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Acragar

Acragar is a townland in the civil parish of Ardea, barony of Portnahinch, Co. Laois. Its name in Irish is An tAcra Gearr.

Area
261.8 ha
647 acres
Land parcels
209
registered freehold, median 2,044 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres)
Zoning
R2
Residential 1 - Existing Residential
Planning
37
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

AcragarBallintaggartEyneKilmainhamKilleen or KilleenlynaghClonsogheySronaghBrittasDerrycloneyBallycullenbegOmoresforestCloncosneyDerrygileDerrydavy
1,000 m
252 parcels are drawn. Click one to see it.© Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

209 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Acragar, from 27 m² to 263,692 m² (26.37 ha, 65.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 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

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

Planning applications

Sites that touch the townland, newest first

The 25 most recent of 37 applications.

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 Acragar.

Recorded monuments

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Acragar.

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 Acragar, 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, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.
Terrain model
LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2143 (ZIP).
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

The townland

Name
Acragar · An tAcra Gearr
Area
2,617,804 m² (261.78 ha, 646.87 acres)
Civil parish
Ardea, and its townlands
Barony
Portnahinch
Electoral division
Mountmellick Rural, the unit of the census
Census 2022
1,090 people lived in 383 households in the Mountmellick Rural electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Ballycullenbeg, Brittas, Cloncosney, Derrydavy, Derrygile, Kyletalesha, Sronagh, Strahard
Placenames
Acragar 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.