# Aghnaskea, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killashee, barony of Moydow, Co. Longford; in Irish Achadh na Sceach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 178,695 m² (17.87 ha, 44.16 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,747 m² (0.37 ha, 0.93 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killashee, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/killashee.md - Barony: Moydow - Electoral division: Killashee, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 487 people lived in 185 households in the Killashee electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 55% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/33241 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130055 - Centre: latitude 53.683032, longitude -7.869434 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghnaskea, from 102 m² to 48,758 m² (4.88 ha, 12.05 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 78617: 48,758 m² (4.88 ha, 12.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/78617.md - Parcel 55343: 31,953 m² (3.2 ha, 7.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/55343.md - Parcel 2475659: 23,643 m² (2.36 ha, 5.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2475659.md - Parcel 4986299: 21,751 m² (2.18 ha, 5.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4986299.md - Parcel 69523: 17,897 m² (1.79 ha, 4.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/69523.md - Parcel 2475652: 10,340 m² (1.03 ha, 2.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2475652.md - Parcel 2516054: 7,343 m² (0.73 ha, 1.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2516054.md - Parcel 76769: 3,747 m² (0.37 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/76769.md - Parcel 52005: 2,287 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/52005.md - Parcel 61914: 2,260 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/61914.md - Parcel 70960: 2,193 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/70960.md - Parcel 5419414: 1,933 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5419414.md - Parcel 60320: 1,586 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/60320.md - Parcel 5371502: 1,576 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5371502.md - Parcel 63948: 102 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/63948.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Aghnaskea 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. - 14 Aug 2024, Longford County Council 2460173: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to demolish an existing shed structure, construction of a new two bedroom, single storey guesthouse with associated living facilities on site and to the south of an existing protected structure, 43rd Lock House (RPS no. 55), to provide a new accessible parking space and bike parking while retaining the existing 2 no. parking spaces to the front of the site between the lock house and proposed guesthouse, and all associated site works including a new on site surface water soakaway. The development will provide an accessible approach, entry and circulation to and within the guesthouse. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460173/0 - 4 Aug 2023, Longford County Council 2360100: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the proposed construction of an extension to the rear of an existing single storey dwelling house which is listed as a protected structure/structures on the protected structures list of the Longford County Development Plan 2021-2027, i.e. RPS no. 55, and all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360100/0 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) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghnaskea. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1825–1830, Regional interest, registry number 13311008, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF®no=13311008. Detached Roman Catholic church on cruciform-plan, dated 1829, having three-bay elevations, single-bay transepts to the north and south and a single-bay chancel to the east end. Rendered bellcote with cross finial over to nave gable (west). Single-storey sacristy added to the east end and single-bay entrance porch to the west gable end. Pitched slate roofs, rendered chimneystack to sacristy. Painted roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course having carved limestone plaque to west elevation. Pointed arch window openings having stained glass windows and painted limestone sills. Pointed arch window opening to porch, west elevation, with lattice glazed stained glass window. Square-headed door openings to north elevation and porch having timber battened double doors. A-frame timber roof with struts to interior having rendered corbels. Gallery with cast-iron railings having quatrefoil motifs to parapet and cast-iron spiral staircase. Set slightly back from the road to the east of Killashee. - Aghnaskea Bridge, bridge, 1810–1820, Regional interest, registry number 13311009, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF®no=13311009. Single-arch canal accommodation bridge carrying small road over Royal Canal, built c. 1817. Round/elliptical-headed arch with dressed limestone voussoirs and ashlar limestone walls. Cut limestone string course at road level. Dressed limestone parapets with curving ends terminated in dressed limestone piers (on square-plan). Replacement concrete blocks to south parapet wall, east end. Located to the east of Killashee. Limestone flagging to embankment. - 43rd Lock, lock, 1810–1820, Regional interest, registry number 13311010, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF®no=13311010. Canal lock associated with Royal Canal, built c. 1815, consisting of pair of timber and steel breast gates with timber footboards and balance beams. Set within ashlar limestone lock chamber with ashlar limestone capstones with bevelled edges. Associated lock keeper's house (13311011) to the west. Located to the east of Killashee. - 43rd Lock, lock keeper's house, 1810–1820, Regional interest, registry number 13311011, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF®no=13311011. Detached three-bay single-storey lock keeper's house, built 1815, with single-storey flat-roofed extension to rear (west). Now in use as private house. Hipped natural slate roof with central rendered chimneystack and cut stone eaves course. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings, set in recessed segmental-headed arches, with cut stone sills and replacement windows. Central square-headed doorway to main elevation (west), set in recessed segmental-headed arch, having replacement door. Located adjacent to lock 43 (13311007) and to the east of Killashee. ## 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 Aghnaskea, 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. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aghnaskea. - 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/aghnaskea.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/aghnaskea.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/aghnaskea.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Aghnaskea 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-130104.md - Cloonsheerin: https://everytownland.com/longford/cloonsheerin.md - Killashee and Aghakeeran: https://everytownland.com/longford/killashee-and-aghakeeran.md - Moygh: https://everytownland.com/longford/moygh-130760.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/aghnaskea - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/aghnaskea