Aghatawny Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Oughteragh, barony of Carrigallen, Co. Leitrim; in Irish Achadh Tamhnaí Íochtarach
- Area
- 40 ha
- 99 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 2,728 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres)
- Zoning
- C6
- Phase 2 Enterprise & Employment
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghatawny Lower, from 1,712 m² to 52,431 m² (5.24 ha, 12.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- C6Phase 2 Enterprise & Employment (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
30 Jul 2025Conditional
construct part single storey/part storey and a half dwelling, new entrance & driveway, waste water treatment system, percolation area and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560201
4 Aug 2020Conditional
erect dry bed sheep shed complete with effluent storage tank, concrete aprons and all ancillary site works
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 20122
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 Aghatawny Lower.
Recorded monuments
- LE025-076 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated in a low-lying position on the W bank of a N-S stream. It is only marked on the revised 1944 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 27m N-S; 25m E-W; int. diam. 23.27m E-W; 22.2m N-S) defined by an intermittently visible earthen bank (Wth 4.5-5.5m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 1m) or scarp and an external band of rushes (Wth 2m). The original entrance is not identified, although it could be at NE (Wth 4.3m) or SE (Wth 3.6m). It is truncated slightly by a N-S field bank at E, and it was at one time used as a golfing green. 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghatawny Lower.
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
- About 1 in 5 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.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Aghatawny Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Aghatawny Lower · Achadh Tamhnaí Íochtarach
- Area
- 399,652 m² (39.97 ha, 98.76 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
- Aghaleague, Aghatawny Upper, Ardmeenan, Cannaboe, Killadough
- Placenames
- Aghatawny Lower 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.