# Aghakista, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aghnamullen, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Achadh an Chiste. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,042,764 m² (104.28 ha, 257.67 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 18,585 m² (1.86 ha, 4.59 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Aghnamullen, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/aghnamullen.md - Barony: Cremorne - Electoral division: Carrickatee, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 378 people lived in 118 households in the Carrickatee electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Monaghan, https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/39715 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170024 - Centre: latitude 54.090444, longitude -6.873871 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghakista, from 4,710 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres) to 44,920 m² (4.49 ha, 11.1 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 325862: 44,920 m² (4.49 ha, 11.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/325862.md - Parcel 329122: 24,344 m² (2.43 ha, 6.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/329122.md - Parcel 316911: 12,826 m² (1.28 ha, 3.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/316911.md - Parcel 330886: 4,710 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/330886.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Aghakista in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 1 Jun 2023, Monaghan County Council 2360097: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for the construction of a two-storey dwelling, attached garage, new entrance, gates and piers, installation of a wastewater treatment system and sand polishing area together with all ancillary and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360097/0 - 13 Jan 2023, Monaghan County Council 239: Refused. Permission, 1 home. permission for development consisting of a two-storey dwelling, attached garage, new entrance, gates and piers, installation of a wastewater treatment system and sand polishing area together with all ancillary and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/239/0 - 2 Jun 2021, Monaghan County Council 21310: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for the renovation and extension to existing cottage, relocation of existing entrance with new entrance gates and piers, complete the raised percolation area, install new treatment plant with all ancillary and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/21310/0 - 14 Sept 2018, Monaghan County Council 18431: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission to demolish an existing single storey dwelling and construct a two-storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, new wastewater treatment system & all associated site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/18431/0 - 5 Apr 2018, Monaghan County Council 18132: Refused. Permission, 1 home. permission to demolish an existing single storey dwelling and construct a two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, new wastewater treatment system & all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/18132/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Aghakista. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghakista. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Ashgrove, house, 1840–1880, Regional interest, registry number 41402412, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MO®no=41402412. Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1860. Now unoccupied, much overgrown, and derelict. Hipped slate roof with paired red brick chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with painted masonry sills, and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with internal panelled shutters. Segmental-headed door opening, having spoked fanlight, paned sidelights, and timber panelled door. Set in own grounds at roadside. Entrance comprising wrought-iron pedestrian gate flanked by square-plan rendered piers, and textured concrete block boundary walls. Yard to east having ruinous remains of multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to roadside, and multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding, with single-storey lean-to addition to west gable, to south of yard, having pitched slate and corrugated-iron roofs, rendered coursed rubble stone walls with enlarged quoins, and square-headed openings. Wrought-iron gate with square-plan rendered piers to yard entrance. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Aghakista, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2478, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2478.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/aghakista.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/aghakista.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/aghakista.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Aghakista with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan: https://everytownland.com/monaghan.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Annahaia: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/annahaia-170102.md - Carrickatee: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/carrickatee.md - Creeve: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/creeve-170587.md - Mullanary Cortannel: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/mullanary-cortannel.md - Roo: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/roo.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/aghakista - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/aghakista