Aghacunna
Aghacunna is a townland in the civil parish of Kilnamartery, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Áth an Chonnaidh.
- Area
- 162.7 ha
- 402 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 16,611 m² (1.66 ha, 4.1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghacunna, from 539 m² to 227,640 m² (22.76 ha, 56.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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
No zone of a development plan covers Aghacunna 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
28 Feb 2025Conditional
Permission to retain dwelling as constructed (change of plan and layout from that permitted under Planning Ref. No. S/01/2191) and all associated site works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 25/4317
2 Jan 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 07/4015
16 Aug 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9809
21 Mar 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/5722
17 Feb 2006Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/4866
6 Dec 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/9007
27 Jun 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/4529
30 May 2005Refused
2 no. dwellinghouses
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/3720
27 Apr 2005Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2757
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 Aghacunna.
Recorded monuments
- CO070-093 Standing stone
Description
Not shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Shown as single standing stone and marked 'Gallaun' on 1904 OS 6-inch map. In pasture, on NW-facing slope. Removed; no visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghacunna.
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 Aghacunna, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aghacunna.
- 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 Aghacunna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Aghacunna · Áth an Chonnaidh
- Area
- 1,626,691 m² (162.67 ha, 401.96 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilnamartery, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Candroma, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 333 people lived in 123 households in the Candroma electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyvoge, Cloonshear More, Coolcaum, Cooleen, Knockroe, Lisboy Beg, Lisboy More, Silvergrove
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Aghacunna 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.