Agharue

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Agharue, from 23 m² to 235,781 m² (23.58 ha, 58.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Agharue 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.

• 13 May 2024Refused

  see public notices for full description of works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2460122

• 7 May 2024N/a

  see public notices for full description of works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2460114

• 28 Nov 2023Conditional

  Modifications to the existing field entrance facilitating a new farmyard and residential entrance with new access road. Extensions to existing farm buildings to include new dairy unit, cubicle house and underground slatted effluent tank. Unroofed slatted underground effluent tank for use as a cow collecting yard. Silage base and effluent tank. All ancillary drainage and site services as constructed. Permission is sought to construct a new roofed structure over the existing cow collecting yard with an extension to the existing feed passage and a new calf rearing unit. Permission also sought to extend an existing roof to cover the existing cattle handling facility

  Retention · Carlow County Council, 2360277

• 24 Nov 2023N/a

  Retention permission is sought for the following at Agharue, Bilboa, Carlow: 1) Modifications to the existing field entrance facilitating a new farmyard and residential entrance with new access road 2) Extensions to existing farm buildings to include new dairy unit, cubicle house and underground slatted effluent tank 3) Unroofed slatted underground effluent tank for use as a cow collecting yard 4) Silage base and effluent tank 5) All ancillary drainage and site services as constructed. Permission is sought to construct a new roofed structure over the existing cow collecting yard with an extension to the existing feed passage and a new calf rearing unit. Permission also sought to extend an existing roof to cover the existing cattle handling facility.

  Retention · Carlow County Council, 2360274

• 5 Oct 2021Conditional

  Permission to construct a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance, bored well, proprietary treatment system and associated percolation area and all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 21377

• 10 Sept 2021N/a

  Permission to construct a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new site entrance, bored well, proprietary treatment system and associated percolation area and all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 21342

• 11 Jun 2020Conditional

  for the installation of approximately 4.6 kilometres (km) of underground cables within the Carlow County Council (CCC) boundary and approximately 2.0 km within the Laois County Council (LCC) boundary with a voltage of up to 38 kilovolts and associated works, including a new substation within LCC, for the connection of the consented Bilboa Wind Farm (Planning Register References: Carlow County Council 11/154; An Bord Pleanala PL 01.240245) to the national electricity grid; upgrading of an existing forestry track within CCC; construction of two new onsite access tracks within CCC; re-orientation and increasing in size of a crane hardstanding within CCC; and road strengthening and widening along an updated turbine delivery route, within LCC, pursuant to the consented Bilboa Wind Farm (Planning Register References; Carlow County Council 11/154; An Bord Pleanala PL 01.240245). The application is accompanied by a Planning Report, Environmental Impact Assessment Report and Natura Impact Statement.

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 20180

• 15 Jul 2019N/a

  to modify an existing field entrance to accommodate a dual entrance and to construct a new access road to dwelling and farmyard with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 19280

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• CW011-001 Moated site
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Rectangular area (42m N-S, 14.6m E-W) enclosed by low bank with external fosse on three sides and steep natural slope to river at W. Fosse at S is chiefly stream bed, now dry.

• CW011-002 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Large steep-sided mound with rounded summit (H 3m; base diam. c. 23m). Summit disturbed and overgrown but appears to be relatively small. Traces of fosse and possible levelled bank enclose mound.

• CW011-003 Earthwork
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Haggard outlined with hachures in addition to field boundary on 1839 'OS 6-inch' map (max. dims. c. 40m NW-SE x 30m NE-SW). May indicate an antiquity. Haggard boundary now levelled.

Architectural heritage

• Black Bridge, bridge, 1865–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch rubble limestone road bridge over river, c.1875, on site of earlier bridge, pre-1840. Irregular coursed squared rubble limestone walls with battered piers having rock-faced dressed limestone quoins, cut-limestone stringcourse supporting parapet having cut-stone date stone/plaque, and part ivy-clad cut-limestone coping. Single segmental arch with rock-faced cut-limestone voussoirs, and tooled limestone ashlar soffits. Sited spanning Dinin River with overgrown grass banks to river.

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

At the centre of the townland of Agharue, 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 Agharue.

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.

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

Name

Agharue · An tÁth Rua

Area

2,892,897 m² (289.29 ha, 714.85 acres)

Civil parish

Tullowcreen, and its townlands

Barony

Idrone West

Electoral division

Rathornan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

438 people lived in 135 households in the Rathornan electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boolyvannanan, Coan East (Co. Kilkenny), Coolcullen (Co. Kilkenny), Coolnakisha, Ridge, Seskinrea

Placenames

Agharue 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.