Aghnamard

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghnamard, from 2,134 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres) to 56,234 m² (5.62 ha, 13.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Aghnamard 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 Aghnamard 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 Aghnamard.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghnamard.

Architectural heritage

• Ture National School, school, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey school, built c.1880, having gabled porch to front (south) elevation. Now disused. Pitched replacement slate roof and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with dressed limestone block-and-start quoins, and having rendered plinth course to rear. Chamfered corners to front of porch. Square-headed window openings having painted masonry sills, render reveals and timber casement windows. Segmental-headed window opening to front of porch, with render sill. Square-headed door timber battened door to east elevation of porch. Set back from road at corner.

• Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1810–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding four-bay Roman Catholic church, dated 1843, but possibly incorporating earlier, smaller building, having three-stage entrance tower to south and lower two-bay sacristy to north elevation. Pitched artificial slate roof with replacement rainwater goods, with cut limestone pinnacles and cross finial to tower. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered quoins and plinth, painted brick quoins to sacristy. Exposed rubble stone walls to tower with cut limestone string courses, circular plaque and inscribed date plaque. Pointed-arch window openings with painted stone surrounds, sills and hood-mouldings, and stained glass. Lancet openings to tower having cut limestone surrounds, timber louvers to top stage and timber nine-over-nine pane sliding sash window with Y-trscery to fanlight to south elevation of middle stage. Pointed-arch door opening to tower with cut limestone surround, hood-moulding, and timber battened door. Square-headed door opening to sacristy with painted brick surround. Interior entered through tower, and has smooth rendered walls, inlaid parquet ceiling, two rows of pews, and marble altar and timber lectern on raised platform. Carved timber confessional to rear. Pointed-arch door to rear with render surround, double-leaf half-glazed timber panelled door and timber panelled tympanum. Square-headed door opening to vestry with timber panelled door. Square-plan rendered piers and boundary wall to front of site.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Aghnamard.

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

Name

Aghnamard · Achadh na mBard

Area

219,883 m² (21.99 ha, 54.33 acres)

Civil parish

Killeevan, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Newbliss, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Newbliss electoral division: 918 people in 322 households; 76% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corconnelly, Dunseark, Fremagh, Mullaghboy, Racaulfield, Ture

Placenames

Aghnamard 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.