Acarreagh

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Acarreagh, from 145 m² to 83,948 m² (8.39 ha, 20.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• O1Strategic Reserve (Strategic reserve, White land)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1General Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4New Residential Phase 2 (Strategic Residential Reserve)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential Phase 1 (New/proposed residential)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 27 Nov 2025Conditional

  Large-scale Residential Development Application (LRD) - see www.northdundalklrd.com - for a 10-year permission at a site (c. 38.89ha) bounded generally by the Castletown Road/R934 to the north, Mount Avenue and Cú Chulainn’s Castle (a protected structure - RPS ref: LH00701) to the east, Greyacre Road to the west, and existing agricultural lands to the south within the Townlands of Newtownbalregan, Castletown, and Farrandreg, at Mount Avenue, Castletown. The development proposed comprises of 1,058no. dwellings consisting of 765no. houses total (10no. 2 bedroom bungalows, 34no. 2 bedroom 2-storey houses, 547no. 3-bedroom 2-storey houses, 174no. 4-bedroom 2-storey houses), 150no. duplex units (33no. 1 bedroom duplex units, 75no. 2 bedroom duplex units 42no. 3 bedroom duplex units) located in 3 storey buildings and 143 no. apartment units (78no. 1 bedroom apartment units, 65no. 2 bedroom apartment units located within 4no. apartment buildings ranging in height from 4 to 6 storey’s in height. 2no. duplex units (unit type Q) include an option to accommodate a temporary childcare facility at ground floor level if required; a local centre comprising 3 no. retail units (c. 459sqm, 240sqm and 230sqm respectively) and a community/medical unit (c. 245sqm); provision of a stand-alone childcare facility in a 2 storey building (974 sqm); 2no. new vehicular entrances are proposed to serve the development forming new junctions at Castletown Road/R934 and Mount Avenue respectively; provision of public open space (c. 5.1Ha) within the residential development, including provision of a playing pitch (c. 1.17Ha); provision of a Heritage Park on the lands surrounding Cú Chulainn’s Castle to the east (Cú Chulainn’s Castle is not within the application site or ownership and is a protected structure (RPS ref: LH00701)) and incorporates a Standing Stone (a protected structure - RPS ref: LH00700) within the Heritage Park; all associated and ancillary site development and infrastructural works, hard and soft landscaping and boundary treatment works including internal roads and streets (including an Arterial Link Street connecting with Castletown Road/R934), public, communal, and private open space; a mobility hub with provision for EV Charging is provided at the local centre; car parking (including EV charging), bike parking; public lighting; 10 no. ESB substations; bin stores; provision of a foul sewage pumping station; laying a foul rising main along Castletown Road from the prop

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2560768

• 25 Apr 2025Conditional

  Permission for development consisting of one number over ground slurry storage tower and all associated site works.

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2560237

• 1 Mar 2019N/a

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

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19150

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 Acarreagh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Acarreagh.

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2991 (ZIP).

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

Name

Acarreagh · An tAcra Riabhach

Area

432,474 m² (43.25 ha, 106.87 acres)

Civil parish

Castletown, and its townlands

Barony

Dundalk Upper

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Donaghmore, Lisnawully, Newtownbalregan, Tankardsrock

Placenames

Acarreagh 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.