Aghany

147 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghany, from 44 m² to 149,499 m² (14.95 ha, 36.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Aghany 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.

• 23 Jul 2026N/a

  (1) TO CONSTRUCT A PORCH TO FRONT OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) TO RETAIN AS CONSTRUCTED FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION AND REAR EXTENSION OF DWELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH ALL SITE SERVICES AT AGHANY, ROONAH POINT, LOUISBURGH, COUNTY MAYO

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660591

• 18 Oct 2024N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: 12m high stout wooden pole and 600mm radio link dish. The proposal will include a dual bay cabinet, fibre chamber and underground cable connectioins. The site will be partially enclosed by 1.2m high concrete bollards

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24445

• 11 Feb 2022Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING NON-HABITABLE COTTAGE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE WITH STORAGE SHED, PROPRIETARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2294

• 29 Nov 2018Conditional

  Extensions and alterations to existing house including all ancillary demolitions, siteworks and services

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18950

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: West Connacht Coast SAC 002998

Recorded monuments

• MA085-024 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA085-025 Crannog
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghany.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Aghany.

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 Aghany with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Aghany · Achanna

Area

1,953,535 m² (195.35 ha, 482.73 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgeever, and its townlands

Barony

Murrisk

Electoral division

Emlagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Emlagh electoral division: 331 people in 130 households; 88% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 40% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Askillaun, Emlagh

Placenames

Aghany 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.