. 4-Bed houses) and a creche on a site of circa. 3.08 hectares, together with all associated site development works including landscaping, boundary treatments, footpaths, internal access roads, public lighting, foul and surface water drainage, etc. *Significant Further Information Received on 10/10/2025*

  Permission, 84 homes · Louth County Council, 2560144

• 15 Aug 2023Conditional

  Retention permission for as constructed detached domestic garage and completion of same and all associated site works in relation to permission granted re. no. 20/512 **Further information received on 08/12/2023**

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 23365

• 2 Jun 2022N/a

  Retention permission sought for as constructed detached domestic garage and side attic window to dwelling house and completion of same in relation to permission granted under ref. no. 20/512

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22449

• 6 Sept 2021Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a single storey dwelling house, boundary walls and associated site works. *Further Information received on 30/03/2022*

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 211107

• 14 Jul 2020Conditional

  Permission sought for dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, detached domestic garage, alteration of and entry to site via existing family entrance gate and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20512

• 14 Jul 2020Conditional

  Permission for dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, detached domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 20515

• 20 Apr 2018Conditional

  Permission sought for rear and side extension and front porch extension to existing dwelling including all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18297

• 1 Feb 2017Refused

  Permission for the purpose of carrying out a motor business, including a vehicle display and trading premises and associated site works.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 1755

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 Mountaintown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mountaintown.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Mountaintown, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Mountaintown · Sliabh Dhún Léire

Area

831,621 m² (83.16 ha, 205.5 acres)

Civil parish

Dunleer, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

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

Battsland, Cluide, Corstown, Dunleer, Newhall, Ravel, Trean

Placenames

Mountaintown 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.