# Aghadown, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Aghadown, barony of Carbery West (East Division), Co. Cork; in Irish Achadh Dúin.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 854,285 m² (85.43 ha, 211.1 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,116 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Aghadown, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/aghadown.md
- Barony: Carbery West (East Division)
- Electoral division: Aghadown South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 623 people lived in 252 households in the Aghadown South electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/12902
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 40028
- Centre: latitude 51.54274, longitude -9.372722 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghadown, from 425 m² to 215,383 m² (21.54 ha, 53.22 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 2267584: 215,383 m² (21.54 ha, 53.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2267584.md
- Parcel 2267581: 188,200 m² (18.82 ha, 46.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2267581.md
- Parcel 2267577: 164,758 m² (16.48 ha, 40.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2267577.md
- Parcel 2267585: 126,482 m² (12.65 ha, 31.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2267585.md
- Parcel 5160164: 75,893 m² (7.59 ha, 18.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5160164.md
- Parcel 2267579: 35,105 m² (3.51 ha, 8.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2267579.md
- Parcel 2267578: 17,402 m² (1.74 ha, 4.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2267578.md
- Parcel 2267582: 5,963 m² (0.6 ha, 1.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2267582.md
- Parcel 2267580: 4,710 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2267580.md
- Parcel 2223004: 3,375 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2223004.md
- Parcel 2267586: 3,204 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2267586.md
- Parcel 2267587: 2,116 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2267587.md
- Parcel 2267591: 1,995 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2267591.md
- Parcel 2223005: 1,438 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2223005.md
- Parcel 5160166: 1,151 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5160166.md
- Parcel 2223006: 1,014 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2223006.md
- Parcel 2267590: 894 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2267590.md
- Parcel 2223007: 866 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2223007.md
- Parcel 2267583: 848 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2267583.md
- Parcel 2267588: 757 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2267588.md
- Parcel 2267589: 649 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2267589.md
- Parcel 2223008: 470 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2223008.md
- Parcel 5160153: 425 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5160153.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Aghadown 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)

5 applications, newest first.

- 12 Jul 2023, Cork County Council 23/387: Conditional. Permission. Permission to make alterations to the elevations of their dwellinghouse and for Permission to install a waste water treatment system with associated siteworks. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=23/387
- 16 Jun 2023, Cork County Council 23/322: Refused. Permission. To construct a dwelling house, install a wastewater treatment system and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=23/322
- 12 Feb 2009, Cork County Council 09/124: Refused. Permission. Dwellinghouse, installation of septic tank and other ancillary siteworks. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=09/124
- 10 Apr 2006, Cork County Council 06/622: Refused. Outline permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/622
- 20 Nov 2003, Cork County Council 03/5786: Refused. Outline permission. One and a half storey dwellinghouse and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=03/5786

