Aghnamullen
Aghnamullen is a townland in the civil parish of Aghnamullen, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Achadh na Muileann.
- Area
- 70.1 ha
- 173 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 21,805 m² (2.18 ha, 5.39 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghnamullen, from 243 m² to 72,494 m² (7.25 ha, 17.91 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Aghnamullen 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
5 Sept 2024Conditional
permission to retain two storey extension to the rear of existing two storey dwelling, elevational changes to existing dwelling, septic tank, percolation area, existing entrance and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2460330
8 Jul 2024Conditional
permission to a) retain on a temporary basis, the placement of a habitable mobile home; b) substitute said mobile home for alternative temporary living accommodation; & c) change house plans/design as previously granted under planning application ref: 19/375
Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 249015
28 Jun 2023Conditional
permission to a) retain on a temporary basis, the placement of a habitable mobile home; b) substitute said mobile home for alternative temporary living accommodation; & c) change house plans/design as previously granted under planning application ref: 19/375
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2360129
30 May 2023N/a
permission to; a) retain on a temporary basis, the placement of a habitable mobile home & b) change house plans/design as previously granted under planning application ref: 19/375. Site address is Tamlat, Latton, Co. Monaghan.
Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2360089
30 Apr 2023N/a
permission to; a) retain on a temporary basis, the placement of a habitable mobile home & b) change house plans/design as previously granted under planning application ref: 19/375
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2360061
16 Jun 2021Conditional
Permission to construct a two storey dwelling, with detached domestic garage & new site entrance, incorporating proprietary waste water treatment system & other associated ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21357
4 Jun 2021Conditional
permission to make alterations to existing planning permission (planning reference 19/375) to demolish existing single storey dwelling house and construct a new replacement bungalow style dwelling house with detached domestic garage, propose new domestic waste water treatment system and make use of existing domestic entrance together with all ancillary site works.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21330
13 Aug 2019Conditional
permission to demolish existing single storey dwelling house and construct a new replacement bungalow style dwelling house with detached domestic garage, connect to existing septic tank, and make use of existing domestic entrance together with all ancillary site works. Significant Further Information relates to the existing septic tank is now to be replaced with a proposed New Waste Water Treatment System.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19375
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 Aghnamullen.
Recorded monuments
- MO023-012 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a N-facing slope. This is an oval grass and scrub-covered area (dims 40m NW-SE; 30m NE-XW) defined by an earthen bank and hedge that is largely reduced to a scarp (at N: H 1.5m) S-N-E and melds into the ground elsewhere. There is no visible fosse and there is a wide entrance (Wth of base 4m) at 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 19 June 2018
Architectural heritage
- Tyndale House, house, 1880–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1885, having later full-height gabled return projecting forward of north end of front (east) elevation, and recent single-storey extension to rear. Pitched slate roof, with paired red brick chimneystacks, having yellow brick band to cap, and with projecting rendered chimneystack to gable of return. Roughcast rendered walls, render removed from front elevation exposing rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows and tooled stone sills. Square-headed door opening having timber panelled door, over-light and tooled stone plinth blocks. Set in own grounds, with recent timber gates and fences.
- Aghnamullen Orange Hall, Orange Hall, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey former Orange hall with attic, dated 1886, having gablet to front (east) elevation. Now in use as house. Pitched slate roof with exposed rafter ends, timber corbelled eaves and carved timber finial to gablet, carved timber bargeboards to gables. Ceramic stove-pot to roof ridge. Render removed exposing rubble limestone walls. Round date stone inscribed: "AUGHNAMULLEN [sic] ORANGE HALL A.D. 1886". Square-headed window openings, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with tooled stone sills. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door. Set in own grounds, having garden to front with wrought-iron pedestrian gate flanked by rendered piers, rendered boundary walls. Yard to south, having wrought-iron farm gate, rubble stone pier, and rubble stone boundary 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
- At the centre of the townland of Aghnamullen, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Aghnamullen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Aghnamullen · Achadh na Muileann
- Area
- 701,148 m² (70.11 ha, 173.26 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghnamullen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cremorne
- Electoral division
- Anny, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 391 people lived in 125 households in the Anny electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Corkeeran, Derryroosk, Drumhillagh, Edenbrone, Moyle More, Mullanary Glebe, Tamlat
- Placenames
- Aghnamullen 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.