Aghagah
Aghagah is a townland in the civil parish of Killoe, barony of Granard, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is Achadh Ga.
- Area
- 116.5 ha
- 288 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 7,628 m² (0.76 ha, 1.89 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghagah, from 156 m² to 267,001 m² (26.7 ha, 65.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Aghagah 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
14 Feb 2024Conditional
to construct a two storey type dwelling house and detached domestic garage, new entrance, boundary walls, piers and fencing, proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Revised plans have been furnished in respect of this proposed development
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2460027
11 Mar 2021Conditional
of existing sun lounge and detached domestic garage that services existing dwelling house and all ancillary works
Retention · Longford County Council, 2165
9 Apr 2020Conditional
proposed renovations and extension to an existing single storey dwelling house together with the proposed conversion of an outbuilding into habitable accommodation that will become attached to the existing dwelling as part of this proposed development and all ancillary works (Covid 19b)
Permission · Longford County Council, 2086
17 Aug 2018Conditional
the proposed construction of a two storey type dwelling house with attached sun lounge, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, proprietary wastewater treatment unit with percolation area and ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 18177
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Aghagah.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghagah.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghagah.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Aghagah, 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 Aghagah.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Aghagah with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Aghagah · Achadh Ga
- Area
- 1,164,658 m² (116.47 ha, 287.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Granard
- Electoral division
- Moyne, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 307 people lived in 120 households in the Moyne electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyduffy, Drumhalry, Drumury, Fihoragh, Moyne
- Placenames
- Aghagah 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.