Aghavaddy
Townland in the civil parish of Denn, barony of Loughtee Upper, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 36.8 ha
- 91 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 6,210 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghavaddy, from 2,255 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) to 125,847 m² (12.58 ha, 31.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Aghavaddy 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
No planning application touches the townland of Aghavaddy 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.
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 Aghavaddy.
Recorded monuments
- CV032-002 Ringfort - rath
Description
Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 38m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank. Break in bank at SE may represent original entrance. Iron slag found at the site in early 1980s (local information). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
- CV032-003 Ringfort - rath
Description
An earlier report (OPW 1974) described a raised circular area (int. diam. c. 38m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a fosse. Since then the site has been levelled. The perimeter has been modified and incorporated into the field boundary from SW-NW. From E-SE-S it is identifiable as a low scarp. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghavaddy.
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aghavaddy.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Aghavaddy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Aghavaddy
- Area
- 367,800 m² (36.78 ha, 90.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Denn, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughtee Upper
- Electoral division
- Denn, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Denn electoral division: 707 people in 245 households; 90% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Corlateerin, Derry, Drumegil, Killynanum, Lonnogs
- Placenames
- Aghavaddy 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.