Aghanvilla

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghanvilla, from 2,689 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres) to 192,022 m² (19.2 ha, 47.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Aghanvilla 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.

• 8 Apr 2026Refused

  an existing temporary mobile home which will be removed before the end of September 2026, and a one-bedroom log cabin, both connected to a septic tank. Retention permission is also sought for an existing site entrance onto the public road.

  Retention, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 2660184

• 16 Mar 2026Conditional

  a single storey, masonry constructed garage to the side of the existing dwelling

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660138

• 11 Mar 2026N/a

  an existing temporary mobile home which will be removed before the end of September 2026, and a one-bedroom log cabin, both connected to a septic tank. Retention permission is also sought for an existing site entrance onto the public road

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2660116

• 16 Feb 2026N/a

  a single storey, masonry constructed garage to the side of the existing dwelling house

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2660081

• 28 Jan 2026N/a

  an existing temporary mobile home and an existing beauty treatment studio, both connected to a septic tank. Retention permission is also sought for an existing site entrance onto the public road

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2660037

• 20 Nov 2025N/a

  single storey, masonry constructed garage to the side of the existing dwelling house

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2560572

• 4 Nov 2024N/a

  A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO A NEW EFFLUENT WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, THE ERECTION OF A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 24159

• 16 Oct 2018Conditional

  THE ERECTION OF A STRAW BASED CATTLE SHED AND DUNGSTEAD AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 18449

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Raheen Lough 000917

Recorded monuments

• OF026-022001 Church
  Description

  Located on top of an esker ridge with an impressive motte (OF026-031----) to the S. Poorly preserved ruins of a small rectangular church with only the NE portion of the church surviving with a later graveyard (OF026-022002-) wall attached to the W end of the N wall and the S end of the E wall. The graveyard wall is built with rubble from the church. The church itself was constructed from large irregular shaped boulders which may indicate an early medieval date. The walls of the church are approx. 1m thick with the N wall surviving for a distance of 5.7m and the E wall surviving for a distance of 4.9m. There is evidence of a blocked up window on the N wall. The land around the church was recently planted in forestry. No graveslabs visible in the graveyard. Very small graveyard which incorporates the E section of the N wall (L c. 9.5m, H 2m) and N end of E wall (L 5.8m, H 2.3m, T 0.9m) of the church. Remains of splayed window in N wall. Walls of church are built with rubble masonry and could be of an early medieval date. 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

• OF026-022002 Graveyard
  Description

  Located on top of an esker ridge with an impressive motte (OF026-031----) to the S. Poorly preserved ruins of a small rectangular church (OF026-022001-) with only the NE portion of the church surviving with a later graveyard wall attached to the W end of the N wall and the S end of the E wall. The graveyard wall is built with rubble from the church. The church itself was constructed from large irregular shaped boulders which may indicate an early medieval date. The walls of the church are approx. 1m thick with the N wall surviving for a distance of 5.7m and the E wall surviving for a distance of 4.9m. There is evidence of a blocked up window on the N wall. The land around the church was recently planted in forestry. No graveslabs visible in the graveyard. Very small graveyard which incorporates the E section of the N wall (L c. 9.5m, H 2m) and N end of E wall (L 5.8m, H 2.3m, T 0.9m) of the church. Remains of splayed window in N wall. Walls of church are built with rubble masonry and could be of an early medieval date. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF026-022003 Enclosure
  Description

  No surface remains of any enclosure around the church (OF026-022001-) and graveyard (OF026-022002-) 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 Aghanvilla.

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 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 the townland of Aghanvilla.

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

Name

Aghanvilla · Achadh an Bhile

Area

1,367,040 m² (136.7 ha, 337.8 acres)

Civil parish

Geashill, and its townlands

Barony

Philipstown Upper

Electoral division

Clonygowan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonygowan electoral division: 727 people in 233 households; 90% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ard, Down, Gorteenard, Raheen

Placenames

Aghanvilla 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.