Aghagurty
Townland in the civil parish of Seirkieran, barony of Ballybritt, Co. Offaly; in Irish Áth an Ghorta
- Area
- 152.7 ha
- 377 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 8,824 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghagurty, from 431 m² to 262,349 m² (26.23 ha, 64.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Aghagurty 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
3 Oct 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING LIVESTOCK HOUSING UNIT, INSTALL AN UNDERGROUND SLATTED SLURRY HOLDING TANK, CONSTRUCTION OF A SEPARATE EXTENSION TO EXISTING MILKING PARLOR AND EXTEND EXISTING SILAGE SLAB WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 18424
4 Jul 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING LIVESTOCK HOUSING UNIT CONTAINING TWO SIDE BY SIDE UNDERGROUND SLURRY HOLDING TANKS, FEEDING PASSAGES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18289
13 Jun 2018N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING LIVESTOCK HOUSING UNIT CONTAINING TWO SIDE BY SIDE UNDERGROUND SLURRY HOLDING TANKS, FEEDING PASSAGES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 18244
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 Aghagurty.
Recorded monuments
- OF039-008 Standing stone
Description
Not visible at ground level. Marked on 1840 edition of OS 6-inch map as' Large Stone'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghagurty.
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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aghagurty.
- 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 Aghagurty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Aghagurty · Áth an Ghorta
- Area
- 1,527,106 m² (152.71 ha, 377.36 acres)
- Civil parish
- Seirkieran, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballybritt
- Electoral division
- Seirkieran, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Seirkieran electoral division: 497 people in 163 households; 91% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymacmurragh, Clonlee, Derrybeg, Derrykeel, Longford, Longford Big, Longford Little, Newtown
- Placenames
- Aghagurty 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.