Aghlattacru

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghlattacru, from 2,438 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres) to 280,469 m² (28.05 ha, 69.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Aghlattacru 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.

• 28 Sept 2025Conditional

  permission will consist of: (i) construction of new single-storey side and front extensions, (ii) replacement of the existing pitched roofs, (iii) modifications to the external facades, including the installation of external insulation, and (iv) all associated alterations, demolitions, site works, and ancillary works necessary to facilitate the development of an existing dwelling house (Previous Planning Ref. Nos. 443/78) Significant Further Information received relates to submitted revised site layout plan

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560391

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 Aghlattacru.

Recorded monuments

• MO031-089 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the E-facing slope of a slight NNW-SSE ridge. This is a broad subcircular, grass and scrub-covered area with rock outcrop (int. dims 44m NW-SE; 38m NE-SW) that slopes down to the NE, which is defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 4.2-6m; Wth of top 2.2-2.5m; int. H 0.2-0.8m; ext. H 0.5m at NW to 1.5m at SE) with traces of internal stone-facing. There is no visible fosse, but an entrance (Wth of base 2.2) at N might be original. 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: 31 July 2017

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghlattacru.

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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2639 (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.

No address of the register names Aghlattacru with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Aghlattacru · Achadh Leachta Chraobha

Area

497,173 m² (49.72 ha, 122.85 acres)

Civil parish

Magheracloone, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Lough Fea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lough Fea electoral division: 686 people in 234 households; 88% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyloughan, Cortober, Killygally, Mokeeran, Nure Beg

Placenames

Aghlattacru 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.