Aghnavealoge

84 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghnavealoge, from 295 m² to 310,642 m² (31.06 ha, 76.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Aghnavealoge 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.

• 25 Sept 2018Conditional

  proposed construction of a two storey type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18207

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 Aghnavealoge.

Recorded monuments

• LF024-008 Road - class 2 togher
  Description

  Local report of a togher: portions of it were uncovered regularly in the past during turf-cutting. It comprised a single line of planks laid lengthwise and a series of low, upright stakes. It was aligned approximately NW-SE. The last portion was uncovered c. 1970 after which turf-cutting ceased in the area. It is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Newport House, house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1780 and altered c. 1860, having recessed bay (c. 1860) to the north end of the front elevation (east), recent single-storey glazed porch to the front elevation, and two-bay two-storey return to the rear (west). Pitched natural slate roof with two rendered chimneystacks (one to south gable end and one to the former north gable end) having terracotta pots over and having cast-iron rainwater goods. Hipped artificial slate roof to modern porch. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills and diminishing one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to entrance porch having half-glazed timber panelled door, square-headed door opening to interior of porch with overlight and early timber panelled door. Timber shutters visible to window interiors. Set back from road in own grounds to the east of Legan. Two detached single-storey outbuildings and stables (c. 1880) to the rear (west) having pitched natural slate roofs (one having sheet metal vent supporting metal weather vane over), painted roughly coursed painted limestone walls, square-headed window openings with multiple-pane metal-framed casement windows and limestone sills, and square-headed door openings having cut limestone plinth blocks and timber battened doors or half-doors. Single-storey barn (13402408) adjacent to the north. Rendered boundary walls with crenellated limestone coping over to road-frontage to the east. Pedestrian gateway to the east comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having recessed rectangular panels and having a decorative wrought-iron gate. Section of rubble stone wall to the southwest of house having hooped wrought-iron flat bar gate. Other rubble limestone walls to site.

• Newport House, outbuilding, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay single-storey barn with attic associated with Newport House (13402401), built c. 1890. Single-bay single-storey shed with pitched natural and artificial slate roof attached to rear (west). Pitched corrugated-metal roof with cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered random rubble limestone walls, cement rendered to east elevation, having dressed limestone block-and-start limestone quoins to the corners. Square-headed door openings at attic level to gable apexes, having timber battened doors. Shallow segmental-headed carriage arch to east and south elevations having dressed limestone voussoirs and dressed limestone block-and-start surrounds. Segmental-headed door openings to west gable end and north elevations having red brick voussoirs. Modern corrugated-metal doors to most openings. Located adjacent to the north of Newport House (13402401) and to the east of Legan. Set slightly back from road with rendered boundary walls with crenellated limestone coping over to road-frontage to the east. Gateway to the northeast comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having wrought-iron flat bar gates. Hooped wrought-iron pedestrian gate to the south elevation.

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).

No address of the register names Aghnavealoge with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Aghnavealoge · Achadh na bhFéithleog

Area

1,449,296 m² (144.93 ha, 358.13 acres)

Civil parish

Rathreagh, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Foxhall, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Carrigeen, Clontymullan, Emper (Co. Westmeath), Kinard, Newport, Newtown

Placenames

Aghnavealoge on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.