Aghnadrung
Aghnadrung is a townland in the civil parish of Lurgan, barony of Castlerahan, Co. Cavan.
- Area
- 28.2 ha
- 70 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 2,873 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghnadrung, from 675 m² to 4,210 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Cavan County Development Plan incorporating Variation No1 2022-2028, Cavan · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Dec 2024Conditional
to construct 78 no. dwellings and 1 no. single storey creche to complete existing residential development known as “The Drumlins". (“The Drumlins” development was previously approved planning application ref. no.'s 04/2182 & 05/907). The works comprise of the construction of the following: (A) remove 19 no. existing partially constructed dwellings (B) 2 no. 4 bed two storey detached dwellings, (C) 34 no. 4 bed two storey semi-detached dwellings, (D) 2 no. 3 bed two storey detached dwellings, (E) 32 no. 3 bed two storey semi-detached dwellings, (F) 8 no. 3 bed dormer bungalow semi-detached dwellings (G) form connections to all public services, complete all service roads, footpaths, together with all associated site works - SIGNIFICANT FURTHER INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED
Permission, 75 homes · Cavan County Council, 2460650
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 Aghnadrung.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghnadrung.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghnadrung.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Aghnadrung, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aghnadrung.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Aghnadrung with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Aghnadrung
- Area
- 281,654 m² (28.17 ha, 69.6 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lurgan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlerahan
- Electoral division
- Virginia, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 5,210 people lived in 1,733 households in the Virginia electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Curracloghan, Mullaghmore, Murmod, Rahardrum
- Placenames
- Aghnadrung 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.