Planning Permission Ireland

Planning register

Clogherhead

Planning applications inside the Clogherhead, Co. Louth settlement, as recorded on the statutory register. The area is the CSO’s Census 2022 urban boundary.

Applications
163
County
Louth

What the data shows

The planning register for Clogherhead contains a total of 163 applications, with recent lodgements showing 15 applications in 2023, 20 in 2024, and 13 in 2025. Since 2016, there has been an 86% grant rate out of 111 applications that were granted, refused, or part-granted, which consists of 96 granted, 15 refused, and 0 part-granted. The most common development types in the area are new dwellings at 31%, extensions at 31%, retentions at 10%, and alterations at 7%. Recent decided examples in the area were all granted, including permissions for a demolition and extension, retention of a storage container, an extension for a family flat, retention of a domestic garage and garden, alterations to an approved development, and a single storey flat roof extension.

An automated reading of the figures on this page. Every statement reflects the register data shown above; it is not advice or a prediction.

Planning intelligence

Grant rate

86%

of 111 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted
96
Refused
15
No decision recorded
52

Historical outcomes from the statutory register. Not a prediction for any individual application.

What’s being built

New dwelling
31%
Extension
31%
Retention
10%
Alterations
7%
Housing estate
4%
Commercial
4%

Grant rate by category

How each kind of application has been decided in Clogherhead, 2017–2026.

CategoryGrantedDecidedNationally
Extension97%3495%
New dwelling71%3482%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded. Categories with fewer than 30 decided applications are not listed, because a rate over a handful of applications would not mean anything.

Activity over time

Applications lodged, by year

Grant rate, by year of decision

Recently lodged in Clogherhead

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Contains Irish Public Sector Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Settlement boundary: CSO Census 2022 urban areas (Tailte Éireann). Always confirm against the relevant authority’s official register.