Maine

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maine, from 96 m² to 609,663 m² (60.97 ha, 150.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Maine 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.

• 28 Apr 2022Conditional

  permission for the demolition of existing single storey rear extension, proposed front porch and storey and a half/single storey rear extension, removal of existing septic tank and provision of replacement proprietary effluent treatment system and Puraflo units, and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 22343

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 Maine.

Recorded monuments

• LH015-028 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  A house at Maine (16) close to the river in Kilsarin parish is marked on the Down Survey (1656-8) barony map, for which see this web-page accessed no 6 May 2016 http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Atherdee&c=Louth There is a local tradition of castle in a field known as the 'Pier Field' or 'Cul Cille' (IFC Schools MSS 671. 9, 11), for which wee this web-page accessed on 6 May, 2016http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5008854/4961308 The precise location is not known. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 17 July 2007

• LH015-046 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a level landscape with the meandering estuary of the NW-SE River Glyde c. 520m to the NE and a meander of the SW-NE River Dee c. 600m to the S. It is c. 900m W of where both rivers meet before entering the sea. An oval enclosure (dims c. 63m N-S; c. 58m E-W) defined by a single fosse feature is visible on OSI aerial photographs (1995), which were first identified by Ivor Kenny. It is also faintly visible on Bing images (c. 2012) and is probably a rath. See the attached enhanced view from OSAP (1995) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 19 December, 2014

• LH015-047001 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on the low-lying ground of the estuary of the meandering NW-SE River Glyde, which is c. 265m to the NE and the SW-NE River Dee, which joins it from the S c. 400m to the E. A D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 70m N-S; c. 60m E-W) is defined by a single fosse feature that has a wide entrance gap (Wth c. 10m) at SSE. It has a rectangular annexe (dims c. 70m N-S; c. 10m at S to c. 25m at N) defined by a single fosse feature attached to the perimeter SSW-NNW. The field system (LH015-047002-) is around it but it is not directly connected with it. The enclosure was first identified by Ivor Kenny and is also faintly visible on Bing images (c. 2012). See the enhanced aerial view from OSAP (1995) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 19 December, 2014

• LH015-047002 Field system
  Description

  Situated on the low-lying ground of the estuary of the meandering NW-SE River Glyde, which is c. 265m to the NE and the SW-NE River Dee, which joins it from the S c. 400m to the E. The D-shaped enclosure (LH015-047001-) is within an system of irregular fields (max. dims c. 70m x c. 70m) defined by single fosse or drain features but the enclosure is not directly connected with them. The fields cover an area of c. 20 acres (c. 8ha) and might be no more than an attempt to drain the land. It was first identified by Ivor Kenny. See the attached enhanced aerial view from OSAP (1995) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 19 December, 2014

• LH015-048 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a rise in a low-lying fairly level landscape in the estuary of the NW-SE Glyde River, which is c. 900m to the NE and a mender of the W-E River Dee, which is c. 600m to the SE. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a single fosse feature with an entrance gap at SE is visible on the OSI series of aerial photographs (1995) and there is a bush or scrub at the centre. It was first identified by Ivor Kenny and it may represent drainage around rock-outcrop. See the attached enhanced aerial view from OSAP (1995) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 19 December, 2014

• LH015-052 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated on a level, low-lying landscape. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 6m) defined by a continuous fosse is faintly visible on Digital Globe images (c. 2013). It is also visible on Google Earth (12/07/2013). Ring-ditch (LH015-053----) is c. 100m to the ENE, and it was first reported by Ken Williams. See the attached enhanced aerial view (centre left) from Digital Globe Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 June 2021

• LH015-053 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated on a level, low-lying landscape. The cropmark of a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 4m) defined by a continuous fosse is faintly visible on Digital Globe images (c. 2013). It is also visible on Google Earth (12/07/2013) and a quarry or pit (diam. c. 9m) is c. 6m to the SE. The ring-ditch (LH015-052----) is c. 100m to the WSW, and it was first reported by Ken Williams. See the attached enhanced image (top right) from Digital Globe (c. 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore

• LH015-054 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a slight E-facing slope with the River Dee c. 180m to the E, and the enclosure was probably at the water’s edge at one time. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) defined by a fosse is faintly visible in interrupted sections on Digital Globe (c. 2013). It is overlain by a NE-SW ditch from a field bank that is depicted on the 1835 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. It is also visible on OSI images (1995) and Google Earth (12/078/2013), and it was first reported by Ken Williams. See the enhanced image from Digital Globe (c. 2013) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 June 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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).

No address of the register names Maine with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Maine · Maighean an Bhradáin

Area

2,668,607 m² (266.86 ha, 659.43 acres)

Civil parish

Kilsaran, and its townlands

Barony

Ardee

Electoral division

Castlebellingham, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Adamstown, Castlebellingham, Drumcar, Greenmount, Linns, Milestown, Willistown

Placenames

Maine on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.