Aghnagross

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghnagross, from 3,140 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres) to 250,836 m² (25.08 ha, 61.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Aghnagross 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.

• 6 Apr 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW FARM BUILDING FOR THE HOUSING OF LIVESTOCK INCLUDING A SLATTED AREA OVER AN UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANK AND A SOLID FLOOR LIEBACK AREA, COMPLETED WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT IS WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF A PROTECTED STRUCTURE, ROCKFORD HOUSE, NUMBER 60-09, NIAH REFERENCE 14944001

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 23154

• 11 Sept 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF EXTENSIONS TO THE REAR AND SIDE OF DWELLING, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 18390

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 Aghnagross.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghnagross.

Architectural heritage

• Rockford House, farm house, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c.1830, with two-storey extension to rear. Set within its own grounds. Hipped slate roof with smooth rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Timber sash window with tooled stone sills. Square-headed door opening with glazed timber openwork outer door. Roughcast rendered outbuilding to rear site with pitched slate roof. New stone outbuilding with half-hipped slate roof. Channelled rendered walls and wrought-iron gates to road with wrought-iron gates.

• Bridge, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch masonry railway bridge, built c.1863, by the Great Southern and Western Railway Company on the Roscrea to Nenagh section. Rock-faced limestone blocks randomly laid with rusticated and margined quoins. Segmental arch-ring with rusticated voussoirs. Spandrels and parapets are of roughly faced blocks. Finely dressed string course.

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 10 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aghnagross.

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

Name

Aghnagross · Áth na gCros

Area

445,852 m² (44.59 ha, 110.17 acres)

Civil parish

Dunkerrin, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Barna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Barna electoral division: 170 people in 62 households; 84% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappakilleen (Co. Tipperary), Coldblow, Coolroe, Corraclevin, Croughil, Glasshouse

Placenames

Aghnagross 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.