Aghnananagh

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghnananagh, from 20 m² to 284,496 m² (28.45 ha, 70.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Aghnananagh 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 Jul 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW BUNGALOW DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PACKAGED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS TO COMPLETE THE DEVELOPMENT

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23324

• 27 Mar 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING, GARAGE, WASTER WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 23131

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 Aghnananagh.

Recorded monuments

• OF016-004001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Only the wall footings of the N, W and E walls survive with S wall best preserved. Late medieval tower house or fortifed house (ext. dims 9.3m N-S; 14.4m E-W; wall T 1.2m) built with roughly coursed limestone rubble with no evidence of a base batter situated on a slight rise in undulating countryside. The interior of the building consists of collapsed rubble which fills the interior of the castle. At gound floor level there is evidence of a narrow rectangular slit window in the centre of the E wall and two slit opes in the S wall. To the E of the castle are a group of outhouses which were built with cut-stone from the castle. The cornerstones of the outhouses display punch dressed stone with drafted margins. These stones are very similar to the inscribed stone in the Blue ball pub which is dated 1641 and has similar dressing. According to local information there was a medieval village (OF016-041002-), which was bulldozed several years ago, located to the SW of the castle (pers. comm. Vincent Cummins). Possibly a late 16th/early 17th-century fortified house with associated village. According to local information there was the ruins of a small building known locally as the 'old church' (OF016-004003-) located 100m to the SW of the castle, this building was levelled in the 1950s and only a low rise of ground indicates the site of the possible church today (pers. comm. Vincent Cummins). Approximately 180m SW of the castle a 14th century chalice known as the De Burgo chalice was discovered in the 1930s and this chalice is now stored in the National Museum of Ireland. 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

• OF016-004002 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  Only the wall footings of the N, W and E walls survive with S wall best preserved. Late medieval tower house (OF016-004001-) built with roughly coursed limestone rubble with no evidence of a base batter situated on a slight rise in undulating countryside. The interior of the building consists of collapsed vaulting which fills the interior to first floor level. At this level there is evidence of two narrow rectangular slit windows on the S and E walls. To the E are a group of outhouses which were built with cut-stone from the Tower house. The cornerstones of the outhouses display punch dressed stone with drafted margins. These stones are very similar to the inscribed stone in the Blue ball pub which is dated 1641 and has similar dressing. According to local information there was a medieval village, which was bulldozed several years ago, located to the SW of the Tower house (OF016-004001-). Possibly a late 16th/early 17th-century Tower house with associated village. 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

• OF016-004003 Church
  Description

  According to local information there was a medieval village (OF016-041002-), which was bulldozed in the 1970s, located to the SW of the castle (pers. comm. Vincent Cummins). According to local information there was the ruins of a small building known locally as the 'old church' (OF016-004003-) located 110m to the SW of the castle, this building was levelled in the 1950s and only a low rise of ground indicates the site of the possible church today (pers. comm. Vincent Cummins). Approximately 180m SW of the castle (OF014-004001-) a 14th century chalice known as the De Burgo chalice was discovered in the 1930s and this chalice is now stored in the National Museum of Ireland.

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse, built c.1800, with direct-entry plan. Formerly had attic over east end and has extension to rear with rendered walls and pitched slate roof. Pitched rye straw roof with decorative scolloping to slightly raised ridge and chimney. Low rendered chimneystack. Rendered stone walls. Timber sash windows. Porch with pitched slate roof with timber door. Outbuilding attached to east gable with roofless lean-to roof and stone walls. Yard to front of house and stone wall with rendered piers to road boundary. Single- and two-storey outbuildings to one side of yard having pitched corrugated-iron roofs and rendered walls.

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1878 (ZIP).

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

Name

Aghnananagh · Achadh na nEanach

Area

1,625,008 m² (162.5 ha, 401.55 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbride, and its townlands

Barony

Ballycowan

Electoral division

Silverbrook, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Silverbrook electoral division: 822 people in 266 households; 87% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghalusky, Aharney, Ballynasrah, Coolnahely, Derries, Derrynanagh, Doory

Placenames

Aghnananagh 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.