Aghadouglas

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghadouglas, from 1,572 m² to 144,388 m² (14.44 ha, 35.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Aghadouglas 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Aghadouglas 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 the townland of Aghadouglas.

Recorded monuments

• OF042-021001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Located on top of natural glacial knoll in upland area overlooking river to the N. Poorly preserved grass covered wall footings of a rectangular structure (ext. dims. 9.5m N-S; 12m E-W; wall T c. 2m) with possible rectangular bawn (OF042-021002-) to the N. The walls were constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble with base batter evident at SE angle. No other architectural features visible. 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

• OF042-021002 Bawn
  Description

  Located on top of natural glacial knoll in upland area overlooking river to the N. Poorly preserved grass covered wall footings of a rectangular structure (OF042-021001-) with possible rectangular bawn to the N. The walls were constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble with base batter evident at SE angle. No other architectural features visible. 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

• OF042-022 Church
  Description

  On high ground in upland area with castle (OF042-021001-) to the W and mill to the NW. A single hawthorn tree and scattered loose stones are all that survives of this church site. No other features visible. 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 Aghadouglas.

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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1701 (ZIP).

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

Name

Aghadouglas · Achadh Dúghlas

Area

931,594 m² (93.16 ha, 230.2 acres)

Civil parish

Ettagh, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Ettagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ettagh electoral division: 515 people in 170 households; 93% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybeg, Ballyknockan, Conicker, Drumakeenan, Glasderry Beg

Placenames

Aghadouglas 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.