Aghanure
Aghanure is a townland in the civil parish of Kilberry, barony of Narragh and Reban West, Co. Kildare. Its name in Irish is Achadh an Iúir.
- Area
- 104 ha
- 257 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 50,855 m² (5.09 ha, 12.57 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghanure, from 2,446 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres) to 628,950 m² (62.89 ha, 155.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Aghanure 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
16 Oct 2024Conditional
for a 122sqm extension to the rear of our property to include 2 additional bedrooms with ancillary areas and an annex home office, together with all associated and ancillary site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2461062
15 Oct 2024N/a
for a 122sqm extension to the rear of our property to include 2 additional bedrooms with ancillary areas and an annex home office, together with all associated and ancillary site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 2461055
3 Sept 2024Conditional
for 2 story domestic garage and storage area as constructed
Retention · Kildare County Council, 2460865
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 Aghanure.
Recorded monuments
- KD035-011 Enclosure
Description
In level tillage. Visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP BDH 69 (1970) and BOC 61 (1973)) as the cropmark of a fosse defining a fairly large angular area (est. c 70m E-W; c. 40m N-S), with straight N, E and S sides, but the W-end carrying W, beyond the rectangular portion of the site and ending in a point. Internally, to E of centre, the cropmark of a fosse can also be seen defining a small subrectangular area, possibly a dwelling? The cropmark of another levelled enclosure (KD035-033----), nearby to the NW, is also visible on there aerial photographs. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 28 November 2013
- KD035-033 Enclosure
Description
In level tillage. Visible on a 1970 aerial photograph (CUCAP BDH 69) as the faint cropmark of a narrow fosse defining a circular area (est. diam. c. 40m). A second larger levelled enclosure (KD035-011----) lies nearby to the SE. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 28 November
- KD035-102 Enclosure
Description
In tillage. Visible on Bing Maps Aerial view (pers. comm. P. Reid) as the cropmark of a large oval area (est. L c. 70m; est. Wth c. 55m) defined by a back-filled fosse. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 12 November 2014
- KD035-103 Enclosure
Description
In tillage. Visible on Bing Maps Aerial view (pers. comm. P. Reid) as an oval or plectrum-shaped area (est. L c. 45m; est. Wth c. 30m) defined by the cropmark a back-filled fosse. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 12 November 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghanure.
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 Aghanure, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Aghanure with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Aghanure · Achadh an Iúir
- Area
- 1,040,346 m² (104.03 ha, 257.08 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilberry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Narragh and Reban West
- Electoral division
- Burtown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 421 people lived in 157 households in the Burtown electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardscull, Blackwood, Russellstown, Smallford, Tullygorey
- Placenames
- Aghanure 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.