Agall
Townland in the civil parish of Lynally, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly; in Irish Áth Gall
- Area
- 29.1 ha
- 72 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 17,577 m² (1.76 ha, 4.34 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Agall, from 1,055 m² to 42,828 m² (4.28 ha, 10.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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
No zone of a development plan covers Agall 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
23 May 2025Refused
for development at this site Agall Quarry, currently permitted under planning references ABP 19.SU.0131 and ABP 19.QD.008 which is located within the Townlands of Agall and Glaskill. The development will consist of further quarry development concerning an authorised quarry, registered as QY28, authorised under substitute consent ABP Ref. 19.SU.0131 and extended under ABP Ref. 19.QD.0008 to include: 1. Extension of the area of the quarry into known aggregate reserves by circa 6.96ha to a depth of 63mAOD. 2. Provision of boundary berms, planting and landscaping generally to the north-west of the proposed extension area together with security fencing; 3. Provision of an access route to the new extraction areas; 4. Re-commencement of quarrying works within circa 3.81ha of the lands subject to substitute consent under ABP Ref. 19.SU.0131 to a depth of 63mAOD, 2m deeper than existing quarry floors permitted under ABP Ref. 19.QD.0008; 5. Continuance of use of existing established pit infrastructure (including mobile processing plant, machinery, fixed plant and associated sheds, vehicular entrance, office/welfare facilities, stockpiling areas, water supply, carpark, wheel wash, haul routes and other ancillary infrastructure); 6. Phased restoration of the site; 7. All associated and ancillary works, including dry screening and short-term stockpiling of aggregates, over an application area of 17 ha; 8. A planning permission of 30 years is being sought for the completion of the proposed development. Accordingly, this permission also seeks to amend Condition 3 of ABP Ref. 19.QD.0008 to facilitate the continuation of use of established pit infrastructure for a period of 30 years from the date of any permission for the proposed development. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (‘EIAR’) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560191
16 May 2025N/a
The development will consist of further quarry development concerning an authorised quarry, registered as QY28, authorised under substitute consent ABP Ref. 19.SU.0131 and extended under ABP Ref. 19.QD.0008 to include: 1. Extension of the area of the quarry into known aggregate reserves by circa 7ha to a depth of 63mOD. 2. Provision of boundary berms, planting and landscaping generally to the north-west of the proposed extension area together with security fencing;...4. Re-commencement of quarrying works within circa 4ha of the lands subject to substitute consent under ABP Ref. 19.SU.0131 to a depth of 63mOD
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560178
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 Agall.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Agall.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Agall.
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 5 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1881 (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 Agall with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Agall · Áth Gall
- Area
- 291,445 m² (29.14 ha, 72.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lynally, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballycowan
- Electoral division
- Screggan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Screggan electoral division: 1,513 people in 479 households; 89% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Agall 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.