Aghaway
Townland in the civil parish of Larah, barony of Tullygarvey, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 132.4 ha
- 327 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 20,167 m² (2.02 ha, 4.98 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghaway, from 335 m² to 197,168 m² (19.72 ha, 48.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Aghaway 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
27 Jul 2021Conditional
to construct a four bay slatted shed with slurry holding tank underneath and all associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 21467
3 Jul 2020Conditional
for development consisting of: A 10 year permission for the construction of an energy storage system comprising (i) a single storey control building and associated compound area with palisade fencing to an overall height of up to 2.95m; (ii) containerised energy storage modules placed on concrete plinth foundations; (iii) electrical transformer and inverter modules; (iv) heating, ventilation and air conditioning units; (v) site access tracks; (vi) underground electrical and telecommunications cabling; (vii) CCTV security monitoring system; (viii) all ancillary electrical and communications equipment; and (ix) all associated site development, drainage and reinstatement works. This planning application is also accompanied by an Appropriate Assessment Screening Report
Permission · Cavan County Council, 20268
2 Jul 2018Conditional
for increased fence height from that granted under Pl. Ref. 15/84 and all ancillary works at Aghaway 38KV Substation
Retention · Cavan County Council, 18286
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 Aghaway.
Recorded monuments
- CV021-004 Megalithic structure
Description
This is a grassy mound 15m long NW-SE, 5m wide NE-SW and 0.75m high. A block of stone, 1.5m in maximum dimension, lies at the SE corner of the mound and the tops of a number of stones protrude above its surface. The nature of the feature is uncertain. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 138, No. 7) 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
- CV021-005 Ringfort - rath
Description
An earlier report (OPW 1970) described a raised circular area (int. dims. 44.5m NE-SW; 44m NW-SE) enclosed by an earthen bank and fosse. Original entrance was probably at N. Site has been levelled. Not visible at ground level. 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 Aghaway.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aghaway.
- 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 Aghaway with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Aghaway
- Area
- 1,323,909 m² (132.39 ha, 327.15 acres)
- Civil parish
- Larah, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tullygarvey
- Electoral division
- Larah North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Larah North electoral division: 478 people in 161 households; 91% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghadrumgowna or Calf Field, Artonagh, Cornakill, Drumchoe, Drummole, Lappanbane
- Placenames
- Aghaway 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.