Aghakista

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghakista, from 4,710 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres) to 44,920 m² (4.49 ha, 11.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Aghakista 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.

• 1 Jun 2023Conditional

  permission for the construction of a two-storey dwelling, attached garage, new entrance, gates and piers, installation of a wastewater treatment system and sand polishing area together with all ancillary and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2360097

• 13 Jan 2023Refused

  permission for development consisting of a two-storey dwelling, attached garage, new entrance, gates and piers, installation of a wastewater treatment system and sand polishing area together with all ancillary and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 239

• 2 Jun 2021Conditional

  permission for the renovation and extension to existing cottage, relocation of existing entrance with new entrance gates and piers, complete the raised percolation area, install new treatment plant with all ancillary and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21310

• 14 Sept 2018Conditional

  permission to demolish an existing single storey dwelling and construct a two-storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, new wastewater treatment system & all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18431

• 5 Apr 2018Refused

  permission to demolish an existing single storey dwelling and construct a two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, new wastewater treatment system & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18132

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 Aghakista.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghakista.

Architectural heritage

• Ashgrove, house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1860. Now unoccupied, much overgrown, and derelict. Hipped slate roof with paired red brick chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with painted masonry sills, and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with internal panelled shutters. Segmental-headed door opening, having spoked fanlight, paned sidelights, and timber panelled door. Set in own grounds at roadside. Entrance comprising wrought-iron pedestrian gate flanked by square-plan rendered piers, and textured concrete block boundary walls. Yard to east having ruinous remains of multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to roadside, and multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding, with single-storey lean-to addition to west gable, to south of yard, having pitched slate and corrugated-iron roofs, rendered coursed rubble stone walls with enlarged quoins, and square-headed openings. Wrought-iron gate with square-plan rendered piers to yard entrance.

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 Aghakista, about 1 in 5 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2478 (ZIP).

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

Name

Aghakista · Achadh an Chiste

Area

1,042,764 m² (104.28 ha, 257.67 acres)

Civil parish

Aghnamullen, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Carrickatee, the unit of the census

Census 2022

378 people lived in 118 households in the Carrickatee electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annahaia, Carrickatee, Creeve, Mullanary Cortannel, Roo

Placenames

Aghakista 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.