Aghafore
Aghafore is a townland in the civil parish of Abbeymahon, barony of Ibane and Barryroe, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Achadh Phóire.
- Area
- 116.5 ha
- 288 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 5,917 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 21
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghafore, from 653 m² to 183,460 m² (18.35 ha, 45.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Aghafore 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
29 Jul 2022Conditional
Construct two no. cattle houses, two no. slatted slurry tanks, two. no slatted soiled water tanks, construct a roof over existing open slurry storage tank, construct a roof over existing steel overground slurry storage tank, construct an earth walled bund to existing steel overground slurry storage tank, relocate existing soiled water storage tank and carry out all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5787
15 Apr 2021Conditional
Change of use of existing farm outbuilding into single dwelling. Construction of two storey extension and canopy to the building. Alterations to existing building, reroofing, new windows and rooflights. Construction of new landscaping and the installation of a wastewater treatment system for the dwelling.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4981
17 Feb 2021Incompleted application
Change of use of existing farm outbuilding into single dwelling. Construction of two storey extension and canopy to the building. Alterations to existing building, reroofing, new windows and rooflights. Construction of new landscaping and the installation of a wastewater treatment system for the dwelling.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4378
29 Sept 2017Conditional
Construction of a two storey dwelling house wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/644
28 Feb 2017Conditional
Demolition of existing dwelling, construction of a new dwelling house and outhouse, replacement of the wastewater treatment system and the upgrade of site entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/117
11 Jul 2013Conditional
Demolition of an existing over ground slurry tank, the construction of a new over ground slurry tank with increased capacity and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/405
28 Jun 2013Incompleted application
Demolition of an existing over ground slurry tank, construction of a new over ground slurry tank with increased capacity and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/376
9 Sept 2009Conditional
Extension/modification to dwellinghouse granted under application 08/1641 (under construction) by building single storey one room extension to side of house
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/997
8 Sept 2008Conditional
Dwellinghouse and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1641
24 Apr 2008Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/747
3 Apr 2008Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/589
11 Sept 2007Refused
Dwelling house & associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2396
8 Aug 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2120
10 Jul 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse, domestic garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1862
20 Apr 2007Conditional
Construct extension with slatted slurry tank to existing cattle house, construct soiled water tank, concrete aprons, alterations to existing dry yard and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1054
9 Feb 2007Incompleted application
Construct extension with slatted slurry tank to existing cattle house, soiled water tank, concrete aprons and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/346
26 Jan 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse & associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/79
17 Dec 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/9313
19 Feb 2002Conditional
Construction of cattle house with slatted tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/675
27 Apr 2001Conditional
Construction of a loose cattle house with calving pens and slatted seepage tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/2374
24 Feb 1998Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 98/619
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 Aghafore.
Recorded monuments
- CO136-046 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture on steep N-facing slope. Marked as circular enclosure on both editions of OS 6-inch map (1842, 1902). Levelled c. 1982; no surface trace. Tradition of souterrain in enclosure (CO136-103---). 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
- CO136-102 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture on N-facing slope, commanding view to N, E and W. Local tradition of fort. Levelled; slight rise in field indicates location (28m N-S; 30m E-W). Arc of bank to N still visible (ext. H 0.4m). 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
- CO136-103 Souterrain
Description
According to local information, souterrain in ringfort (CO136-046---). 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
Architectural heritage
- House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c.1800, having two-bay two-storey block to side (east) with single-storey lean-to addition to rear (north). Currently vacant. Pitched slate roofs having rendered eaves courses, chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, timber casement windows to side block. Square-headed door openings having glazed timber and timber battened doors.
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 Aghafore, 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 Aghafore.
- 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 Aghafore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Aghafore · Achadh Phóire
- Area
- 1,164,507 m² (116.45 ha, 287.76 acres)
- Civil parish
- Abbeymahon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ibane and Barryroe
- Electoral division
- Abbeymahon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 743 people lived in 247 households in the Abbeymahon electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghmanister and Spital, Ardgehane, Ballincourcey, Barryshall, Grange Beg, Maulmacredmond
- Placenames
- Aghafore 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.