# Aghavilla, Co. Monaghan: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmoyne, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Achadh an Bhile. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 471,290 m² (47.13 ha, 116.46 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 12,437 m² (1.24 ha, 3.07 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donaghmoyne, https://everytownland.com/monaghan/parish/donaghmoyne.md - Barony: Farney - Electoral division: Donaghmoyne, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 704 people lived in 229 households in the Donaghmoyne electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% 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/39382 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 170040 - Centre: latitude 54.000103, longitude -6.711898 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghavilla, from 216 m² to 197,207 m² (19.72 ha, 48.73 acres); 26 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 333001: 197,207 m² (19.72 ha, 48.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/333001.md - Parcel 320359: 58,116 m² (5.81 ha, 14.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/320359.md - Parcel 326355: 30,509 m² (3.05 ha, 7.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/326355.md - Parcel 3996405: 23,516 m² (2.35 ha, 5.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3996405.md - Parcel 351335: 22,755 m² (2.28 ha, 5.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/351335.md - Parcel 350726: 21,754 m² (2.18 ha, 5.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/350726.md - Parcel 321070: 18,417 m² (1.84 ha, 4.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/321070.md - Parcel 353967: 18,216 m² (1.82 ha, 4.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/353967.md - Parcel 347176: 18,203 m² (1.82 ha, 4.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/347176.md - Parcel 344370: 16,100 m² (1.61 ha, 3.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/344370.md - Parcel 352177: 15,189 m² (1.52 ha, 3.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/352177.md - Parcel 317669: 9,684 m² (0.97 ha, 2.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/317669.md - Parcel 322345: 4,424 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/322345.md - Parcel 354648: 3,844 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/354648.md - Parcel 351618: 3,759 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/351618.md - Parcel 332539: 2,330 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/332539.md - Parcel 333980: 2,228 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/333980.md - Parcel 334953: 1,993 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/334953.md - Parcel 315005: 1,775 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/315005.md - Parcel 4849597: 750 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4849597.md - Parcel 321635: 470 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/321635.md - Parcel 349766: 216 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/349766.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Aghavilla 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 23 Nov 2022, Monaghan County Council 22492: Conditional. Retention. permission to retain 1. Dwelling as constructed, previous planning reference 86/290, 2. Dormer windows as constructed, previous planning reference 95/43, 3. Rear extensions to dwelling. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/22492/0 - 24 Jul 2019, Monaghan County Council 19346: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. permission for a development consisting of and will consist of: retention of alterations to existing dormer residence incorporating raised roof height, revisions to first floor layout, alterations and additions to elevations, retention of domestic garage and all ancillary site works; and permission for single storey domestic store and all ancillary site works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MonaghanCC/AppFileRefDetails/19346/0 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 Aghavilla. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MO028-114: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO028-114----. Situated on a level low-lying landscape. It is described as 'Tober Lasair' in gothic script on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. It survives as a natural spring surrounded by stones with the foundations of a small structure (dims c. 1m square) immediately to the W. St. Lasair was a female saint about whom little is known but whose pattern was held on 18th of April (Ó Riain 2011, 392). In the folk tradition Lasair has become masculine. Pilgrimages were still taking place here on the first Sundays of May and August in 1937 (IFC Schools MSS 931, 7-8, 11, 373), for which see this web-page accessed on 11/12/2017: https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4758584/4756632 The well is no longer in use. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of revised upload: 11 December 2017 - MO031-014: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMO031-014----. Located at the crest of the SW-facing slope of a broad NW-SE drumlin ridge. An embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) is depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture. Rath (MO031-015----) is c. 220m to the SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 28 July 2017 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghavilla. ## 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 Aghavilla, 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 low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2665, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2665.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/aghavilla.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/aghavilla.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/aghavilla.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Aghavilla 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) - Creevy (Swinburn): https://everytownland.com/monaghan/creevy-swinburn.md - Donaghmoyne: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/donaghmoyne.md - Killabrick: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/killabrick.md - Lisgall: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/lisgall-171350.md - Longfield Etra: https://everytownland.com/monaghan/longfield-etra.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/aghavilla - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/monaghan/aghavilla