Aclint

68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aclint, from 65 m² to 221,459 m² (22.15 ha, 54.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Aclint 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.

• 24 Jun 2026N/a

  Change of Use of dressing rooms to residential accommodation including internal and external alterations to existing structure and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660412

• 3 Oct 2024Refused

  Planning permission for a proposed dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new vehicular entrance onto public road and all associated site development works *Significant Further Information Received on 16/05/2025*

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2460588

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 Aclint.

Recorded monuments

• LH010-012 Souterrain
  Description

  The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Local tradition of souterrain, which was opened in early twentieth century, to NW of Aclint motte (LH010-013----). Inaccessible at time of survey.

• LH010-013 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  The site consists of a large flat-topped mound (diam. of base c. 36m; top c. 15m, H c. 8m) with a deep wide fosse (Wth c. 9m, D c. 1.7m) and a sub-rectangular bailey (c. 37m by 36m, H c. 1.7m) at the SE. It is sited on a long drumlin overlooking the Lagan River. On the summit of the motte there is a circular area (diam. c. 5m) enclosed by a low bank, probably the remains of a superstructure. A very slight fosse is visible along the SE side of the bailey. At the time of inspection it could be seen that the upper two thirds of the mound were composed of earth and stone. In places the bailey is up to 1.7m above ground level and its surrounding fosse is up to 0.65m deep. (CLAJ 1924, 279) The above description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 17 July 2007

• LH010-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a N-facing slope. The faint cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 35m) defined by a single fosse feature is visible only on Google Earth (29/06/2018), but the fosse appears to be absent S-W. It was first reported by Anthony Murphy. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 November 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Aclint · Béal Átha Claonta

Area

1,496,360 m² (149.64 ha, 369.76 acres)

Civil parish

Philipstown (Ardee Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Clonkeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonkeen electoral division: 711 people in 234 households; 92% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Annahean (Co. Monaghan), Calga, Drumard, Drumgeeny (Co. Monaghan), Edmondstown, Reaghstown

Placenames

Aclint 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.