Aghananimy
Townland in the civil parish of Monaghan, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Achadh an Anama
- Area
- 47.8 ha
- 118 acres
- Land parcels
- 48
- registered freehold, median 1,163 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghananimy, from 148 m² to 162,623 m² (16.26 ha, 40.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 18 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C6Existing Commercial (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1Industry/Enterprise/Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Landscape Protection/Conservation (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Jan 2026Conditional
permission to apply to the above named authority for planning permission to retain and complete a detached domestic garage with ancillary equine accommodation and all associated works
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2660002
25 Aug 2025N/a
permission for development which consists of the demolition of the existing unused house and the construction of a new two storey dwelling house, an altered location of the entrance to serve the site and a plot to the west of the site, connection to the foul sewer in the area and all associated site works, Significant Further Information received relates to submitted, Revised site layout plan, Road Safety Audit stage 1, proposed storm drainage layout & Flood Risk Assessment
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560343
11 Aug 2025Conditional
Retention permission and permission for the residential development as under construction pursuant to permission 19441 (as extended under 25/9002). Retention Permission is sought for the following works:•Amendments to units 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37, 38 and 39 which incorporate a single storey rear extension;•Amendment to unit 30 to omit the underpass walkway;•Amendments to facades and design of units 28-41 as constructed;•Reconfiguration of rear garden walls to rear of units 36-41.•Reconfiguration of curtilage for units 36-41. Permission is sought for the following works:•Revised phasing within the overall scheme;•Provision of an ESB substation;•Revised boundary wall to rear gardens of units 36-41;•Revised road layout at front of unit 35 so that the shared surface connects into the wider estate road;•Amendments to house units 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 26 to provide for a single storey rear extension;•Amendments to units 2, 8 and 25 to omit the underpass walkways;•Amendments to façade and design of units 1-27;•Associated amendments to site landscaping and ancillary works within the site. Significant Further Information received relates to an Outdoor Lighting Report, Housing Quality Assessment, revised project description, and amended drawings.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560317
4 Aug 2025N/a
planning permission for a development consisting of demolition of existing unused house and the construction of a new two storey dwelling house, an altered location of the entrance to serve the site and a plot to the west of the site, connection to the foul sewer in the area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560300
2 May 2025Conditional
retention of changes to house plans and elevational changes from that previously granted under planning ref. 21/213 and all associated site works
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 2560177
3 Mar 2025Conditional
permission for development consisting of (a) site works to facilitate the proposed development to include excavation and general site preparation works. (b) creation of an access point to the lands via Latlorcan estate along with construction of a bridge to facilitate the internal access road to the lands. (c) provision of internal access roads and footpaths to facilitate vehicular and pedestrian access. (d) provision of a residential development comprising 42 no. units in total as follows: house type A - 3 no. 3 bed semi-detached dwellings, house type B - 15 no. 2 bed semi-detached dwellings, house type C - 4 no. 3 bed semi-detached dwellings, house type D - 8 no. 2 bed terrace dwellings, house type E - 5 no. 3 bed terrace dwellings, house type F - 5 no. 4 bed terrace dwellings, house type G - 2 no. 4 bed semi-detached dwellings. (e) provision of associated garden areas and in-curtilage works for each dwelling to include parking boundary fencing and boundary walls as required. (f) provision of residential communal open space areas to include all hard and soft landscape works within the site which includes public lighting, public seating, planting works, a children's play area and boundary treatments. (g) creation of a pedestrian access onto Dublin Road. (h) associated site works and attenuation systems as well as all ancillary site development/construction works to facilitate site drainage and foul networks for connection to the existing foul, storm and public water networks along with connection works to the ESB network. Significant Further Information relates to the submission of a road safety audit, a flood risk assessment and water protection plan.
Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 259002
31 May 2024Conditional
permission to retain as constructed changes to two storey type dwelling house with attic storage loft and as constructed changes to detached storey and a half games room and domestic storage area to rear of dwelling previously granted in Planning Permission Ref. No. 22-220 together with all associated site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460199
24 Apr 2024N/a
permission for development consisting of the demolition of the existing unused house and the construction of a new two storey dwelling house, with entrance via existing entrance, connection to the foul sewer in the area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2432
6 Apr 2022Refused
Permission for a development consisting of (a) the extension and elevational changes to the existing retail unit (b) the construction of a new welfare facility building for staff. Retention is also sought for (1) the erection of commercial signage (2) the erection of site boundary treatments, (3) the removal of an unauthorised mobile home (4) the operation of a car wash business. Significant further information received in relation to the submission of a revised site layout plan, the submission of a flood risk assessment plan, a road safety audit report and traffic and transport assessment.
