# Acarreagh, Co. Louth: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Castletown, barony of Dundalk Upper, Co. Louth; in Irish An tAcra Riabhach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 432,474 m² (43.25 ha, 106.87 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 12,477 m² (1.25 ha, 3.08 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): O1 Strategic Reserve, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Castletown, https://everytownland.com/louth/parish/castletown.md - Barony: Dundalk Upper - Electoral division: Castletown, the unit of the census - County: Co. Louth, https://everytownland.com/louth.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33720 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 140001 - Centre: latitude 54.007892, longitude -6.440928 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Acarreagh, from 145 m² to 83,948 m² (8.39 ha, 20.74 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5972902: 83,948 m² (8.39 ha, 20.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5972902.md - Parcel 5972886: 65,667 m² (6.57 ha, 16.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5972886.md - Parcel 1126287: 61,427 m² (6.14 ha, 15.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1126287.md - Parcel 1132202: 50,261 m² (5.03 ha, 12.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1132202.md - Parcel 1094634: 38,002 m² (3.8 ha, 9.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1094634.md - Parcel 5972905: 37,466 m² (3.75 ha, 9.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5972905.md - Parcel 2690216: 33,107 m² (3.31 ha, 8.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2690216.md - Parcel 4635316: 28,492 m² (2.85 ha, 7.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4635316.md - Parcel 2690207: 18,166 m² (1.82 ha, 4.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2690207.md - Parcel 2690197: 6,788 m² (0.68 ha, 1.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2690197.md - Parcel 4635326: 4,593 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4635326.md - Parcel 5972872: 3,582 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5972872.md - Parcel 5979807: 1,259 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5979807.md - Parcel 5980319: 584 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5980319.md - Parcel 5972936: 448 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5972936.md - Parcel 5979815: 408 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5979815.md - Parcel 5972910: 396 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5972910.md - Parcel 5980841: 145 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5980841.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - O1 Strategic Reserve (Strategic reserve, White land): Louth County Development Plan, Louth; 10 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.louthcoco.ie/en/publications/development-plans/louth-county-development-plan-2021-2027/ - C2.1 General Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment): Louth County Development Plan, Louth; 7 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.louthcoco.ie/en/publications/development-plans/louth-county-development-plan-2021-2027/ - G1 Open Space (Open space, park): Louth County Development Plan, Louth; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.louthcoco.ie/en/publications/development-plans/louth-county-development-plan-2021-2027/ - R4 New Residential Phase 2 (Strategic Residential Reserve): Louth County Development Plan, Louth; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.louthcoco.ie/en/publications/development-plans/louth-county-development-plan-2021-2027/ - R2 Existing Residential (Existing residential): Louth County Development Plan, Louth; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.louthcoco.ie/en/publications/development-plans/louth-county-development-plan-2021-2027/ - R1 New Residential Phase 1 (New/proposed residential): Louth County Development Plan, Louth; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.louthcoco.ie/en/publications/development-plans/louth-county-development-plan-2021-2027/ ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 27 Nov 2025, Louth County Council 2560768: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560768/0 - 25 Apr 2025, Louth County Council 2560237: Conditional. Permission. Permission for development consisting of one number over ground slurry storage tower and all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560237/0 - 1 Mar 2019, Louth County Council 19150: N/a. Permission, 1 home. Permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/19150/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Acarreagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Acarreagh. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Acarreagh. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2991.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/louth/acarreagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/louth/acarreagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/louth/acarreagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Acarreagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth: https://everytownland.com/louth.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Donaghmore: https://everytownland.com/louth/donaghmore.md - Lisnawully: https://everytownland.com/louth/lisnawully.md - Newtownbalregan: https://everytownland.com/louth/newtownbalregan.md - Tankardsrock: https://everytownland.com/louth/tankardsrock.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/louth/acarreagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/louth/acarreagh