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Aghaboy

Townland in the civil parish of Wheery Or Killagally, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly; in Irish Achadh Buí

Area
37.6 ha
93 acres
Land parcels
39
registered freehold, median 1,824 m²
Zoning
R2
Existing Residential
Planning
26
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

1313 m across. Click a parcel to see it. © Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghaboy, from 75 m² to 76,639 m² (7.66 ha, 18.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

Planning applications

Sites that touch the townland, newest first

The 25 most recent of 26 applications.

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 Aghaboy.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghaboy.

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
Landslides
Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
Terrain model
No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aghaboy.
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 Aghaboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

The townland

Name
Aghaboy · Achadh Buí
Area
376,101 m² (37.61 ha, 92.94 acres)
Civil parish
Wheery Or Killagally, and its townlands
Barony
Garrycastle
Electoral division
Ferbane, the unit of the census
Census 2022
Ferbane electoral division: 1,281 people in 484 households; 83% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Ballylin, Ballyvlin, Ballyvora, Ferbane, Gallen, Glebe, Kincora, Vicarstown
Placenames
Aghaboy 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.