Agharra

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Agharra, from 484 m² to 354,738 m² (35.47 ha, 87.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Agharra 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.

• 19 Feb 2020Conditional

  construction of a new forestry access entrance to an existing mature forestry and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2040

• 20 Jun 2019Conditional

  provision of new farm access and entrance gate and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 19164

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 Agharra.

Recorded monuments

• LF024-006 Enclosure
  Description

  On the SSE slope of a low hill in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure on the Grand Jury map (1813) but not marked on any ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The monument is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF024-007001 Church
  Description

  On a gentle SE-facing slope, within the E half of a graveyard (LF024-007002-). In 1593 John Lye was granted a 21 year lease of the 'church of Agherie' (Nicholls 1994, vol. 3, 218). Depicted on an early 17th-century map of Shrule barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.ii.26) as the church of 'Lissevarrow'. Two phases of construction are evident in this church (ext. dims. 18.15m E-W; 7m N-S). The earlier phase dates to the early medieval period and comprises the W half of the church (ext. dims. 9.85m E-W; wall T 0.85m) where cyclopean masonry, similar in style to the churches at Ardagh (LF019-050001-) and Cloondara (LF013-018----), is evident. Access is gained via a lintelled doorway in the W gable. High up in the N and S walls are broken out windows. The E window has been blocked up and a doorway that was subsequently inserted into the wall gives access to a late-medieval extension (L 8.3m; wall T 0.95m) that must have served as a chancel. Its E gable wall has a marked base-batter and contains a single-light, 16th-century window. In the S wall, close to the E gable, are two aumbries and a small, flat-headed, single-light window. In the N wall, at the W end of chancel, a relieving arch indicates the former presence of a doorway that was subsequently blocked up. (ITA Survey 1944; Leask 1955, vol. 1, 58) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 June 2013

• LF024-007002 Graveyard
  Description

  On a gentle SE-facing slope. Associated with a church (LF024-007001-) that is located in its E half. This small, rectangular graveyard (54m E-W; 28m N-S) is enclosed by a 19th-century stone wall and contains memorials dating from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Access is via a wrought-iron gate and a stile in the centre of the W wall. It is no longer in use. (ITA Survey 1944; Lennon 2005) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 June 2013

• LF024-007003 Graveslab
  Description

  Associated with the church (LF04-007001-). A report in 1942 (ITA Survey) recorded a graveslab lying on the ground within the church. It was described it as a ‘small inscribed cross … about 21/2 feet [0.76m] high and nearly the same in width’. Apart from the date 1633, the inscription was not clear. Not located. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 June 2013

• LF024-009 Bridge
  Description

  Spanning the Inny River which separates counties Longford and Westmeath. Described in 1682 as a stone bridge (Gillespie and Moran 1991, 209), the present structure comprises a central single-arched section, dating from c. 1860, with remnants of earlier multiple-arched bridge(s) to either side at the NW and SE which may incorporate remains dating to the 17th century. (www.buildingsofireland.ie, Reg. 13402406, last accessed 26 March 2012). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 10 May 2012

• WM010-042 Bridge
  Description

  Described in 1682 by Nicholas Dowdall as a stone bridge at 'Balnacarrow [Ballynacarrow] so called from a fishing near the River' (Gillespie and Moran 1991, 209). In the same year the bridge was described by Sir Henry Piers of Tristernagh as a 'late built bridge, not much more than of twenty years standing. The situation of this bridge (however it was built till our days) seemeth to have been laid out by nature, for it is founded on a rock, which lay always conspicuous (unless in great floods) in a straight line across the river, and at just distances to receive and sustain the arches of a bridge' (Vallancey 1786, 4-5). Present remains consist of a single-arched 19th or 20th-century bridge spanning the River Inny. On the Longford side of this bridge to the NW there is evidence of an earlier bridge consisting of five arches which appears to have been associated with a Corn Mill that is indicated on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map. This earlier bridge may incorporate remains of the 17th-century bridge described by Nicholas Dowdall. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 6 December 2016

Architectural heritage

• Ballynacarrow Bridge, bridge, 1700–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Road bridge over River Inny, built c. 1700 and altered c. 1860, comprising central single-arched section of River Inny, built c. 1860, with remnants of earlier multiple-arched bridge(s) to either side (northwest and southeast). Segmental-headed arch to central section having rock-faced limestone voussoirs with dressed margins. Squared coursed rock-faced limestone spandrel walls, parapets and abutments with rock-faced limestone string course at road deck level and rock-faced limestone string courses to impost level of arch/abutments. Squared dressed limestone masonry to barrel. Rounded cut limestone coping over parapets. Terminating coursed rock-faced piers (on square-plan) to either end of central arch having dressed limestone capstones over to ends of parapets. Ramped approaches to central arch either side (southeast and northwest) having redundant segmental-headed arches, three to southeast (County Westmeath side) and five to northwest (County Longford side). Rubble limestone construction to earlier parts of bridge having roughly squared rubble stone voussoirs to arches. Some arches now blocked. Rubble stone coping to parapets and wing walls. Spans border with County Westmeath, and located to the southeast of Legan.

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1845 (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 Agharra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Agharra · Eachara

Area

1,801,338 m² (180.13 ha, 445.12 acres)

Civil parish

Agharra, and its townlands

Barony

Shrule

Electoral division

Agharra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Agharra electoral division: 480 people in 173 households; 85% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardanragh, Ballymaglavy (Co. Westmeath), Ballynacarrow (Co. Westmeath), Castlewilder, Cloonbrin, Lissawarriff

Placenames

Agharra 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.