Aghintemple
Townland in the civil parish of Ardagh, barony of Ardagh, Co. Longford; in Irish Achadh an Teampaill
- Area
- 72 ha
- 178 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 9,789 m² (0.98 ha, 2.42 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghintemple, from 2,301 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres) to 575,941 m² (57.59 ha, 142.32 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Aghintemple 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
11 Feb 2019Conditional
to construct a 5 bay slatted shed with lie back area's, creep area's and all ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 1934
21 Jan 2019Conditional
the proposed construction of a two story type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable on site treatment system withy percolation area and ancillary site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 1911
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: Derrymore Bog 000447
Recorded monuments
- LF014-092001 Church
Description
Within a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (LF014-092002-), just off-centre to the NE. Depicted on an early 17th-century map of Ardagh barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.ii.25) as the church of 'Lissabane'. Only fragmentary remains (ext. dims. c. 14m E-W; c. 8m N-S; wall T 0.95m) survive. It was constructed of large boulders. No architectural features are evident. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 June 2013
- LF014-092002 Ecclesiastical enclosure
Description
On a SW-facing slope in pasture. Depicted on all eds. of the OS 6-inch map as subcircular enclosure (c. 90m N-S; c. 85m E-W) and designated 'Fort' on the 1837 and 1887 eds. The enclosure has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary from NW-N-E. Elsewhere it has been levelled but its outline is still identifiable. There is a church (LF014-092001-) in the interior just off-centre to the NE. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 June 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghintemple.
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aghintemple.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Aghintemple with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Aghintemple · Achadh an Teampaill
- Area
- 720,412 m² (72.04 ha, 178.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ardagh
- Electoral division
- Ardagh West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ardagh West electoral division: 509 people in 173 households; 89% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghanahown, Cartronawar, Clooncaulfield, Cooleeny, Killinlastra, Rabbitpark
- Placenames
- Aghintemple 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.