Aghakine
Aghakine is a townland in the civil parish of Columbkille, barony of Granard, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is Achadh Cadhain.
- Area
- 236.3 ha
- 584 acres
- Land parcels
- 77
- registered freehold, median 13,465 m² (1.35 ha, 3.33 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghakine, from 117 m² to 183,281 m² (18.33 ha, 45.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Aghakine 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
26 Mar 2026N/a
(a) to retain an existing domestic garage and (b) planning permission for the change the use of the existing domestic garage to a self contained granny annex, to include internal and external alterations, and an extension to the existing garage, connection to the existing on-site sewage treatment system and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2660093
26 Mar 2026Conditional
to construct an extension to an existing single storey dwelling house, internal and external alterations to existing dwelling house, new entrance, boundary walls, piers and fencing, proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, decommissioning of existing septic tank, and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2660094
3 Feb 2026Conditional
to construct a dormer bungalow type dwelling house, detached domestic garage, new entrance, bored well, boundary walls, piers and fencing, proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2660029
30 Jun 2025Conditional
(A) Renovations and alterations to an existing single storey derelict dwelling house, (B) Demolition of an existing outbuilding and the proposed construction of a single storey extension which includes an attached garage to the existing derelict dwelling house, (C) Installation of a suitable onsite sewerage treatment system with polishing filter in order to render the overall proposed development habitable, (D) entrance, access driveway, boundary fence/wall and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560137
5 Mar 2025N/a
the construction a dormer bungalow type dwelling house, detached domestic garage, new entrance, bored well, boundary walls, piers and fencing, proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560037
11 Apr 2023Conditional
the proposed construction of a single storey bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable wastewater treatment system with percolation area & ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2372
4 Feb 2021Conditional
the proposed extension to & internal renovations of existing single storey type dwelling house & ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2124
10 Jun 2020Conditional
proposed demolition of existing two storey type dwelling house with outhouses together with decommissioning of existing septic tank with soak pit servicing same & replacing the above with a two storey type dwelling house with single storey element, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable on site treatment system with percolation area whereby it is now proposed to increase the site boundaries so as to accommodate the construction of a vehicular entrance with driveway to service the proposed development in the event of a successful grant of planning permission and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 20123
20 Dec 2019Conditional
the proposed construction of a single storey bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, proprietary wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 19332
16 Oct 2019Refused
proposed construction of a two storey type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, proprietary wastewater treatment system with percolation area on the same site on which a similar type development, ie. a two storey type dwelling house, was granted full planning permission under Planning Reference Number PL10/15 & an Extension of Duration of Planning under Planning Reference Number PL15/1 and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 19263
13 Jun 2019Conditional
permission to 1) construct 4 bay cattle shed structure over existing slatted slurry storage tank 2) construct a cattle crush with overhead canopy and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 19160
11 Feb 2019Conditional
proposed construction of extension consisting of sun-room and pantry to our existing dwelling
Permission · Longford County Council, 1932
27 Apr 2018Conditional
the proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable on-site wastewater treatment system with percolation area and ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 1885
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Gowna 000992
Recorded monuments
- LF006-018 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a SE-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 40m) enclosed from ESE–S–NW by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4-6.2m; H 0.4-0.8m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 1.5m) and an intervening fosse (Wth 5.5-6m; D 1.25-1.3m). An outer bank (Wth 4-6.2m; H 1.6-1.7m) is evident except from ESE–SE–SSE where a scarp (H 1.5m) forms the enclosing element. From NNE–E-ESE, where the rath is bordered by a modern roadway, the external face of the outer bank has been removed. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 22 November 2011
- LF006-019 Ringfort - rath
Description
On the SSW-facing slope of a hillock. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. On inspection in 1976 (SMR file) no visible surface trace survived. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 14 November 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghakine.
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 Aghakine, 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aghakine.
- 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 Aghakine with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Aghakine · Achadh Cadhain
- Area
- 2,362,606 m² (236.26 ha, 583.81 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
- Aghnacliff, Carrickadorrish, Culray, Dunbeggan, Sonnagh
- Placenames
- Aghakine 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.