Aghavas

68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghavas, from 618 m² to 244,406 m² (24.44 ha, 60.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Aghavas 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.

• 16 Jul 2025Conditional

  Proposed construction of a single-storey extension to the side of an existing detached two storey dwelling house all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560185

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 Aghavas.

Recorded monuments

• LE033-016 Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
  Description

  Situated on a gentle SW-facing slope. An overgrown chamber (dims 1.65m N-S; 0.9m E-W) formed by two portal-stones (max. H 1.45m) at N with one visible sidestone and a backstone, is set into the N end of a rectangular cairn (dims c. 27.5m N-S; c. 7.5m E-W; max. H c. 1m) whose W side has been truncated at the N end by a NE-SW field bank. A large slab (dims c. 1.2m x 1.05m; max. T 0.4m) near the chamber may be part of the original roofstone. (Cooney 1985) 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 Amended: 9 December 2019

• LE033-057 Crannog
  Description

  Within a dried-up lake that is represented on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subcircular lake (dims c. 250m E-W; c. 200m N-S), but the lake is likely to have been much bigger originally (dims c. 800m E-W; c. 300m N-S). Local information suggested that there might have been a crannog towards the N edge of the lake where a clump of trees grew. No evidence to confirm this is visible at ground level. It remains undisturbed within a coniferous forest. The habitation site (LE033-064----) is c. 80m to the SE. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 9 September 2015

• LE033-064 Habitation site
  Description

  Located in the now reclaimed Aghavas Lough, which is represented as a subrectangular lake (dims c. 250m E-W; c. 200m N-S) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map but which could have been much larger (dims c. 800m E-W; c. 300m N-S). Forestry works in 1999 revealed artifacts including a quernstone (Buckley 1999), which was reported by Brendan Lynch. A record (99E0555) of features revealed by the drains was made (O’Sullivan and Lyttleton 1999). Two layers of lake marl overlay an oval charcoal-rich layer with ash lenses (dims 17m N-S; 11m E-W; max. T 0.5m), which in turn overlay a layer of peat. Some vertical posts and stones from a paved area were recorded, but no large structural base of trees and stones. Artifacts recovered include crannog ware, suggesting a late medieval date for a lakeside habitation site (13th to 16th century AD). It was subsequently planted with trees. (Buckley and O’Sullivan 2000) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 September, 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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 Aghavas, about 1 in 20 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 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 Aghavas.

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 Aghavas with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Aghavas · Achadh an Mheasa

Area

1,391,460 m² (139.15 ha, 343.84 acres)

Civil parish

Cloone, and its townlands

Barony

Carrigallen

Electoral division

Aghavas, the unit of the census

Census 2022

321 people lived in 127 households in the Aghavas electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bundarragh, Carrickavoher, Corduff North, Corraneary, Diffin, Drumerkeane, Drumgunny, Gradoge

Placenames

Aghavas 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.