Aghamore
Aghamore is a townland in the civil parish of Croghan, barony of Philipstown Lower, Co. Offaly. Its name in Irish is An tÁth Mór.
Parcel 302802
- Area
- 147 m²
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Aghamore
Planning applications on this parcel
24 Apr 2026Refused
the construction of a single storey dwelling and a domestic garage and a waste water treatment system and a vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660217
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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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
- 45.8 ha
- 113 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 4,516 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghamore, from 5 m² to 68,960 m² (6.9 ha, 17.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Aghamore 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
24 Apr 2026Refused
the construction of a single storey dwelling and a domestic garage and a waste water treatment system and a vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660217
27 Mar 2026N/a
the construction of a single storey dwelling and a domestic garage and a waste water treatment system and a vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Retention · Offaly County Council, 2660161
13 Mar 2026N/a
the construction of a single storey dwelling and a domestic garage and a waste water treatment system and a vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660132
4 Oct 2022Conditional
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22509
23 Dec 2020N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER
Outline permission · Offaly County Council, 20664
16 Nov 2020N/a
DWELLING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND TREATMENT SYSTEM
Outline permission · Offaly County Council, 20565
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 Aghamore.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghamore.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghamore.
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 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 moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aghamore.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Aghamore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Aghamore · An tÁth Mór
- Area
- 457,613 m² (45.76 ha, 113.08 acres)
- Civil parish
- Croghan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Philipstown Lower
- Electoral division
- Croghan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 570 people lived in 182 households in the Croghan electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clonearl Demesne, Croghan Demesne, Down, Grovesend, Oldcroghan
- Placenames
- Aghamore 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.