Aghatawny Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Oughteragh, barony of Carrigallen, Co. Leitrim; in Irish Achadh Tamhnaí Uachtarach
- Area
- 27.1 ha
- 67 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 35,056 m² (3.51 ha, 8.66 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghatawny Upper, from 2,698 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres) to 98,469 m² (9.85 ha, 24.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 3 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
26 May 2021Conditional
the erection of a dwelling and the installation of a wastewater treatment system along with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 21114
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 Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghatawny Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghatawny Upper.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Aghatawny Upper · Achadh Tamhnaí Uachtarach
- Area
- 271,273 m² (27.13 ha, 67.03 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
- Aghatawny Lower, Cannaboe, Cornacreegh, Killadough, Killaglasheen, Tully
- Placenames
- Aghatawny Upper 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.