Aghlacon

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghlacon, from 169 m² to 102,595 m² (10.26 ha, 25.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Aghlacon 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 Aghlacon 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 Aghlacon.

Recorded monuments

• LE012-005001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the crest of a small hillock with a S-N section of the Scardan River c. 100m to the W. This is a grass and scrub-covered circular area (diam. 30m E-W; 28m N-S) defined by a slight bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m) NW-N, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.4m) down to the interior N-E, and a (H 1-1.3m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Souterrain (LE012-005002-) is in the interior. 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

• LE012-005002 Souterrain
  Description

  A curved section of passage (L 4.2m; Wth 1m; H 1.2m), partly open, is constructed of drystone walling with a lintelled roof. It is inside the perimeter of rath (LE012-005001--) at SW. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately high, 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 Aghlacon.

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

Name

Aghlacon · Achadh Locha Chon

Area

561,139 m² (56.11 ha, 138.66 acres)

Civil parish

Cloonclare, and its townlands

Barony

Drumahaire

Electoral division

Glenboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glenboy electoral division: 237 people in 90 households; 88% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Glenboy, Moneenshinnagh, Munakill, Munnagashel

Placenames

Aghlacon 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.