Athclare

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Athclare, from 50 m² to 561,458 m² (56.15 ha, 138.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Athclare 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.

• 8 Jun 2021Conditional

  Permission for development that will consist of dwelling house, detached domestic garage wastewater treatment system and percolation area *Significant Further Information submitted 29/9/21 which includes revised plans for the dwelling house.*

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 21713

• 8 Jun 2021Conditional

  Retention Permission and Permission for development that will consist of a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation. Retention Permission for temporary mobile home and all associated site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 21714

• 8 Jul 2019Conditional

  Permission for proposed one and a half storey design dwelling house, on-site well, installation of proprietary waste water treatment system/percolation area, new vehicular entrance from public road, together with associated site works. *Significant Further Information received on 30/09/2019*.

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19543

• 27 Jul 2018Conditional

  Retention permission sought for as constructed elevations to existing garage including storage space to first floor and access stairs to same & Retention permission for as constructed side and rear elevations to existing dwelling in relation to original grant of permission for both structures 051142.

  Retention, 1 home · Louth County Council, 18596

• 1 Sept 2017Conditional

  Permission for development that will consist of a proposed one and half storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage on-site well, proprietary waste water treatment system, new vehicular access and associated site works.

  Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 17649

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 Athclare.

Recorded monuments

• LH018-040 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Built of roughly coursed limestone and greywacke rubble with limestone quoins, vertically set. It has a slight batter and is three storeys high over a N-S barrel vault. The castle is almost square in plan (c. 10m N-S, 8m E-W) with a stairwell in the SE angle and garderobes in the diagonally opposite one. The tower house was not accessible when visited in 1985 and the ground-floor level is being used as a farm building. More recent buildings used as part of the farmyard are attached to the W side of the tower house. They represent the remains of a house built when the tower house was abandoned. The now-occupied house is attached to the W end of the former dwelling. There is a loop at ground level in the N facade constructed of hammer- and punch-dressed limestone with a single round-headed arch stone. There are two modern doorways in the E facade. That at the SE angle leads to the spiral stair which is now broken and not accessible. The other, which is in the centre of the wall, gives access to the barrel-vaulted area. There is no visible evidence of the original doorways. There is a cross-loop with expanded terminals in the N wall of the stairwell about three quarters of the way up from the ground level, and a large window at the W end of the S wall, now blocked, close to the top (i.e. third storey). The ope in the lower part of the N wall and the cross-loop in the stairwell indicate that this tower house is relatively late in the series. According to Tempest (CLAJ 1947, 186) the castle contained two large ornamental fireplaces. The one at the first-floor level was chamfered, punch-dressed and decorated with a pattern of ivy-like leaves. The other one was removed and re-set in the house adjoining at the W. It was decorated with a running pattern of leaves in relief and a quadruped with back-turned head. These cannot now be viewed because the present owner will not allow access owing to the dangerous condition of the building, but assurance was given that they were still in place. (CLAJ 1924, 267-8; CLAJ 1948, 314) 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 upload: 17 July 2007

Architectural heritage

• Athclare Castle, castle/fortified house, 1500–1600 · National interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay three-storey tower house, built c. 1550, extended c. 1650. Rectangular-plan, tower to east. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, red brick corbelled chimneystack, c.1970, half-round gutters on corbelled eaves course, circular cast-iron downpipes; corbelled stone parapet to tower. Random rubble stone walling, stone quoins, stone string course to parapet. Pointed arch, square-headed window openings, some uPVC windows; arrow loops to north, south and east including decorative arrow loop to first floor south elevation, stone surrounds. Pointed arch door opening to south, dressed limestone voussoirs, steel gate; square-headed door openings to north, smooth rendered surrounds, uPVC and timber and glazed doors,. Two-storey house directly abuts castle to west. Single- and two-storey outbuildings to north forming courtyard c. 1840; hipped and pitched slate roofs, random rubble stone walling, segmental-headed window openings, red brick surrounds, painted timber casements; segmental- and square-headed door openings, red brick surrounds, painted timber vertically timber sheeted doors and metal roller shutters.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Athclare.

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

Name

Athclare · Áth Cláir

Area

1,095,707 m² (109.57 ha, 270.76 acres)

Civil parish

Dunleer, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

Electoral division

Dunleer, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunleer electoral division: 3,270 people in 1,088 households; 74% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Burren, Castletown, Drumin, Hammondstown, Listulk, Stirue, Stonehouse, Woodland

Placenames

Athclare 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.