Aghoo

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghoo, from 8,640 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres) to 1,918,785 m² (191.88 ha, 474.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Aghoo 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 Aghoo 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: Glenamoy Bog Complex SAC 000500

Recorded monuments

• MA013-001 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964) Date of upload: 30 December 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Aghoo, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aghoo.

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.

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

Name

Aghoo · Achadh

Area

2,044,516 m² (204.45 ha, 505.21 acres)

Civil parish

Doonfeeny, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Ballycastle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

585 people lived in 256 households in the Ballycastle electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinglen, Ballyknock, Glencullin, Killeena, Sralagagh East

Placenames

Aghoo 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.