Aghalusky
Townland in the civil parish of Rahan, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly; in Irish Achadh Loiscthe
- Area
- 87.9 ha
- 217 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 12,069 m² (1.21 ha, 2.98 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghalusky, from 99 m² to 241,813 m² (24.18 ha, 59.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Aghalusky 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 Jun 2026N/a
for works carried out to date, including the partial demolition of the original farmhouse and the reconstruction and alteration of the dwelling on the existing footprint, including amendments to the roof profile and external elevations, together with retention of all associated works to the remaining structure. Planning permission is also sought to complete the dwelling and to carry out all associated site development works
Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660296
8 May 2026N/a
the construction of a new dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system, domestic well, stormwater soakaways, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660257
13 Mar 2026N/a
for existing refurbished dwelling house as constructed and planning permission to complete same and all associated site development works
Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660124
12 Apr 2024Conditional
(A) 1 NO. NEW BUNGALOW TYPE DWELLING, (B) 1 NO. NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE, (C) INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, (D) VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, (E) NEW LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2440
30 May 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DETACHED DORMER STYLE DWELLING HOUSE, NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, DRIVEWAY, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA, STORM WATER SOAKAWAYS, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22272
21 May 2018Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW 3 BEDROOM DETACHED DORMER DWELLING HOUSE, SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES INCLUDING ACCESS ONTO THE EXISTING ROADWAY
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18220
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyduff Esker 000885
Recorded monuments
- OF016-007 Enclosure
Description
No surface trace visible of any enclosure. Aerial photographs (GSI, N 533/4) shows faint outline of potential enclosure. 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 Aghalusky.
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_1879 (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 Aghalusky with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Aghalusky · Achadh Loiscthe
- Area
- 878,857 m² (87.89 ha, 217.17 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rahan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballycowan
- Electoral division
- Rahan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rahan electoral division: 753 people in 243 households; 88% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghnananagh, Backsteel, Ballykeenaghan, Ballynasrah, Derrynanagh, Murragh, Tullymorerahan
- Placenames
- Aghalusky 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.