Aghmakerr

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghmakerr, from 404 m² to 100,088 m² (10.01 ha, 24.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Aghmakerr 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.

• 24 Mar 2025Conditional

  permission to demolish an existing dwelling house, construct a new two storey dwelling house, waste water treatment system, alterations to an existing entrance onto public road and all associated works.

  Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 259004

• 12 Mar 2025Conditional

  permission will consist of a 1. The construction of a single storey agricultural machinery storage shed and 2. Relocation of Proposed Wastewater Treatment System & Percolation Area to serve two-storey dwelling house approved under Planning Reference No. 19/425 (currently under construction) to a revised location on site together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560101

• 30 Nov 2023Conditional

  permission to demolish existing derelict two storey dwelling and outbuildings and replace with a two storey style dwelling house, new sewerage wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new entrance onto laneway and all associated site development works, Significant Further Information received relates to, submission of Structural Report, Revised Elevational Changes and Revised site Boundaries

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2360296

• 26 Oct 2023N/a

  permission to demolish existing derelict two storey dwelling and outbuildings and replace with a two storey style dwelling house, new sewerage wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new entrance onto laneway and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2360255

• 12 May 2023Conditional

  permission for development consisting of erection of a two storey dwelling, treatment plant, percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2360068

• 6 Sept 2019Conditional

  permission to demolish an existing dwelling house, construct a new two storey dwelling house, waste water treatment system, alterations to an existing entrance onto public road and all associated works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19425

• 10 May 2019Conditional

  permission to construct a new two storey dwelling, single storey detached domestic garage and new wastewater treatment system together with all associated works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19216

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 Aghmakerr.

Recorded monuments

• MO024-032 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a rise towards the bottom of a S-facing slope and it overlooks a W-E section of a stream, which is c. 30m to the S. The stream flows from Lough Morne which is c. 250m to the NW. This is a circular overgrown area (diam. 32m E-W; 30.5m N-S) defined by a slight bank (at SW: Wth of base 3.2m; Wth of top 0.7m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 2.5m) that is largely reduced to a scarp with a stone-facing (at SW: H 1.2m) at its base and an outer drain. The original entrance (Wth of base 1.9m) at ESE is now closed by the stone-facing. 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 9 May 2018

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, church/chapel, 1835–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan Roman Catholic Church, built 1837 and enlarged 1886, having ashlar belfry to rear gable (south) and addition to south-east. Pitched slate roof having decorative ridge cresting, stone copings with cross gable finials, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted ruled-and-lined rendered walls set on painted rendered plinth. Pointed-arch window openings having painted stone block-and-start surrounds with stone sills and Y-traceried windows. Triple lancet window to front (north) gable having painted stone block-and-start surround with painted stone sill. Quatrefoil windows to east and west gables having painted stone surrounds. Pointed-arch door openings to front elevation having painted timber tongued-and-grooved double-leaf doors with overlights. Square-headed door opening to addition, having painted rendered surround and timber tongued-and-grooved door. Interior having painted rendered walls, stained-glass windows, exposed timber beam ceiling, timber galleries to east and west and timber pews. Series of granite steps leading to front of church. Building set within graveyard on elevated site. Square-plan coursed limestone piers having metal gates and coursed limestone walls to front boundary with hedgerow and mature trees to remaining boundaries.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aghmakerr.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Aghmakerr with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Aghmakerr · Achadh Mhic Céir

Area

1,045,379 m² (104.54 ha, 258.32 acres)

Civil parish

Aghnamullen, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Bellatrain, the unit of the census

Census 2022

272 people lived in 81 households in the Bellatrain electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boraghy, Cooltrimegish, Drumillard, Lattacrom, Lurgachamlough, Reduff, Tullynamalra, Ullinagh

Placenames

Aghmakerr 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.