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## 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 Aghadown.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- CO141-052001: Designed landscape - belvedere, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO141-052001-. Indicated on 1st ed. OS 6-inch map (1842) as 'Tower (in ruins)' adjacent to 'Ahgadown Castle (in ruins)' (CO141-052002-); by 3rd ed. OS 6-inch map (1944)' Aghadown Castle (site of)' indicated further to E. A rectangular platform (c. 11m E-W; 4.06m N-S; max. H 3.6m) now stands atop ridge with commanding view in all directions. Top of platform slopes down from W to E where it was approached by road coming up hill from Aghadown House (CO141-054002-). N face of platform has base batter; W face breaks off at springing of arch; at E end of S wall is projection with low front and concave corners. These appear to be remains of what Smith described in 1750 as 'a round tower, on its top, is a lanthorn, from whence is a prospect of the adjacent coast and islands'. (Smith 1815, vol. 1, 272). Known locally as the "gazebo". Tower (CO141-054001-) to E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO141-052002: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO141-052002-. The tower (CO141-052001-) which is shown immediately to W of castle on OS 6-inch map (1842) survives, but no visible remains of castle; base of N face of tower is battered. O'Murchadha (1985, 178) mentions Aghadown as an O'Driscoll castle, of which little is known. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO141-053: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO141-053----. On SE-facing slope overlooking Lough Marsh to S. Possible souterrain (UCC). No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO141-054001: Designed landscape - belvedere, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO141-054001-. On OS 6-inch map (1842) as 'Tower (in ruins)'; to E of Aghadown Castle (CO141-052002-) and tower (CO141-052001-), and W of Aghadown House (CO141-054002-). No visible surface remains. Known locally as a "pigeon house" and taken down c. 1916 (Healy 1988, 164). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO141-054002: House - fortified house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO141-054002-. On E-facing slope with extensive view to SE, overlooked from W by tower (CO141-052001-). Ivy-clad W end of house in modern farmyard. Straight section of wall (L 5.32m) linking remains of pointed turrets at SW and NW corners of original house. Straight wall stands only to ground level; remains of large fireplace on inside flanked by blocked rectangular window opes. Towers stand to two storeys (NW has basement); fireplaces on inside of pointed corner; hexagonal stack atop point of SW tower. Externally turrets only pointed at ground level; string course between ground and 1st floors. House of Beecher family built in 1670 according to local tradition (O'Donoghue 1985, 19). Original plan probably similiar to Rathfarnham Castle, Co. Dublin (Craig 1982, 116) reflecting design of star-shaped artillery fortifications (see CO118-002001-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO141-160: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO141-160----. In pasture, on a knoll on a steep S-facing slope overlooking Lough Marsh to the SE. This earth-cut souterrain was discovered by the landowner in 2007 when an opening appeared in the ground, following some clearance work on an adjacent field boundary that had been undertaken with machinery the previous day. The opening provided access to a small entrance chamber (1.8m E-W; 1.18m N-S; H 1.2m) the roof of which was 0.6m below the ground level of the field. This chamber narrowed towards its W end where a construction shaft opening (Wth 0.92m; H 0.75m), blocked with large stones, was visible. A creepway (H 0.43m; Wth 0.4m) on the S side of this chamber led into a second chamber (c. 1.6m N-S). This second chamber was larger than the entrance chamber, having a longer E-W axis. However, this measurement was not obtainable. There were two creepways in this second chamber: one at the SE and one at the W. The irregular-shaped creepway at the SE side of this chamber led into a third chamber. Material on the floor of the third chamber, immediately beyond the creepway area, appeared to contain some burnt material and two bones. This material was not inspected. The roughly oval-shaped creepway opening (Wth c. 0.7-0.8m) at the W side of the second chamber led into a fourth chamber which appeared to turn to the SW. It was not possible to inspect either the third or fourth chambers. Another souterrain (CO141-053----) is located on slightly higher ground, c. 270m to the NE. A six-chambered souterrain (CO141-098----) in the neighbouring townland of Loughmarsh was investigated in the early 1980s (Cleary 1981, 38-42). Some pig bones that showed butchering marks were found in one of the chambers in this latter souterrain. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Aghadown House, house, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 20914116, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO&regno=20914116. Detached three-bay single-storey house with half-dormers, built c.1800, remodelled c. 1900 and porch added to front (east) and block added to rear (west), forming double-pile plan. Recent lean-to extension to side (north). Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed openings to rear and sides with two-over-two and three-over-three timber sliding sash windows and concrete sills. Square-headed opening to front with concrete sills and replacement timber casement and fixed pane windows. Square-headed opening with paired timber fixed pane windows with decorative glazing bars and concrete sills. Square-headed door opening with timber glazed door, having chamfered panels. Outbuildings to side (north) and rear. Enclosed by rubble limestone walls with piers and wrought-iron gates.

## 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 Aghadown, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aghadown.
- 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/cork/aghadown.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/aghadown.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/aghadown.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Aghadown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Bigmarsh: https://everytownland.com/cork/bigmarsh.md
- Hollyhill: https://everytownland.com/cork/hollyhill-43161.md
- Kilsarlaght: https://everytownland.com/cork/kilsarlaght.md
- Knockeen: https://everytownland.com/cork/knockeen-43777.md
- Laheratanvally: https://everytownland.com/cork/laheratanvally.md
- Loughmarsh: https://everytownland.com/cork/loughmarsh.md
- Paddock: https://everytownland.com/cork/paddock-44600.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.

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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.

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