Allenagh
Allenagh is a townland in the civil parish of Templemichael, barony of Ardagh, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is An tÁth Linneach.
- Area
- 37.7 ha
- 93 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 1,031 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Allenagh, from 17 m² to 224,629 m² (22.46 ha, 55.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Allenagh 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
17 Aug 2023Conditional
proposed two storey dwelling with single storey annex to side, detached garage, formation of new entrance, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter area and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2360111
11 Nov 2020Conditional
construction of a two storey type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable treatment system with percolation area & ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 20267
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Allenagh.
Recorded monuments
- LF014-007 Ringfort - rath
Description
At the base of a low SE-facing hill in pasture. Extant remains comprise a raised circular area (diam. 41.1m) defined by a steep scarp (H 0.2-1.9m). A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded an external fosse and a low outer bank, both of which have since been levelled. The NE quadrant has been destroyed due to roadworks. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Allenagh.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Allenagh, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Allenagh.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Allenagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Allenagh · An tÁth Linneach
- Area
- 376,723 m² (37.67 ha, 93.09 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templemichael, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ardagh
- Electoral division
- Cloonee, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 767 people lived in 271 households in the Cloonee electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymacwilliam, Carrickglass Demesne, Carrickglass Demesne, Cartron Big, Clooncoose, Corradooey
- Placenames
- Allenagh 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.