Aghadark

87 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghadark, from 9 m² to 114,727 m² (11.47 ha, 28.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 42 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Social & Community (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 21 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C5Tourism Related Development (Tourism and related)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space & Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 14 May 2026Conditional

  1) Change of use of former convent building, chapel and outbuildings to a) aparthotel use providing 12 no. rooms on first and second floor and b) cafe, restaurant and reception use on the ground floor. 2) To construct new lift and single-storey kitchen extension to the rear of the building. 3) To construct glass porch and covered outdoor seating area adjacent to proposed café to South elevation. 4) To construct link corridor connecting the convent building to existing outbuildings. 5) Provision of on-site car parking, connection to all public services and all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2660123

• 14 Nov 2024Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE FROM SCHOOL HOUSE INTO 4.NO. APARTMENTS AND ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY WORKS.

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2460235

• 11 Apr 2023Conditional

  as built lower level garage/boiler house to bungalow and ancillary out buildings and associated works

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2345

• 16 Aug 2022Conditional

  open storage area, with permission for change of use of the area to entrance area, 4 shower rooms with toilets, store, on shore boat foul waste disposal toilet, bin store and with permission to complete wall construction, roof, and all associated works, with connection to existing town sewer and services and all ancillary works

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 22163

• 5 Jul 2022N/a

  retain open storage area, with permission for change of use of the area to entrance, 4 shower rooms with toilets store, onshore boat foul waste disposal toilet bin store, with connection to existing town sewer and services and all associated site works

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 22128

• 27 Sept 2019Conditional

  a change of use of Saint Patrick's Boys National School to a Childcare Facility. It is intended to make internal alterations to the building and carry out all necessary ancillary works including car park

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 19198

• 10 May 2019Conditional

  change of use of Scoil Naisiunta Bhrid Naofa to St. Brigid's Parish Centre and office and associated works including existing site boundaries

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 19103

• 31 Oct 2018Conditional

  existing mobile home for the duration of works granted permission under planning reference P18/123

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 18229

• 28 Jun 2018Conditional

  demolish existing dwelling house, construct new replacement dwelling house and domestic garage, retain the use of the agricultural entrance as a vehicular entrance to serve the dwelling, connection to services and associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 18123

• 23 Apr 2018Conditional

  (a) provide a pitched roof over a section of the Parochial house, which at the present is covered by a flat roof, and erect an extension to rear of the house; (b) retain revised vehicular entrance including the construction of stone wing walls and pier, and carry out all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 1868

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 Aghadark.

Recorded monuments

• LE025-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the N-facing slope of a hill. This is a circular overgrown area (diam. 31m crest to crest; int. diam. 28m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (at S: Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.9m) and external fosse (at S: Wth of top 6m; Wth of base 3m; D 0.4m) E-S-W (upslope), with a scarp (max. H 1.5m) elsewhere. The original entrance was not identified, and the interior was bisected by an E-W laneway which has now been removed. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE025-032 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on top of a S-N drumlin ridge or spur. It is depicted as a circular or subtriangular embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 40m E-W; c. 30m N-S) on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map and it is visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (OSAP: 4/1008-9). This is a grass-covered subcircular area (dims 36m E-W; 31m N-S) defined by slight traces of an earthen bank (Wth 5m; H 0.3m) N-NE, reduced to a scarp (max. H 0.8m) NE-SW, and slight traces of a fosse (Wth 8m; max. D 0.5m) SW-NW. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Convent of Mercy, graveyard/cemetery, 1885–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Convent of Mercy cemetery, established c.1890. Concrete path divides cemetery into quarters. Crucifixion statue to northern end of cemetery. Cast-iron grave markers. Site is enclosed by cast-iron railings.

• 6th Lock, lock, 1845–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Lock No. 6 of the Ballinamore and Ballyconnell Canal, built in 1849 and restored c.1993. Comprises two lock gates, roughly-dressed limestone walls brought to courses and cast-iron mooring posts.

• Convent of Mercy, convent/nunnery, 1915–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay three-storey convent, built in 1916, with advanced central entrance bay. Southern bay is an extension. Single-storey extension to rear. Pitched slate roof, hipped to southern bay. Terracotta ridge cresting and rendered chimneystacks. Cross finial and statue in recess to gable of entrance bay. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls. Round-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows and stone sills. Canted-bay window to southern bay. Replacement door with original fanlight and sidelights. Double height chapel attached to north end with half-octagonal end walls and hipped slate roof, channelled rendered walls and stained glass windows. Convent set back from road. Outbuildings to north.

• Bridge, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch canal bridge, built c.1845. Rock-faced voussoirs to segmental arch-ring, coursed stone walls with buttresses and ashlar parapets.

• Curranmount House, house, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c.1890, with two-storey return and single-storey extension. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, terracotta ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with stucco quoins. Timber sash windows with stone sills and external shutters to front and replacement uPVC to rear. Canted bay windows to side elevations. Glazed porch with timber door and terrazzo threshold. Cast-iron waterpump. Stone, rendered and corrugated-iron outbuildings to rear of site.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1712 (ZIP).

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.

• Aghadark, Ballinamore5 sales

Name

Aghadark · Achadh Dearc

Area

552,604 m² (55.26 ha, 136.55 acres)

Civil parish

Oughteragh, and its townlands

Barony

Carrigallen

Electoral division

Ballinamore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballinamore electoral division: 1,317 people in 516 households; 66% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardrum, Kiltymoodan, Stradermot, Tullyoscar

Placenames

Aghadark 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.