Aghafad

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghafad, from 46 m² to 49,225 m² (4.92 ha, 12.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R2Residential (Existing residential)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 23 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Industrial/Commercial/Warehousing (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S6Social/Community/Education/Public Utility (Other community services/facilities uses)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Aghafad 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 Aghafad.

Recorded monuments

• LF013-034 Church
  Description

  Within the SE quadrant of an ecclesiastical enclosure (LF013-034001-). A report in 1975 (SMR file) noted that a series of low banks of earth and stone, rectangular in plan and orientated on an E-W axis, possibly marked the site of a church. A smaller square structure, defined by an earthen bank, extended to the N from it. A low earthen bank running to the E off the NE corner of this structure was possibly a subdividing bank associated with the ecclesiastical enclosure. None of these features are visible at ground level. A cross-inscribed pillar (LF013-034003-) is associated. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 June 2013 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 3/1979).

• LF013-034001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope in pasture. Described in 1975 (SMR file) as a slightly raised oval platform (c. 64m E-W; c. 52m N-S) defined by a low bank of earth and stone. The original entrance may have been at NE. A possible church (LF013-034----) was evident in the SE quadrant of the interior as well as a cross-inscribed pillar (LF013-034003-) and an internal subdividing bank. The enclosure is defined by a scarp (H 0.25-0.8m). No visible surface trace of the internal bank survives. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 June 2013 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 3/1979).

• LF013-034002 Cross-inscribed pillar
  Description

  Formerly located within the SE quadrant of an ecclesiastical enclosure (LF013-034001-), this cross-inscribed pillar is now in St Mel’s College (see LF013-034003-) in Longford town (LF013-026----). It comprises a large, rectangular, limestone pillar (H 2.45m; Wth 0.35m; T 0.25m) on which a simple Latin cross is carved in relief. In the angles of the arms of the cross, the stone has been cut away to give a ringed effect. The stem is decorated with a transverse groove. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 6 June 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Aghafad, about 1 in 10 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 low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1717 (ZIP).

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 Aghafad with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Aghafad · Achadh Fada

Area

92,379 m² (9.24 ha, 22.83 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacormick, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Longford Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

5,685 people lived in 1,964 households in the Longford Rural electoral division. 51% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Farranyoogan, Garvagh, Glebe, Mullaghavorneen

Placenames

Aghafad 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.