Aghafad

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghafad, from 28 m² to 63,023 m² (6.3 ha, 15.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Aghafad 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.

• 25 Aug 2026N/a

  permission for the development will consist of the erection of a detached two-storey split level dwelling with single storey elements, detached garage, site access to the public road with entrance gates and piers, access lane, waste-water treatment plant with percolation area, landscaping features including retaining walls and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2660352

• 12 Mar 2026Conditional

  permissions for a development which will consist of: to construct a detached storey and a half garage together with all ancillary & associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660087

• 5 Mar 2026N/a

  permission for a development which will consist of: permission to construct a detached storey and a half garage together with all ancillary & associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660070

• 26 Feb 2026N/a

  permission for the development will consist of; the retention and completion of the internal layout, elevational changes and siteworks to a dwelling previously granted under references ref. 16/72 and 21/9010, Significant further information received relates to submitted, Traffic Impact Report, Landscape Plans, Visual assessment report, proposed drawings

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2660058

• 18 Feb 2026N/a

  permission for development the development will consist of; The retention and completion of the internal layout, elevational changes and siteworks to a dwelling previously granted under references ref. 16/72 and 21/9010

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2660046

• 11 Sept 2024N/a

  permission for a change of house type from the previously approved two storey split level dwelling (Reg. Ref. 1671 / Reg. Ref. 2190009) to a two-storey split level dwelling with single storey elements, proposed new garage, revised entrance gates and piers, revised access lane and all associated site works, Significant Further Information received relates to submitted, Site Plan, sections & Entrance details revised, Plans, Sections, elevations revised, Design amendments view 1,2,3,4, photomontage 1&2

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460340

• 6 Jun 2023N/a

  permission to consist of; change of house type from that granted under planning ref 1672 and 219010

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2360104

• 16 Mar 2021Conditional

  Permission to construct a two storey split level dwelling, integrated domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area and associated site works off new entrance.

  Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 219009

• 16 Mar 2021Conditional

  Permission to construct a two storey split level dwelling, integrated domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area and associated site works off new entrance.

  Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 219010

• 11 Jan 2021Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of detached domestic storey and a half garage to include home/office space on first floor and new entrance piers and details and associated site works. Previous planning permission 14/205

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 216

• 2 Dec 2020N/a

  permission for a development consisting of detached domestic storey and a half garage to include home/office space on first floor and new entrance piers and details and associated site works. Previous planning permission 14/205.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 20519

• 22 Jun 2020Conditional

  Permission for conversion of existing detached garage and extension to existing dwelling to self-contained unit, also construction of two number attached stores to rear of extension and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20228

• 3 Apr 2017Conditional

  permission to construct new front piers and entrance gates

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17153

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 Aghafad.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghafad.

Architectural heritage

• Ballymackney Church (Killanny), church/chapel, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Ruinous freestanding four-bay Church of Ireland church, built c.1850, having bellcote to west gable, and gabled entrance porch to south elevation. Roofless, with evidence of pitched roofs, cut-stone copings. Gabled cut-stone bellcote, having chamfered pointed-arch opening. Snecked limestone walls with ashlar limestone quoins and kneelered gables. Bipartite lancet window openings with chamfered ashlar reveals to north and south elevations, tripartite lancet window openings with chamfered ashlar reveals to west gable, having some remaining quarry-glazed leaded windows. Pointed-arch door opening to porch, having ashlar reveals, chamfered to arch. Standing on elevated site having rubble stone boundary retaining wall. Site entrance to south-east of site, with cast-iron gate flanked by rubble stone piers, approached by flight of five dressed limestone steps.

• Mill (wind), 1740–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Remains of freestanding round-plan windmill, built c.1760. Roofless. Rubble limestone walls. Square-headed slit window openings to first floor. Two opposed square-headed door openings to ground floor. Sited on elevated, exposed site.

• Bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch stone bridge carrying road over Longfield River built c.1820. Round arches having roughly dressed voussoirs. Rubble stone walls, soffits and copings to parapets. Stone V-cutwaters to both elevations. Projecting stepping stones to both sides of south-east parapet to south-east bank.

• New Bridge, bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch stone bridge carrying road over Longfield River, built c.1820. Segmental arches, middle being wider and slightly taller, having roughly dressed voussoirs. Rubble stone walls and soffits. Dressed stone copings to parapets, having incised benchmark to north parapet. Stone V-cutwater and U-cutwater to north elevation.

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 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 Aghafad.

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

Name

Aghafad · Achadh Fada

Area

411,791 m² (41.18 ha, 101.76 acres)

Civil parish

Killanny, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Ballymackney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymackney electoral division: 1,001 people in 335 households; 92% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolaha, Drumever, Lannat (Co. Louth), Tullydrum (Co. Louth), Tullyraine (Co. Louth)

Placenames

Aghafad 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.