Aghanascortan
Townland in the civil parish of Killyon, barony of Moyfenrath Upper, Co. Meath
- Area
- 11.9 ha
- 29 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 2,983 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghanascortan, from 353 m² to 59,561 m² (5.96 ha, 14.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 25 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Sept 2022Conditional
retention permission to retain existing garage first floor home office and gym and all associated ancillary site services
Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 221232
12 Sept 2022N/a
retention permission to retain existing garage first floor home office and gym and all associated ancillary site services
Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 221189
3 Jun 2022Refused
retention permission to retain existing garage first floor habitable accommodation as ancillary accommodation to main dwelling and all associated ancillary site services
Retention · Meath County Council, 22736
21 Sept 2020Conditional
a new dormer bungalow type dwelling house, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, septic tank & percolation area and all associated ancillary site services. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, TA201322
7 Dec 2017Conditional
a new dormer type dwelling along with a detached single storey domestic garage, together with access from public road via new recessed entrance, installation of a new proprietary waste water treatment system together with all associated landscaping, site works and services. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, TA171415
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 Aghanascortan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghanascortan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghanascortan.
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
- 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2342 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Aghanascortan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Aghanascortan
- Area
- 119,366 m² (11.94 ha, 29.5 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killyon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moyfenrath Upper
- Electoral division
- Hill of Down, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Hill of Down electoral division: 583 people in 191 households; 92% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Anneville or Clonard Old
- Placenames
- Aghanascortan 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.