Aghadreenan

75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghadreenan, from 57 m² to 82,397 m² (8.24 ha, 20.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Aghadreenan 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.

• 26 Jun 2026Conditional

  permission to construct a Two Storey style dwelling house, Detached domestic garage, new Foul wastewater treatment system & percolation area, new entrance onto public road and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2660264

• 6 Sept 2023Conditional

  permission for infilling of lands with soil, subsoil and inert material in order to raise the levels and reclaim the land for agricultural purposes together with all ancillary site development works. The lands will be covered with topsoil and reseeded with grass when completed

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2360196

• 16 Mar 2022N/a

  permission for a development consisting of the infilling of lands with soil, subsoil and inert material in order to raise the levels and reclaim the land for agricultural purposes together with all ancillary site development works. The lands will be covered with topsoil and reseeded with grass when completed.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 22125

• 30 Jan 2020Conditional

  permission to construct a single storey style dwelling house, domestic garage, new sewerage, wastewater treatment system, and new entrance onto public road and all associated site development works. Significant further information relates to the submission of a traffic survey report

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2034

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Aghadreenan.

Recorded monuments

• MO025-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the SE end of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This rath is depicted on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793) and on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. It is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 28.4m NNE-SSW; 26m NW-SE) that slopes down from the centre to the SE (H 1.6m). It is defined by an earthen bank (at SE: Wth of base 7m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 2.3m) that is largely reduced to an outer scarp (at NW: Wth 4.8m; H 2m), and an outer fosse (at SE: Wth 2m; D 0.2m) often reduced to a berm (at NW: Wth 2.2m) and replaced by a field bank SSW-W. The entrance (Wth of base 2.6m) and causeway (Wth of top 2.3m; H 0.7m) are at SE. The perimeter has been quarried NNW-NE. The rath has become largely overgrown with furze since 1968 (OSAP, 2005). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 27 July 2018

• MO025-025 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the SE-facing spine of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This rath is depicted on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793) and on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. It is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 35m NNW-SSE; c. 32m ENE-WSW) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at SW: Wth of base c. 5m; int. H c. 1m; ext. H 2m) that is replaced by a field bank SE-S, and traces of an outer fosse or drain (at SW: Wth of top 3.6m; Wth of base 2.8m; ext. D 0.5m) S-NW. It is surrounded by and a road bank SW-WNW. The original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 27 July 2018

Architectural heritage

• Thornford House, store/warehouse, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay three-storey grain store, built c. 1820, part of former corn and flax mill. No roof. Gabled walls, red brick eaves course. Rubble stone walls, portion of wall to front (south) elevation missing. Red brick segmental-headed openings. Standing on roadside at entrance to former mill complex, having dressed stone gate piers abutting west gable. Ruinous rubble stone linear structure to west.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Aghadreenan.

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 Aghadreenan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Aghadreenan · Achadh Draighneach

Area

934,814 m² (93.48 ha, 231 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Broomfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Broomfield electoral division: 831 people in 264 households; 87% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Agheeshal, Cornahawla, Cornalough, Drumganus Lower, Drumharriff North, Monygorbet, Mullaghanee

Placenames

Aghadreenan 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.