Aghwater

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghwater, from 551 m² to 387,564 m² (38.76 ha, 95.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Aghwater 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Aghwater 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 the townland of Aghwater.

Recorded monuments

• CW008-093 Ring-ditch
  Description

  In tillage. A circular ring-ditch (diam. c. 10m) visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018). There is another ring-ditch (CW008-094----) c. 20m to the SE and one (CW008-096----) c. 245m to the NE and there are two slightly larger enclosures (CW008-095----; CW008-097----) c. 188m to the SW and c. 250m to the NE respectively. See attached: CW008-093----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) with enclosures highlighted Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 February 2020

• CW008-094 Ring-ditch
  Description

  In tillage. A circular ring-ditch (diam. c. 15m) visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018). There is another ring-ditch (CW008-093----) c. 20m to the NW and one (CW008-096----) c. 224m to the NE and there are two slightly larger enclosures (CW008-095----; CW008-097----) c. 150m to the SW and c. 233m to the NE respectively. See attached: CW008-094----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) with enclosures highlighted Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 February 2020

• CW008-095 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 23m) visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018). There is another enclosure (CW008-097----) c. 174m to the NE and three ring-ditches (CW008-093----; CW008-094---- and CW008-096----) c. 188m and c. 150m to the NW and c. 136m to the NE respectively. See attached: CW008-095----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) with enclosures highlighted Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 February 2020

• CW008-096 Ring-ditch
  Description

  In tillage. A circular ring-ditch (diam. c. 10m) visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018). There are two other ring-ditches (CW008-093---- and CW008-094----) c. 250m to the SW and two enclosures (CW008-095---- and CW008-097----) c. 136m to the WSW and c. 30m to the N respectively. See attached: CW008-096----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) with enclosures highlighted Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 February 2020

• CW008-097 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 28m) visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018). There is another enclosure (CW008-095----) c. 174m to the SW and three ring-ditches (CW008-093----; CW008-094---- and CW008-096----) c. 250m to the SW and the latter c. 30m to the S respectively. See attached: CW008-097----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) with enclosures highlighted Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 February 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Aghwater, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aghwater.

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 Aghwater with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Aghwater · Áth Uaitéir

Area

396,239 m² (39.62 ha, 97.91 acres)

Civil parish

Grangeford, and its townlands

Barony

Carlow

Electoral division

Grangeford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

589 people lived in 193 households in the Grangeford electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baunogenasraid, Grangeford Old, Moanalow, Moanamanagh

Placenames

Aghwater 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.