# Aghnagross, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Dunkerrin, barony of Clonlisk, Co. Offaly; in Irish Áth na gCros. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 445,852 m² (44.59 ha, 110.17 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 92,267 m² (9.23 ha, 22.8 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Dunkerrin, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/dunkerrin.md - Barony: Clonlisk - Electoral division: Barna, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 170 people lived in 62 households in the Barna electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41769 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180019 - Centre: latitude 52.949723, longitude -7.965341 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 271674: 250,836 m² (25.08 ha, 61.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271674.md - Parcel 307417: 152,783 m² (15.28 ha, 37.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307417.md - Parcel 301751: 31,751 m² (3.18 ha, 7.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301751.md - Parcel 4904985: 3,140 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4904985.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 6 Apr 2023, Offaly County Council 23154: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/23154/0 - 11 Sept 2018, Offaly County Council 18390: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF EXTENSIONS TO THE REAR AND SIDE OF DWELLING, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/18390/0 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 Aghnagross. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghnagross. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Rockford House, farm house, 1810–1850, Regional interest, registry number 14944001, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14944001. 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, registry number 14944002, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14944002. 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. ## 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 Aghnagross, about 1 in 10 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: 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, 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/aghnagross.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/aghnagross.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/aghnagross.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Aghnagross 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) - Cappakilleen (Co. Tipperary): https://everytownland.com/tipperary/cappakilleen.md - Coldblow: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coldblow-180458.md - Coolroe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coolroe-180490.md - Corraclevin: https://everytownland.com/offaly/corraclevin.md - Croughil: https://everytownland.com/offaly/croughil.md - Glasshouse: https://everytownland.com/offaly/glasshouse-180699.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/aghnagross - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/aghnagross