# Aghnananagh, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilbride, barony of Ballycowan, Co. Offaly; in Irish Achadh na nEanach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,625,008 m² (162.5 ha, 401.55 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,519 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilbride, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/kilbride.md - Barony: Ballycowan - Electoral division: Silverbrook, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 822 people lived in 266 households in the Silverbrook electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 7% 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/42275 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180020 - Centre: latitude 53.303473, longitude -7.589425 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghnananagh, from 20 m² to 284,496 m² (28.45 ha, 70.3 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 308305: 284,496 m² (28.45 ha, 70.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308305.md - Parcel 308081: 166,429 m² (16.64 ha, 41.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308081.md - Parcel 308221: 158,672 m² (15.87 ha, 39.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308221.md - Parcel 300081: 133,798 m² (13.38 ha, 33.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300081.md - Parcel 309661: 127,504 m² (12.75 ha, 31.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309661.md - Parcel 308045: 111,330 m² (11.13 ha, 27.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308045.md - Parcel 309659: 105,264 m² (10.53 ha, 26.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309659.md - Parcel 2474283: 94,809 m² (9.48 ha, 23.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2474283.md - Parcel 309660: 92,514 m² (9.25 ha, 22.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309660.md - Parcel 309656: 66,161 m² (6.62 ha, 16.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309656.md - Parcel 309540: 60,725 m² (6.07 ha, 15.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309540.md - Parcel 2474181: 41,415 m² (4.14 ha, 10.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2474181.md - Parcel 312779: 39,828 m² (3.98 ha, 9.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312779.md - Parcel 2474977: 34,943 m² (3.49 ha, 8.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2474977.md - Parcel 309663: 21,103 m² (2.11 ha, 5.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309663.md - Parcel 5976164: 20,713 m² (2.07 ha, 5.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5976164.md - Parcel 272585: 9,628 m² (0.96 ha, 2.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272585.md - Parcel 288884: 6,723 m² (0.67 ha, 1.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/288884.md - Parcel 2474003: 5,421 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2474003.md - Parcel 302351: 4,947 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302351.md - Parcel 303495: 4,362 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303495.md - Parcel 5976201: 3,705 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5976201.md - Parcel 2476319: 3,519 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2476319.md - Parcel 5127386: 3,149 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5127386.md - Parcel 359743: 3,072 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/359743.md - Parcel 309539: 2,860 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309539.md - Parcel 6052007: 2,641 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6052007.md - Parcel 300022: 2,349 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300022.md - Parcel 6014480: 2,246 m² (0.22 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6014480.md - Parcel 282508: 1,897 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/282508.md - Parcel 307274: 1,672 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/307274.md - Parcel 284190: 1,625 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/284190.md - Parcel 4903045: 1,125 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4903045.md - Parcel 5066903: 902 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5066903.md - Parcel 305118: 880 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/305118.md - Parcel 311262: 859 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/311262.md - Parcel 302875: 457 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/302875.md - Parcel 273442: 233 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/273442.md - Parcel 314472: 207 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/314472.md - Parcel 306581: 187 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/306581.md - Parcel 4659373: 157 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4659373.md - Parcel 5066905: 120 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5066905.md - Parcel 5066902: 41 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5066902.md - Parcel 271077: 41 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/271077.md - Parcel 299407: 20 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/299407.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 6 Jul 2023, Offaly County Council 23324: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/23324/0 - 27 Mar 2023, Offaly County Council 23131: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING, GARAGE, WASTER WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/23131/0 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 Aghnananagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - OF016-004001: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF016-004001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF016-004002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF016-004003-. 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. 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) - Farm house, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 14916025, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF®no=14916025. 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. ## 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 Aghnananagh, 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1878, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1878.zip (ZIP). - 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/aghnananagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/aghnananagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/aghnananagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Aghnananagh 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) - Aghalusky: https://everytownland.com/offaly/aghalusky.md - Aharney: https://everytownland.com/offaly/aharney.md - Ballynasrah: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballynasrah-180195.md - Coolnahely: https://everytownland.com/offaly/coolnahely.md - Derries: https://everytownland.com/offaly/derries-180566.md - Derrynanagh: https://everytownland.com/offaly/derrynanagh.md - Doory: https://everytownland.com/offaly/doory.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/aghnananagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/offaly/aghnananagh