Aghancon

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghancon, from 198 m² to 329,392 m² (32.94 ha, 81.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Aghancon 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.

• 3 Sept 2026N/a

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A LIVESTOCK SHED, A STORAGE SHED AND A WALLED SILAGE BASE & APRON, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660472

• 31 Aug 2022Conditional

  A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22453

• 2 Apr 2020Conditional

  1) THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL STRUCTURE, TO INCLUDE MILKING PARLOUR, DAIRY, HANDLING YARD AND ANCILLARY ACCOMODATION, 2) THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ENTRANCE AND ACCESS ROAD THERETO AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 20120

• 21 Jul 2017Conditional

  THE ERECTION OF AGRICULTURAL STRUCTURES, TO INCLUDE 1)LIVESTOCK SHED, 2) UNCOVERED YARD WITH UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT STORAGE TANK, 3) OVERGROUND EFFLUENT STORE WITH RECEPTION TANK, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 17267

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 Aghancon.

Recorded monuments

• OF039-039 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. According to local information site was levelled in the 1950's. Depicted on 1912 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular 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

• OF039-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on top of high ground in upland area. Circular area (30m N-S) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1m) with external fosse (Wth 2m; ext. D 0.5m) with causewayed entrance at NE. Entrance impossible to measure due to dense overgrowth. 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 Aghancon.

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 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 Aghancon.

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 Aghancon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Aghancon · Achadh Cinn Chon

Area

1,157,340 m² (115.73 ha, 285.98 acres)

Civil parish

Aghancon, and its townlands

Barony

Ballybritt

Electoral division

Aghancon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Aghancon electoral division: 371 people in 144 households; 89% of households own their home; 17% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycurragh, Glebe, Knockarley, Leap, Marymount, Roscomroe, Tullaroe

Placenames

Aghancon 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.