# Aghancarnan, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Durrow, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly; in Irish Achadh an Charnáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 765,220 m² (76.52 ha, 189.09 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 13,346 m² (1.33 ha, 3.3 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Durrow, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/durrow.md - Barony: Ballycowan - Electoral division: Durrow, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 798 people lived in 254 households in the Durrow electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/42031 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180015 - Centre: latitude 53.319546, longitude -7.504448 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghancarnan, from 69 m² to 165,852 m² (16.59 ha, 40.98 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4984467: 165,852 m² (16.59 ha, 40.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4984467.md - Parcel 287105: 88,207 m² (8.82 ha, 21.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/287105.md - Parcel 5957554: 83,342 m² (8.33 ha, 20.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5957554.md - Parcel 268839: 70,813 m² (7.08 ha, 17.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268839.md - Parcel 299302: 68,006 m² (6.8 ha, 16.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299302.md - Parcel 300114: 63,084 m² (6.31 ha, 15.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300114.md - Parcel 293576: 57,941 m² (5.79 ha, 14.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293576.md - Parcel 288933: 41,701 m² (4.17 ha, 10.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288933.md - Parcel 5421480: 40,631 m² (4.06 ha, 10.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5421480.md - Parcel 314451: 29,283 m² (2.93 ha, 7.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314451.md - Parcel 284154: 19,510 m² (1.95 ha, 4.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284154.md - Parcel 305884: 7,181 m² (0.72 ha, 1.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/305884.md - Parcel 298377: 5,047 m² (0.5 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298377.md - Parcel 307398: 2,882 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307398.md - Parcel 4985457: 2,279 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4985457.md - Parcel 287415: 2,219 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/287415.md - Parcel 312706: 2,145 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312706.md - Parcel 5421460: 2,013 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5421460.md - Parcel 2476954: 1,421 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2476954.md - Parcel 273684: 106 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/273684.md - Parcel 305305: 98 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/305305.md - Parcel 304937: 69 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/304937.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 12 May 2026, Offaly County Council 2660263: N/a. Permission. the construction of an extension to the side/ northeast of the existing workshop to provide for additional storage and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660263/0 - 12 Dec 2022, Offaly County Council 22638: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22638/0 - 1 Feb 2019, Offaly County Council 1940: Refused. Permission, 1 home. TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE WITH PACKAGED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/1940/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Aghancarnan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghancarnan. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Saint Columba's Church (Durrow), church/chapel, 1860–1900, Regional interest, registry number 14909005, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14909005. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Aghancarnan, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1965, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1965.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/offaly/aghancarnan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/aghancarnan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/aghancarnan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Aghancarnan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Acantha: https://everytownland.com/offaly/acantha.md - Balleek: https://everytownland.com/offaly/balleek.md - Balleek Beg: https://everytownland.com/offaly/balleek-beg.md - Ballybought: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballybought.md - Durrow Demesne: https://everytownland.com/offaly/durrow-demesne.md - Gormagh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/gormagh.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/offaly/aghancarnan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/aghancarnan