Aghancon
Townland in the civil parish of Aghancon, barony of Ballybritt, Co. Offaly; in Irish Achadh Cinn Chon
Parcel 296605
- Area
- 2,253 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it, 173 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Aghancon
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 3 recorded monuments.
- OF039-036 Graveyard
Description
Situated on W facing slope of a ridge of high ground running N-S. Large irregular shaped graveyard which appears to have recently been cleaned up. This resulted in all the large recumbent headstones being removed from their original position and erected against the enclosing graveyard wall. Most of these sandstone slabs are of 18th-century date. There is a limestone table-tomb (OF039-036002-) dating to 1648 which belongs to the Darby family with their coat of arms on top. This grave is located at the W end of the S wall of the 19th-century parish church which is located in the N sector of the graveyard. 19th century C of I church may have been built on the site of a medieval church (OF039-036001-). (Cooke 1875, 220) 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/revision: 15 December 2011
- OF039-036001 Church
Description
Situated on W facing slope of a ridge of high ground running N-S. Large irregular shaped graveyard (OF039-036----) which appears to have recently been cleaned up. This resulted in all the large recumbent headstones being removed from their original position and erected against the enclosing graveyard wall. Most of these sandstone slabs are of 18th-century date. There is a limestone table-tomb (OF039-036002-) dating to 1648 which belongs to the Darby family with their Coat of arms on top. This grave is located at the W end of the S wall of the 19th-century parish church which is located in the N sector of the graveyard. 19th century C of I church may have been built on the site of a medieval church. (Cooke 1875, 220) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload/revision: 15 December 2011
- OF039-036002 Tomb - table tomb
Description
Situated on W facing slope of a ridge of high ground running N-S. Large irregular shaped graveyard (OF039-036----) which appears to have recently been cleaned up. This resulted in all the large recumbent headstones being removed from their original position and erected against the enclosing graveyard wall. Most of these sandstone slabs are of 18th-century date. There is a limestone table-tomb (OF039-036002-) dating to 1648 which belongs to the Darby family with their coat of arms on top. This grave is located at the W end of the S wall of the 19th-century parish church which is located in the N sector of the graveyard. 19th century C of I church may have been built on the site of a medieval church (OF039-036001-) (Cooke 1875, 220). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload/revision: 15 December 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- 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 this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 115.7 ha
- 286 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 11,107 m² (1.11 ha, 2.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghancon, from 198 m² to 329,392 m² (32.94 ha, 81.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Aghancon 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Sept 2026N/a
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A LIVESTOCK SHED, A STORAGE SHED AND A WALLED SILAGE BASE & APRON, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660472
31 Aug 2022Conditional
A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22453
2 Apr 2020Conditional
1) THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL STRUCTURE, TO INCLUDE MILKING PARLOUR, DAIRY, HANDLING YARD AND ANCILLARY ACCOMODATION, 2) THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ENTRANCE AND ACCESS ROAD THERETO AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 20120
21 Jul 2017Conditional
THE ERECTION OF AGRICULTURAL STRUCTURES, TO INCLUDE 1)LIVESTOCK SHED, 2) UNCOVERED YARD WITH UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT STORAGE TANK, 3) OVERGROUND EFFLUENT STORE WITH RECEPTION TANK, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 17267
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Aghancon.
Recorded monuments
- OF039-039 Enclosure
Description
Not visible at ground level. According to local information site was levelled in the 1950's. Depicted on 1912 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure. 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
- OF039-040 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on top of high ground in upland area. Circular area (30m N-S) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1m) with external fosse (Wth 2m; ext. D 0.5m) with causewayed entrance at NE. Entrance impossible to measure due to dense overgrowth. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghancon.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Aghancon.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Aghancon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Aghancon · Achadh Cinn Chon
- Area
- 1,157,340 m² (115.73 ha, 285.98 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghancon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballybritt
- Electoral division
- Aghancon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Aghancon electoral division: 371 people in 144 households; 89% of households own their home; 17% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycurragh, Glebe, Knockarley, Leap, Marymount, Roscomroe, Tullaroe
- Placenames
- Aghancon 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.