Aharney

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aharney, from 106 m² to 303,308 m² (30.33 ha, 74.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Aharney 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.

• 6 Jun 2024Conditional

  construct a single storey dwelling, a percolation area and associated site works and retention permission for an existing mobile home, a site entrance and septic tank

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460319

• 5 Apr 2024N/a

  construct single storey dwelling, a percolation area and associated site works and retention permission for a site entrance and septic tank

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2460177

• 18 Jul 2019Conditional

  erect a two storey dwelling, a septic tank & percolation area, a site entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19411

• 31 Jul 2017Conditional

  (a) construct a one and a half storey dwelling and detached garage, and (b) change of use from existing dwelling to a storage shed, including decommissioning of existing septic tank. New septic tank/percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17407

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Aharney.

Recorded monuments

• LA035-046 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Only S portion of bank remaining. Described as a circular area (diam. c. 40m) defined by a bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H c. 0.5m-0.8m) with a fosse (Wth c. 4m, ext. D c. 0.6m) at E. Entrance at E (OPW file). Known as 'Rathpatrick' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 309). 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

• LA035-047 Church
  Description

  Dedicated to St Bridget. Only the featureless W gable survives bu Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 308) mentions that half of E gable and portions of S wall of the church (L c. 12.75m; Wth c. 5.1m) were to be seen c. 1900. No early grave-markers visible. Described by Carrigan as 'Of the Church dedicated to St. Bridget (Feb. 1st), only the west gable, a fragment or two of the south side-wall, and one half the east gable remain. It was 42 and a half feet long, internally and 16 ft. 9 in. wide, the walls being from 2 and a half to 3 ft. thick, and built of small rough stones and grouting. One side of a tall lancet window remains standing in the east gable; the other side is fallen. At present there is no appearance of any division of the church into nave and chancel' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 308). 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

• LA035-047001 Graveyard
  Description

  Dedicated to St. Bridget (Carrigian 1905, vol. 2, 308-09). No visible early grave markers. Described by Carrigan as 'In the graveyard, a small rough headstone has : "I.H.S. William Dullany 1721". This is the oldest of many inscriptions here' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 308). D-shaped graveyard (int. dims. 40m N-S; 42m E-W) with church in N quadrant and road forming S boundary of graveyard. It contains 18th and 19th century memorials. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA035-048 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Dedicated to St. Bridget. Until the nineteenth century, pilgrims came here on the 1st February (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 309). Well indicated by wet patch in the ground. Described by Carrigan as "St. Bridgets well" was about 200 yards south-east of the church, in the field- formerly townland-known as Booliaduff. It was a holy well, and the scene of many pilgrimages and patterns, down to the beginning of the 19th century. Though destroyed several years ago, its site is still well known' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 309). 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

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Aharney, 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 high, 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 Aharney.

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.

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

Name

Aharney · Áth Charna

Area

2,468,134 m² (246.81 ha, 609.89 acres)

Civil parish

Aharney, and its townlands

Barony

Clarmallagh

Electoral division

Aghmacart, the unit of the census

Census 2022

377 people lived in 119 households in the Aghmacart electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Archerstown, Ballykealy, Lisdowney (Co. Kilkenny), Seskin Little (Co. Kilkenny), Seskin North (Co. Kilkenny), Tinnaslatty (Co. Kilkenny), Toberboe or Killenny More

Placenames

Aharney 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.