# Aghafad, Co. Cavan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballymachugh, barony of Clanmahon, Co. Cavan. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 281,524 m² (28.15 ha, 69.57 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 52,032 m² (5.2 ha, 12.86 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballymachugh, https://everytownland.com/cavan/parish/ballymachugh.md - Barony: Clanmahon - Electoral division: Ballymachugh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Cavan, https://everytownland.com/cavan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/4440 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 20015 - Centre: latitude 53.829241, longitude -7.358926 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 436125: 206,812 m² (20.68 ha, 51.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/436125.md - Parcel 4906228: 52,032 m² (5.2 ha, 12.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4906228.md - Parcel 442789: 25,640 m² (2.56 ha, 6.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/442789.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 27 May 2022, Cavan County Council 22207: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22207/0 - 17 Oct 2018, Cavan County Council 18425: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/18425/0 - 19 Apr 2017, Cavan County Council 17154: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/CavanCC/AppFileRefDetails/17154/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Aghafad. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghafad. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghafad. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Aghafad, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Aghafad. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cavan/aghafad.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cavan/aghafad.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cavan/aghafad.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Aghafad with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan: https://everytownland.com/cavan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghacreevy: https://everytownland.com/cavan/aghacreevy.md - Ballina: https://everytownland.com/cavan/ballina.md - Drumeeny: https://everytownland.com/cavan/drumeeny.md - Mullaghboy: https://everytownland.com/cavan/mullaghboy-21632.md - Tawlaght: https://everytownland.com/cavan/tawlaght-21851.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cavan/aghafad - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cavan/aghafad