Aghafin

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghafin, from 522 m² to 113,554 m² (11.36 ha, 28.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Aghafin 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.

• 13 Aug 2019Conditional

  permission to demolish existing two storey dwelling house and construct a new replacement two storey dwelling house with detached domestic garage, install a new mechanical effluent treatment system and subsoil polishing filter, use existing domestic entrance together with all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19374

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 Aghafin.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghafin.

Architectural heritage

• Aghafin House, house, 1835–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey over basement house, built 1836 and extended c.1900, having three-bay south-west elevation, porch to front (south-east) elevation, and L-plan four-bay two-storey former outbuildings to rear having arcaded inner elevation and now incorporated into house. Rear block also has oriel windows to first floor of external elevation. Hipped slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, paired rendered chimneystacks with clay chimneypots, and with timber eaves brackets to projecting eaves. Harl-rendered walls, having painted tooled stone string course at plinth level. Ruled-and-lined render to porch. Square-headed window openings, those to ground floor front set into segmental-headed recesses, with painted masonry sills. Timber sliding sash windows throughout, front elevation having two-over-two pane windows and one tripartite six-over-six pane to first floor of entrance bay, south-west elevation having six-over-six pane and some one-over-one pane windows to ground and first floors and three-over-three to basement, rear and north-east elevations and return having one-over-one pane windows. Oriels have one-over-one pane and four-over-four pane windows, with rectangular panels and carved timber valences to aprons. Two round-headed window openings to first floor of addition to south-west elevation of addition. Some cast-iron railings to windows at basement level and to rear. Front elevation of porch flanked by pilasters and having pediment over. Square-headed door opening having timber panelled door, flanked by square-headed sidelights with painted sills and decorative leaded windows. Door opens onto platform of four flagged limestone steps. Arcade of three-centred arches to rear block, with painted keystones.

• Aghafin House, gate lodge, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay split level gate lodge, built c.1850, having single-storey front (north) elevation and two-storey rear, and with single-storey addition to rear. Now unoccupied. Hipped slate roof having red brick chimneystack, clay ridge tiles, timber eaves supports, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls, rubble limestone visible in places. Square-headed window openings to front, having painted masonry sills and leaded pivot awning windows. Square-headed window openings to ground floor level of east and west side elevations, with painted masonry sills and replacement timber windows. Square-headed door openings to front and to east elevation of rear addition, with timber panelled doors, carved to front elevation. Gateway to north of house comprising double-leaf cast-iron gate flanked by pair of octagonal-plan, painted, tooled stone piers, having pointed capping. Single-leaf cast-iron pedestrian gates to each side, with octagonal-plan painted tooled stone piers, and matching railings on rendered plinth wall.

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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Aghafin · Achadh Fionn

Area

753,900 m² (75.39 ha, 186.29 acres)

Civil parish

Clones, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Clones Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clones Rural electoral division: 1,612 people in 603 households; 74% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coraghy, Drumaddagorry, Lisoarty, Longfield, Magheranure

Placenames

Aghafin 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.