Asnagh

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Asnagh, from 612 m² to 495,637 m² (49.56 ha, 122.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Asnagh 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Asnagh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Ardagullion Bog SAC 002341
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ardagullion Bog 002069

Recorded monuments

• LF015-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope in low-lying pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 25.9m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (H 0.5m max.) with a shallow intervening fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.5m) and an outer bank (H 0.4m). The latter has been levelled from NNW–N–ESE but its outline (Wth 5.3m) is still identifiable in places. A wide break (Wth 5.4m) in the bank at ESE with an accompanying causeway marks the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 23 November 2011

Architectural heritage

• Worker's house, house, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former worker's house on L-shaped plan, built c. 1890, having return to the rear (south) and having projecting gable-fronted bay to the centre of the main elevation (north). Now in use as a private house. Hipped natural slate roofs with painted masonry chimneystacks, terracotta ridge crestings and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched natural slate roof to projecting bay to front elevation (north) having decorative timber bargeboards. Squared and roughly dressed limestone walls, with initials ‘J. N’ (?) incised to northeast elevation. Square-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds (flush), cut limestone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. No doorway to front elevation. Square-headed door opening to rear (south) with timber battened half-door. Set well back from road to the northeast of Edgeworthstown. Detached four-bay single-storey outbuilding to rear (south) with hipped natural slate roof, roughly dressed squared rubble limestone walls, and square-headed door openings with (flush) red brick block-and-start surrounds, limestone plinth blocks and timber fittings (battened and open boarded). Main entrance gate to the northwest of house comprising a pair of roughly dressed squared limestone rubble gate piers (on square-plan) having wrought-iron gate. Rubble stone boundary walls with crenellated coping over, rendered boundary walls and wrought-iron gates to site.

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1880, now disused. Hipped natural slate roof with a central pair of rendered chimneystacks and sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Central round-headed door opening to main elevation (southwest) with timber battened door and plain fanlight. No outbuildings, gates, railings or boundary walls. Set back from a lane, off road, in own grounds. Grounds now heavily overgrown. Located to the southwest of Granard and the northeast of Edgeworthstown.

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 10 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 Asnagh.

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 Asnagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Asnagh · Easnach

Area

1,819,679 m² (181.97 ha, 449.65 acres)

Civil parish

Granard, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Milltown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Milltown electoral division: 367 people in 130 households; 89% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardagullion, Cloonshannagh or Coolamber Manor Demesne, Cranalagh Beg, Kilcourcey, Ringowny, Tully

Placenames

Asnagh 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.