Aghancarnan

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghancarnan, from 69 m² to 165,852 m² (16.59 ha, 40.98 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Aghancarnan 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.

• 12 May 2026N/a

  the construction of an extension to the side/ northeast of the existing workshop to provide for additional storage and all associated site development works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660263

• 12 Dec 2022Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING OUTBUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY GRANNY FLAT EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING HOUSE AND PERMISSION FOR ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22638

• 1 Feb 2019Refused

  TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE WITH PACKAGED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 1940

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Aghancarnan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghancarnan.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Columba's Church (Durrow), church/chapel, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached cruciform former Church of Ireland church, built in 1881, with entrance porch to south-east. Pitched slate roof with limestone ridge cresting, spired limestone bellcote to south-west, roof vent, wrought-iron finials and limestone dentils to eaves course. Rock-faced limestone walls with tooled quoins and buttresses. Three-light lancet windows with tooled limestone surrounds and stained glass. Recessed pointed-arched doorway with tooled limestone surround to double timber battened door. Set within its own grounds. Front of site bounded by random coursed limestone wall with dog tooth capping and blocked gate piers with cast-iron gates.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1965 (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.

No address of the register names Aghancarnan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Aghancarnan · Achadh an Charnáin

Area

765,220 m² (76.52 ha, 189.09 acres)

Civil parish

Durrow, and its townlands

Barony

Ballycowan

Electoral division

Durrow, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Durrow electoral division: 798 people in 254 households; 92% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Acantha, Balleek, Balleek Beg, Ballybought, Durrow Demesne, Gormagh

Placenames

Aghancarnan 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.