# Aghantrah, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballymacormick, barony of Moydow, Co. Longford; in Irish Achadh an tSratha. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 722,420 m² (72.24 ha, 178.51 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,717 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballymacormick, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/ballymacormick.md - Barony: Moydow - Electoral division: Moydow, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 802 people lived in 268 households in the Moydow electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33320 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130032 - Centre: latitude 53.684616, longitude -7.850247 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghantrah, from 10 m² to 272,354 m² (27.24 ha, 67.3 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 74160: 272,354 m² (27.24 ha, 67.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/74160.md - Parcel 4719250: 140,539 m² (14.05 ha, 34.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4719250.md - Parcel 78064: 125,115 m² (12.51 ha, 30.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/78064.md - Parcel 3114501: 66,823 m² (6.68 ha, 16.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3114501.md - Parcel 3114495: 37,181 m² (3.72 ha, 9.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3114495.md - Parcel 82137: 4,457 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/82137.md - Parcel 6100642: 3,697 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6100642.md - Parcel 63193: 3,303 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/63193.md - Parcel 75554: 2,717 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/75554.md - Parcel 58617: 2,009 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/58617.md - Parcel 81882: 1,831 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/81882.md - Parcel 69524: 1,758 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/69524.md - Parcel 75344: 741 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/75344.md - Parcel 54094: 288 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/54094.md - Parcel 6100809: 223 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6100809.md - Parcel 6100797: 133 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6100797.md - Parcel 54532: 10 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/54532.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Aghantrah in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 1 Sept 2021, Longford County Council 21255: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a 107 Sq.M 2 storey, 3 bedroomed house, installation of new waste water treatment system, use of existing vehicular access and extension of same and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/21255/0 - 14 Jul 2020, Longford County Council 20152: Conditional. Permission. to dispose of materials which will be inert materials, soils & subsoil on the lands to which this application relates so as to raise the existing ground level by a maximum of two meters, creation of entrance with access road all associated ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/20152/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal, site code 002103 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LF018-008: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF018-008----. In wet, low-lying pasture immediately S of a NW-flowing stream. Not indicated on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a largely levelled, raised circular area (diam. c. 20m), which was delimited by a fosse. The original entrance was not recognisable. Further levelling has occurred and the monument is no longer visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Aghantrah Bridge, bridge, 1820–1830, Regional interest, registry number 13401804, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF®no=13401804. Single-arch humpbacked canal accommodation bridge carrying road over Royal Canal (Longford Branch), built c. 1829. Round/elliptical-headed arch with dressed ashlar limestone voussoirs and dressed limestone masonry to barrel. Dressed limestone spandrel walls with cut limestone string course at road/deck level. Dressed ashlar limestone parapets with curving ends terminated in dressed ashlar limestone piers (on square-plan). Dressed ashlar limestone coping over parapet walls. Rubble stone construction to inner faces of parapet walls. Towpath to east bank of canal. Dressed limestone retaining walls to canal banks (north and south). Located to the east of Killashee. - Bridge, aqueduct, 1825–1835, Regional interest, registry number 13401820, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF®no=13401820. Single-arch canal bridge/aqueduct carrying Royal Canal (Longford Branch) over tributary of the Fallan River, built c. 1829. Canal now dry and in use as a footpath/road for farm access. Round/elliptical-headed arch with dressed ashlar limestone voussoirs and dressed limestone masonry to barrel. Squared and coursed limestone rubble spandrel walls. Spandrel walls curves outward to the base in concave curve. Projecting rock-faced limestone walls with dressed limestone coping to abutments, forming ledges, to either side of arch (running along arch). Modern timber fences to parapets. Located to the southwest of Longford Town. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Aghantrah, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aghantrah. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/longford/aghantrah.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/aghantrah.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/aghantrah.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Aghantrah with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford: https://everytownland.com/longford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyclare: https://everytownland.com/longford/ballyclare-130105.md - Carrowmanagh: https://everytownland.com/longford/carrowmanagh.md - Cloonsheerin: https://everytownland.com/longford/cloonsheerin.md - Gorteenboy: https://everytownland.com/longford/gorteenboy.md - Gowlan: https://everytownland.com/longford/gowlan.md - Newtown: https://everytownland.com/longford/newtown-130779.md - Sharvoge: https://everytownland.com/longford/sharvoge.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/longford/aghantrah - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/aghantrah