Aghamore Upper

85 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghamore Upper, from 24 m² to 116,005 m² (11.6 ha, 28.67 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Aghamore Upper 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.

• 4 Oct 2024Conditional

  the proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached domestic garage, site entrance, boundary fence, wastewater treatment system, percolation area & all ancillary site work

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2460217

• 10 May 2023Conditional

  extraction of rock over an area of c.14.2ha comprising a lateral southerly extension to, and deepening of the existing quarry to a final depth of c.114mAOD, the construction of internal haul roads, earthen screening bunds and storage landforms, the demolition of farm outbuildings (c.126sqm), the restoration of the site to biodiversity after uses primarily in the form of a waterbody, and all ancillary works within an overall application area of c.36.8ha

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2360023

• 17 Aug 2022Conditional

  the installation of an aggregate storage shed (area 902 m²) and partial realignment of existing private laneway, within an application area of c. 0.2ha, at the existing quarry landholding

  Permission · Longford County Council, 22195

• 8 Apr 2022Conditional

  the installation and operation of a readymix concrete batching plant and all ancillary works within an application area of c. 0.25 hectares

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2279

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 Aghamore Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghamore Upper.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Aghamore Upper, 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 Aghamore Upper.

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

Name

Aghamore Upper · Achadh Mór Uachtarach

Area

1,871,267 m² (187.13 ha, 462.4 acres)

Civil parish

Columbkille, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Gelshagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

366 people lived in 125 households in the Gelshagh electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghacordrinan, Aghagreagh, Carrickadorrish, Derreenavoggy, Fostragh, Glenmore

Placenames

Aghamore Upper 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.