Aghafin

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghafin, from 272 m² to 149,596 m² (14.96 ha, 36.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Aghafin 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.

• 1 Sept 2026N/a

  construct extensions, alterations and carry out demolitions to existing dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660591

• 5 Nov 2024Conditional

  erect a 24m lattice telecommunications support structure on a 1.2 metre high raised foundation (providing an overall height of 25.2 metres) together with associated antennas and dishes and to remove the existing 15 metre lattice telecommunications structure with antennas (providing an overall height of 16.6 metres). The proposed development is all enclosed within an existing compound.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2460665

• 18 Aug 2021Refused

  sub-divide existing site and construct new dwelling, waste water treatment system with polishing filter, new site entrance and all associated works

  Outline permission · Laois County Council, 21582

• 28 Jul 2021N/a

  sub-division of existing site and construction of a new dwelling, waste water treatment system with polishing filter, new site entrance and all associated works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21535

• 29 Mar 2018Conditional

  construct the following , A new agricultural entrance to my lands along with all ancillary services and associated works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 18193

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 Aghafin.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghafin.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Aghafin, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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 Aghafin.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Aghafin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Aghafin · Achadh Fionn

Area

759,642 m² (75.96 ha, 187.71 acres)

Civil parish

Offerlane, and its townlands

Barony

Upperwoods

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

835 people lived in 287 households in the Castletown electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bohernaghty, Churchtown, Knockacoller, Newtown, Rush Hall

Placenames

Aghafin 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.