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 22159
25 Mar 2022Conditional
retention permission sought for material change of use from domestic garage to habitable room together with elevational alteration and all associated site works
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 22136
22 Jun 2021N/a
permission for the installation of new silt trap, interceptor & foul pump station, pumped connection to Monaghan town foul system, development of existing entrance to include setback, secure gates & Acco drainage, construction of new building to facilitate a private indoor car wash facility and permission to retain existing hardstanding currently used as private car parking area all or activities associated with the applicant's business operation
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21367
23 Apr 2021Conditional
Permission to consist of a two storey extension to front, side and rear of existing two storey dwelling to include elevational changes and alterations to existing dwelling house and all ancillary site works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21213
18 Nov 2020N/a
Permission for retention of an unauthorised development consisting of the erection of commercial signage and site boundary treatments, along with the removal on an authorised mobile home
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 20498
19 Sept 2019Conditional
permission for development consisting of (a) site works to facilitate the proposed development to include excavation and general site preparation works. (b) creation of an access point to the lands via Latlorcan estate along with construction of a bridge to facilitate the internal access road to the lands. (c) provision of internal access roads and footpaths to facilitate vehicular and pedestrian access. (d) provision of a residential development comprising 42 no. units in total as follows: house type A - 3 no. 3 bed semi-detached dwellings, house type B - 15 no. 2 bed semi-detached dwellings, house type C - 4 no. 3 bed semi-detached dwellings, house type D - 8 no. 2 bed terrace dwellings, house type E - 5 no. 3 bed terrace dwellings, house type F - 5 no. 4 bed terrace dwellings, house type G - 2 no. 4 bed semi-detached dwellings. (e) provision of associated garden areas and in-curtilage works for each dwelling to include parking boundary fencing and boundary walls as required. (f) provision of residential communal open space areas to include all hard and soft landscape works within the site which includes public lighting, public seating, planting works, a children's play area and boundary treatments. (g) creation of a pedestrian access onto Dublin Road. (h) associated site works and attenuation systems as well as all ancillary site development/construction works to facilitate site drainage and foul networks for connection to the existing foul, storm and public water networks along with connection works to the ESB network. Significant Further Information relates to the submission of a road safety audit, a flood risk assessment and water protection plan.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19441
19 Jun 2019Refused
permission to retain operation of a car wash business and the erection of commercial signage. Significant Further Information relates to the unauthorised operation of a car wash business & the erection of commercial signage, the removal on an authorised mobile home, and all ancillary site works & site boundary treatments
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 19278
18 Jul 2018Conditional
permission for the construction of a new flat roof dormer window to the rear of the existing semi-detached dwelling house
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18337
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 Aghananimy.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghananimy.
Architectural heritage
- Latlorcan Cemetery, church/chapel, 1730–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding gable-fronted barn-style former Roman Catholic church, built 1790, but possibly incorporating church of 1732, with two-bay long sides to nave. Pitched slate roof, with angled terracotta ridge tiles, lead-flashed verges, replacement half-round metal gutters, and stone crosses to gable apexes. Roughcast walling with partly exposed squared-and-tooled sandstone rubble with squared quoins. Principal north gable rebuilt with coursed rock-faced sandstone over dressed plinth flanked by buttresses with off-setting extended from gable. Pointed-arch painted timber twelve-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, top-lights having intersecting glazing, with cement-rendered reveals, and sandstone sills. North gable apex ballistaria in dressed sandstone quatrefoil inset in splayed roundel. Pointed-arch entrance off-centre to east elevation, with replacement timber chevron-sheeted door having six-light tympanum with intersecting glazing. Set in graveyard back from road to north with saddleback-coped rubble boundary wall, having mild steel gates hinged to square posts. Numerous fine nineteenth-century gravestones, high crosses, statues, iron railings throughout, and single chest tomb in Soanesian style to north-west. Interior, currently undergoing restoration, has smooth rendered walls, some coursed rubble sandstone visible in places, some red brick relieving arches to window openings. Location of staircase and gallery to rear visible by markings to wall. Gauged-brick pointed-arch window openings. Pointed-arch recess with peck dressed limestone holy water font. Original battened pitch pine ceiling, with timber trusses supported on painted masonry stops. Dressed limestone paving to floor.
- Will Ville, house, 1710–1730 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c.1720, having single-storey single-bay extension to south-east gable elevation. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, render copings, red brick chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods, and timber eaves course. Harl-rendered walls, channelled render quoins to front (south-west) elevation. Square-headed window openings throughout, with raised render reveals, painted masonry sills, and timber sliding sash windows, front elevation having three-over-six-pane to first floor and six-over-six pane to ground floor, with exposed sash boxes, rear having one-over-one pane and bipartite one-over-one pane, and rear and south-east elevations having some replacement timber windows. Round-headed window opening to centre bay of first floor to front, with raised render reveal, painted masonry sill and fixed timber window. Round-headed panelled door, now boarded up, having spoked fanlight, set within smooth rendered rectangular panel. Rendered boundary walls to front, terminating in square-plan piers flanking single-leaf wrought-iron gate. Double-leaf wrought-iron gate flanked by square-plan rendered piers to south-west of house.
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 10 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; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2374 (ZIP).
- 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 Aghananimy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Aghananimy · Achadh an Anama
- Area
- 477,678 m² (47.77 ha, 118.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- Monaghan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Monaghan
- Electoral division
- Monaghan Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Monaghan Rural electoral division: 6,411 people in 2,320 households; 62% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghnasedagh, Drumhirk, Killygowan, Killyvane, Latlorcan, Tamlat
- Placenames
- Aghananimy 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.