# Aghancon, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Aghancon, barony of Ballybritt, Co. Offaly; in Irish Achadh Cinn Chon.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,157,340 m² (115.73 ha, 285.98 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 11,107 m² (1.11 ha, 2.74 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Aghancon, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/aghancon.md
- Barony: Ballybritt
- Electoral division: Aghancon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 371 people lived in 144 households in the Aghancon electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 17% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41733
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180016
- Centre: latitude 53.036405, longitude -7.779207 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghancon, from 198 m² to 329,392 m² (32.94 ha, 81.39 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 2388274: 329,392 m² (32.94 ha, 81.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388274.md
- Parcel 274986: 293,156 m² (29.32 ha, 72.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274986.md
- Parcel 278999: 211,679 m² (21.17 ha, 52.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278999.md
- Parcel 277753: 74,372 m² (7.44 ha, 18.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277753.md
- Parcel 310310: 64,829 m² (6.48 ha, 16.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/310310.md
- Parcel 2388189: 62,134 m² (6.21 ha, 15.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388189.md
- Parcel 2388460: 26,371 m² (2.64 ha, 6.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388460.md
- Parcel 2388190: 15,688 m² (1.57 ha, 3.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388190.md
- Parcel 277174: 14,636 m² (1.46 ha, 3.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277174.md
- Parcel 2388304: 13,045 m² (1.3 ha, 3.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388304.md
- Parcel 291793: 9,170 m² (0.92 ha, 2.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291793.md
- Parcel 5226937: 8,502 m² (0.85 ha, 2.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5226937.md
- Parcel 293197: 7,384 m² (0.74 ha, 1.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293197.md
- Parcel 5226933: 6,651 m² (0.67 ha, 1.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5226933.md
- Parcel 2388275: 5,918 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388275.md
- Parcel 296705: 4,858 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296705.md
- Parcel 5883192: 4,071 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5883192.md
- Parcel 274256: 2,312 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274256.md
- Parcel 296605: 2,253 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/296605.md
- Parcel 4663524: 198 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4663524.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

4 applications, newest first.

- 3 Sept 2026, Offaly County Council 2660472: N/a. Permission. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A LIVESTOCK SHED, A STORAGE SHED AND A WALLED SILAGE BASE & APRON, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660472/0
- 31 Aug 2022, Offaly County Council 22453: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/22453/0
- 2 Apr 2020, Offaly County Council 20120: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20120/0
- 21 Jul 2017, Offaly County Council 17267: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/17267/0

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## 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 Aghancon.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- OF039-039: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF039-039----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF039-040----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghancon.

## 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 Aghancon, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- 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, 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/aghancon.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/aghancon.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/aghancon.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Aghancon 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)

- Ballycurragh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballycurragh.md
- Glebe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/glebe-180701.md
- Knockarley: https://everytownland.com/offaly/knockarley.md
- Leap: https://everytownland.com/offaly/leap.md
- Marymount: https://everytownland.com/offaly/marymount.md
- Roscomroe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/roscomroe.md
- Tullaroe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/tullaroe.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.

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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/aghancon
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/aghancon