Aughrim More

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aughrim More, from 193 m² to 131,949 m² (13.19 ha, 32.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Aughrim More 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.

• 11 Mar 2026Conditional

  permission to install a domestic wastewater treatment system, and all associated site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660083

• 9 Mar 2026N/a

  construction of a single storey extension and alterations to an existing dwelling house and associated site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660074

• 18 Feb 2026N/a

  construction of a single storey extension and alterations to an existing dwelling house and associated site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660051

• 21 Sept 2022N/a

  permission consisting of the infilling of low lying farmland and raising of levels with soil, subsoil and inert material in order to reclaim the land for agricultural purposes together with all ancillary site development works. The lands will be covered with topsoil and reseeded with grass when completed

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 22418

• 20 Sept 2021Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of retention for sunroom extension to the side of existing dwelling, permission for re-location of site boundaries to encompass existing septic tank and percolation area and all associated site development works

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 21533

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 Aughrim More.

Recorded monuments

• MO028-092 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the summit of a NW-SE ridge. This is a subcircular overgrown area (dims 40m NW-SE; 33m NE-SW) defined by a slight earthen bank (at W: Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.9m; at NE: Wth 3m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.65m), with an outer flat-bottomed fosse (at NW: Wth of top 3m; ext. D 1m) and an outer bank (at SW: Wth of base 3.5m; ext. H 1m) ENE-SSW. The original entrance is not identified. The interior is bisected by a NW-SE field bank and field banks extend to the NNE and SW from this. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 8 December 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Aughrim More, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aughrim More.

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 Aughrim More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Aughrim More · Eachroim Mór

Area

935,219 m² (93.52 ha, 231.1 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Kilmurry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

669 people lived in 207 households in the Kilmurry electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughrim Beg, Cargaghlisnanarney, Cloghoge and Tievadinna, Drumganny, Kilmurry, Tattyboy

Placenames

Aughrim More 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.