Aghareagh

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghareagh, from 112 m² to 280,001 m² (28 ha, 69.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Aghareagh 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Aghareagh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Aghareagh.

Recorded monuments

• LF013-022 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a NNE-facing slope in low-lying pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 67.9m) enclosed by a wide, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 7.1m; H 0.3-0.9m) with a wide, shallow external fosse (Wth 5.9m; D 0.75m). From W-N-NNE the circuit and the morphology of the bank and fosse have been modified due to their incorporation into a modern field boundary. Elsewhere the outer face of the bank has been steepened. From NNE-E-SE the fosse survives as a very wide, very shallow, extremely waterlogged depression (Wth 9.2m; D 0.1m). From SE-S-SSW it has been infilled but its outline is still identifiable. A wide break (Wth 4.4m) in the bank at S with an accompanying causeway probably marks the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF013-150 Fulacht fia
  Description

  On a floodplain. Identified during trial trenching in 2008 as three discrete deposits of burnt material (Hull 2009, 8; 2011, 238-9). Excavation in 2009 revealed that the deposits were part of a fulacht fia composed of spreads of angular, heat-affected stone and charcoal in a matrix of black, silty clay. The N portion of the mound was not excavated as it lay beyond the limits of the excavation (Stephens 2009d; Stephens 2011, 140-141; pers. comm. M. Stephens). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 17 January 2013

Architectural heritage

• Aghareagh House, country house, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over half-basement house, built c. 1810. Hipped natural slate roof with a central pair of rendered chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast lime rendered walls over rubble stone construction (partially exposed to rear (west). Square-headed windows openings having tooled limestone sills, with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to ground and first floors, and three-over-six pane to half-basement. Central round-headed door opening to main elevation (east) having rendered surround, freestanding Ionic doorcase, timber panelled door, and a leaded spider’s web fanlight over. Doorway reached by flight of cut stone steps flanked to either side (north and south) by wrought-iron railings. Square-headed door opening with half-glazed timber battened door under flight of steps to doorway at basement level. Cut limestone coping to parapet wall over basement level. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds with complex of outbuildings (13401325) and walled garden to rear (west). Walled yard to the rear with rubble stone boundary walls, entrance to yard from the south through pair of rendered gate piers having wrought- and cast-iron double gates. Main entrance gate to the house to the southeast of house. Located in the rural countryside to the west of Longford Town.

• Aghareagh House, farmyard complex, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings associated with Aghareagh House (13401324), built c. 1870, comprising multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to the west and a three-bay single-storey building with attic level to the east. Currently out of use. Pitched natural slate roofs, partially collapsed to west range. Raised verges to gable ends of two-storey outbuilding, remains of cast-iron rainwater goods. Squared and roughly dressed rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings to ground floor of two-storey outbuilding and to single-storey building to the east having red brick dressings, stone sills and fixed timber windows. Circular openings to two-storey outbuilding having red brick surrounds. Square-headed doorways to both buildings with (remains) of timber battened doors. Two elliptical-headed carriage arches to two-storey building having polychrome (alternating light and dark coloured voussoirs) dressed limestone voussoirs and surrounds. Coursed rubble limestone boundary walls to yard with double-leaf cast- and wrought-iron gates to south side. Walled garden on square-plan to the south of yard and to the west of house having coursed rubble limestone boundary walls. Set back from road in shared grounds with Aghareagh House (134013024), to the northwest of the main house. Located to the west of Longford Town.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1695 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Aghareagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Aghareagh · Achadh Riabhach

Area

729,888 m² (72.99 ha, 180.36 acres)

Civil parish

Templemichael, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Cloondara, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cloondara electoral division: 718 people in 265 households; 80% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyminion, Brownbog, Cartrons, Cleggill, Cloontirm, Lissanurlan, Mullagh, Tully

Placenames

Aghareagh 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.