Aghaliskeevan
Townland in the civil parish of Errigal Trough, barony of Trough, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Achadh Lios Caomháin
- Area
- 20.6 ha
- 51 acres
- Land parcels
- 1
- registered freehold, median 1,388 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Aghaliskeevan, from 1,388 m² to 1,388 m². The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 0 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
No zone of a development plan covers Aghaliskeevan 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
24 Feb 2025Conditional
permission to roof the existing silage pit for use as an agricultural store
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560063
9 Nov 2018Conditional
Permission to construct 1 No. poultry house and 1No. Manure/general Purpose store together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tank(s) and site works ( including new/upgraded site entrance)
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18524
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 Aghaliskeevan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghaliskeevan.
Architectural heritage
- Fort Singleton, house, 1755–1765 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1760, having shallow central breakfront to front (east) elevation, full-height extension to south, and formerly with return to rear (west) now demolished. Currently under renovation. M-profile hipped slate roof with Portland stone chimneystacks and clay chimneypots, cast-iron rainwater goods and moulded limestone coping to eaves to front elevation (partly replacement). Exposed coursed squared limestone walls, having squared block-and-start quoins, rendered originally. Square-headed door and window openings with red brick surrounds and tooled limestone sills to windows. Gauged brick round-headed door opening to front having spoked fanlight with timber surround on moulded limestone cornice lintel, over square-headed door opening flanked by tripartite sidelights. L-plan outbuilding to south-west, with pitched roof, coursed rubble stone walls, square-headed openings having timber louvered vents to first floor, and with timber fittings to door and window openings to ground floor. Outbuilding to rear of house with pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, limestone coping, curved finial to west and weather vane to east. Coursed rubble limestone walls, battered to base to east, red brick dovecote to east gable. Remains of walled garden to south-east of house having square-headed opening with worked limestone lintel and inscription 'T.J.S / 1758'. Gateway to south comprising double-leaf wrought-iron gate flanked by round-profile rubble limestone piers and walls.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Aghaliskeevan.
- 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 Aghaliskeevan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Aghaliskeevan · Achadh Lios Caomháin
- Area
- 206,451 m² (20.65 ha, 51.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Errigal Trough, and its townlands
- Barony
- Trough
- Electoral division
- Anketell Grove, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Anketell Grove electoral division: 1,278 people in 400 households; 86% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Attiduff, Curkin, Killycorran, Lisgrew, Shanco
- Placenames
- Aghaliskeevan 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.