Aghnahily

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghnahily, from 337 m² to 275,337 m² (27.53 ha, 68.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Aghnahily 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.

• 13 Dec 2023Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area,new site entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2360533

• 14 Feb 2020N/a

  construct an extension to existing dwelling house, internal and external alterations, new domestic garage, ancillary site services and associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2077

• 23 Jul 2019Conditional

  revise planning permission 19/20, the construction of a slatted/cubicle shed to house cattle, a silage slab, replace an existing silage slab and ancillary works (ie. concrete yards) - all for agricultural purposes only in existing farmyard. The application includes a revised farmyard plan and a revised design of the slatted/cubicle shed

  Permission · Laois County Council, 19419

• 17 Jan 2019Conditional

  construct a slatted/cubicle shed to house cattle, a silage slab, replace an existing silage slab and ancillary site works (i.e. concrete yards) - all for agricultural purposes only in existing farmyard

  Permission · Laois County Council, 1920

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Rock Of Dunamase 000878

Recorded monuments

• LA013-062001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  A rath, within which a cist (LA013-062002-) was found, was situated 150 yds from the Rock of Dunamase (Comerford 1886, vol. 3, 288). Not marked on the 1841 or 1909 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. No visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA013-062002 Cist
  Description

  Discovered in 1845 in a 'Danish Rath' (LA013-062001-) was a cist containing an inhumed burial and two food vessels. Now in the National Museum (Bradley et. al. 1986, 22). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA013-063 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  National Monument No. 540. Ringfort in woodland on NW facing slope of rising ground with good views from W-N-NE, higher ground to S. Dunamase Castle (LA013-052----) 650m to NW. Depicted as a circular earthwork on the 1839 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. Present remains consist of a circular area (diam. c. 40m) defined by a well preserved flat-topped bank (top Wth 1.5-3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.7m-1.5m) and shallow external fosse (Wth 2m; ext. D 0.4m) best visible on the upslope side of the monument. The interior of the ringfort slopes from S to N following the natural slope of the land. The ringfort is covered in trees and briars making detailed examination of the monument impossible. Possible entrance gap (Wth 3m) at NE (SMR file 03/01/1973). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Updated by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 23 March 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aghnahily.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.

No address of the register names Aghnahily with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Aghnahily · Achadh na hAidhle

Area

828,327 m² (82.83 ha, 204.68 acres)

Civil parish

Dysartenos, and its townlands

Barony

Maryborough East

Electoral division

Kilcolmanbane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilcolmanbane electoral division: 627 people in 208 households; 96% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycarroll, Dysart, Grange Upper, Loughakeo, Park or Dunamase, Park Upper

Placenames

Aghnahily 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.