Aclint
Aclint is a townland in the civil parish of Philipstown (Ardee Ra), barony of Ardee, Co. Louth. Its name in Irish is Béal Átha Claonta.
Parcel 1123807
- Area
- 44,125 m² (4.41 ha, 10.9 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Aclint
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 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 low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 149.6 ha
- 370 acres
- Land parcels
- 68
- registered freehold, median 8,352 m² (0.84 ha, 2.06 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
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 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 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
15 Sept 2026N/a
Permission for the change of use dressing rooms, granted permission ref no. 02140 to residential accommodation including internal and external alterations to existing structure and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 2660635
4 Sept 2026N/a
Permission for the change of use of dressing rooms granted permission under Ref No. 02140 to residential accommodation including internal and external alterations to existing structure and all associated site works
Permission · Louth County Council, 2660602
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.
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 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Aclint, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aclint.
- 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 Aclint with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- 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
- 711 people lived in 234 households in the Clonkeen electoral division. 92% of households owned 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.