Arclintagh
Arclintagh is a townland in the civil parish of Clontibret, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Ard Cluainte.
- Area
- 58.7 ha
- 145 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 35,875 m² (3.59 ha, 8.86 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Arclintagh, from 522 m² to 86,348 m² (8.63 ha, 21.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Arclintagh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
13 Aug 2026Conditional
permission and retention permission for development consists of; retention of extension to front porch, and also will consist of; construction of two storey rear and side extension, re-location of existing site entrance, new wastewater treatment system, alterations and additions to interior and exterior of existing dwelling, entrance walls, piers and gates, boundary fencing, revised boundaries and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2660339
10 Oct 2025Conditional
planning permission to erect a single storey dwelling, treatment plant, percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560406
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Arclintagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Arclintagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Arclintagh.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Arclintagh, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Arclintagh.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Arclintagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Arclintagh · Ard Cluainte
- Area
- 587,384 m² (58.74 ha, 145.15 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clontibret, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cremorne
- Electoral division
- Clontibret, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 792 people lived in 263 households in the Clontibret electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghnameal, Avalbane, Creeve, Letteragh, Letterbane
- Placenames
- Arclintagh 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.