Aghintober

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghintober, from 3,151 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres) to 66,344 m² (6.63 ha, 16.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Aghintober 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Aghintober in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Aghintober.

Recorded monuments

• LE031-035 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in a low-lying position amongst drumlins. This is a slightly raised and grass-covered D-shaped earthen platform (dims 24m N-S; 22m E-W; H 0.45m) with no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. It is slightly truncated by a N-S field bank at W. 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: 15 October 2019

• LE031-037 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gentle E-facing slope. This is a grass-covered circular earthen platform (diam. 29m) defined by a scarp (H 0.1m at NE to 0.45m at S) and a wet fosse (Wth 2.5-4m; ext. D 0.35m) S-W-NE, and a slight scarp (H 0.1m) elsewhere. The original entrance is not identified. 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: 15 October 2019

• LE031-127001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Located towards the bottom of an E-facing slope. A well dedicated to St Bridget is an unlined rectangular hollow (dims 1.1m N-S; 0.85m E-W; D 0.7m) with a cross-slab (H 0.66m plus; Wth 0.28m; T 6cm) retaining the W side (Ward 1990, 77). The cross-slab has a deeply-incised ringed cross with a double-ring (diam. of head 0.28m). The well is still visited on the saint’s feastday (1st Feb.). It has a sandy bottom with some water and there are two whitethorns there which are known to have been festooned with rags in the past but are bare now. The well is within a small beech plantation that is c. 10 years old. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 September, 2015

• LE031-127002 Cross-slab
  Description

  A cross-slab (H 0.66m plus; Wth 0.28m; T 6cm) is retaining the W side of St Bridget’s Well (LE031-127001-) (Ward 1990, 77). It has a deeply-incised ringed cross with a double-ring (diam. 0.28m) on one face. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 September, 2015

• LE031-127003 Ritual site - holy tree/bush
  Description

  Two whitethorn trees at St Bridget’s Well (LE031-127001-) are known to have been festooned with rags around the time of the saint’s feastday (1st Feb.) in the past but they are now bare within a small beech plantation. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 September, 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Aghintober · Achadh an Tobair

Area

147,946 m² (14.79 ha, 36.56 acres)

Civil parish

Annaduff, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Drumsna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumsna electoral division: 740 people in 284 households; 87% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolcreeve, Curraghmartin, Lismannagh, Lismoyle

Placenames

Aghintober 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.