Aghavoghil

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghavoghil, from 326 m² to 340,018 m² (34 ha, 84.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Aghavoghil 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.

• 1 Jul 2026N/a

  Planning permission to (a) construct 2 No. four bay slatted sheds, including underground storage tanks in each and a feed passage in each (b) a fixed sheep handling unit with dip tank between proposed slatted sheds on site together with all ancillary site works and services. The planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS),

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2660166

• 8 May 2026N/a

  (a) construct 2 No. four bay slatted sheds, including underground storage tanks in each and a feed passage in each (b) a fixed sheep handling unit with dip tank between proposed slatted sheds on site together with all ancillary site works and services. The planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS).

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2660119

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Arroo Mountain SAC 001403
• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Melvin SAC 000428
• Natural Heritage Area: Aghavoghil Bog NHA 002430
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Melvin 000428
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Arroo Mountain 001403

Recorded monuments

• LE002-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Within a coniferous forest on a steep N-facing slope towards the bottom of the N-facing slope of the Dartry mountains, with a SE-NW section of a stream c. 45m to the E. Depicted as an embanked enclosure and described as a fort on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a hachured feature (diam. c. 35m) on the 1907 ed. An earthen bank (Wth 3m; ext. H 0.5m) with no visible fosse defines the E side of an enclosure, the rest of which has been quarried away. 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

• LE004-015 Cairn - boundary cairn
  Description

  Marked only on the 1910 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in italic lettering as a ‘Pile of Stones’. It is located at a point where the unbuilt townland boundary between Erriff to the W and Aghavoghil to the E changes direction from S-N to a NNW direction proceeding N. It is situated on a local rise of a broad plateau. This is a conical cairn (diam. c. 1.5m; H 2m) with flush faces. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 January, 2016

• LE004-016001 Cairn - boundary cairn
  Description

  Marked only on the 1910 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in italic lettering as a ‘Pile of Stones’. It is located on a SE-facing slope of a broad plateau at a point where the lines of three unbuilt townland boundaries meet, with Aghavoghil to the N, Cullionboy to the SE and Gubinea to the SW. Lough Aganny is c. 200m to the WNW. This is a conical cairn with flush faces. The boulder marker (LE004-016002-) is c. 40m to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 January, 2016

• LE004-017001 Cairn - boundary cairn
  Description

  Marked only on the 1910 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in italic lettering as a ‘Pile of Stones’. It is located on rock outcrop of a N-S ridge on the unbuilt townland boundary between Aghavoghil to the W and Conwal South to the E. This is a pile of loose stones (diam. c. 2m; H 0.5m). The boundary cairn (LE004-017002-) is c. 50m to the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 January, 2016

• LE004-017002 Cairn - boundary cairn
  Description

  Marked only on the 1910 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in italic lettering as a ‘Pile of Stones’. It is located on rock outcrop of a N-S ridge on the unbuilt townland boundary between Aghavoghil to the W and Conwal South to the E. This is a pile of loose stones (diam. c. 2m; H 1m). Boundary cairn (LE004-017001-) is c. 50m to N and the line is continued by cairn (LE004-020----) c. 130m to the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 4 January, 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

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

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aghavoghil.

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.

No address of the register names Aghavoghil with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Aghavoghil · Achadh Bhuachaill

Area

7,239,725 m² (723.97 ha, 1,788.98 acres)

Civil parish

Rossinver, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Aghavoghil, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Aghaderrard East, Arroo, Buckode, Conwal North, Conwal South, Cullionboy, Erriff, Gubinea, Leckanarainey, Sracleighreen, Sracummer

Placenames

Aghavoghil 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.