# Aghatawny Lower, Co. Leitrim: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Oughteragh, barony of Carrigallen, Co. Leitrim; in Irish Achadh Tamhnaí Íochtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 399,652 m² (39.97 ha, 98.76 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,728 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): C6 Phase 2 Enterprise & Employment, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Oughteragh, https://everytownland.com/leitrim/parish/oughteragh.md - Barony: Carrigallen - Electoral division: Ballinamore, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Leitrim, https://everytownland.com/leitrim.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28900 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 110042 - Centre: latitude 54.043453, longitude -7.788638 (WGS 84) ## 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); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5388148: 52,431 m² (5.24 ha, 12.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5388148.md - Parcel 603684: 5,248 m² (0.52 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/603684.md - Parcel 599185: 3,088 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/599185.md - Parcel 5117149: 2,368 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5117149.md - Parcel 5787848: 2,039 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5787848.md - Parcel 5697770: 1,712 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5697770.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - C6 Phase 2 Enterprise & Employment (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses): Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.leitrim.ie/council/services/planning-building/forward-planning-development/leitrim-county-development-plan/leitrim-county-development-plan-2023-2029/leitrim-county-development-plan.html ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 30 Jul 2025, Leitrim County Council 2560201: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct part single storey/part storey and a half dwelling, new entrance & driveway, waste water treatment system, percolation area and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LeitrimCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560201/0 - 4 Aug 2020, Leitrim County Council 20122: Conditional. Permission. erect dry bed sheep shed complete with effluent storage tank, concrete aprons and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LeitrimCC/AppFileRefDetails/20122/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Aghatawny Lower. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LE025-076: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLE025-076----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghatawny Lower. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1712.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/aghatawny-lower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/aghatawny-lower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/aghatawny-lower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/leitrim.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghaleague: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/aghaleague-110024.md - Aghatawny Upper: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/aghatawny-upper.md - Ardmeenan: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/ardmeenan.md - Cannaboe: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/cannaboe.md - Killadough: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/killadough.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/leitrim/aghatawny-lower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/leitrim/aghatawny-lower