Aghafad

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghafad, from 25,640 m² (2.56 ha, 6.34 acres) to 206,812 m² (20.68 ha, 51.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Aghafad 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.

• 27 May 2022Conditional

  to retain and complete/extend 1 No. Feed Store / Feed Preparation Store, constructed/to be constructed, in lieu of 1 No. Feed Preparation store previously approved under Planning Ref: 18/425, together with all ancillary structures (to include meal bins etc.) and all associated site works arising from the above proposed development

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 22207

• 17 Oct 2018Conditional

  to decommission 5 No. existing pig houses, to construct 3 No. pig houses and 1 No. feed preparation store and to retain 2 No. existing pig houses, together with all ancillary structures (to include meal bins etc) and all associated site works arising from the above proposed development. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 18425

• 19 Apr 2017Conditional

  to construct a two storey dwelling with a detached domestic garage, sewerage treatment unit, percolation area, erect new entrance walls and piers and all associated site works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17154

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 Aghafad.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghafad.

Architectural heritage

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

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

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, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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 Aghafad with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Aghafad

Area

281,524 m² (28.15 ha, 69.57 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymachugh, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmahon

Electoral division

Ballymachugh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

838 people lived in 276 households in the Ballymachugh electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghacreevy, Ballina, Drumeeny, Mullaghboy, Tawlaght

Placenames

Aghafad 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.