Aghakeeran

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghakeeran, from 281 m² to 139,626 m² (13.96 ha, 34.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 40 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Aghakeeran 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.

• 22 Jan 2025Conditional

  to decommission existing septic tank and install new sewerage treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2560011

• 5 Dec 2024Unconditional

  of 19/335 - to construct a dormer bungalow 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

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 2454

• 3 Sept 2024Refused

  of 19/335 - to construct a dormer bungalow 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

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 2447

• 23 Dec 2019Conditional

  to construct a dormer bungalow 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

  Permission · Longford County Council, 19335

• 16 Oct 2019Conditional

  of PL14/165 for proposed filling in of an existing dis-used Quarry together with also raising the level of the adjacent lands to the north of the existing dis-used quarry so that they are level with the adjacent public road and all ancillary works

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 19260

• 15 Mar 2018Conditional

  for the proposed construction of a Bungalow Type Dwelling House with Detached Garage, Entrance, Boundary Fence/Wall, Wastewater Treatment System with Percolation Area and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1853

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 Aghakeeran.

Recorded monuments

• LF006-054 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On an E-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 31.5m) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 3-3.8m; H 0.75-0.95m) from SE–S–N and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 0.7-1.4m). A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a wide, shallow, external fosse, which is not visible at ground level. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 22 November 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Aghakeeran, 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 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 Aghakeeran.

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

Name

Aghakeeran · Achadh Caorthainn

Area

1,674,785 m² (167.48 ha, 413.85 acres)

Civil parish

Columbkille, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Sonnagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

266 people lived in 114 households in the Sonnagh electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghacordrinan, Aghakilmore, Culray, Molly, Sonnagh

Placenames

Aghakeeran 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.