Aghnahola

90 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghnahola, from 28 m² to 159,014 m² (15.9 ha, 39.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G5Recreation/Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Landscape Protection/Conservation (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031, Monaghan · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 8 May 2024Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of a single storey childcare facility, new access lane, new car park, connection to existing services and all associated site works, Significant Further Information relates to, Stage 1&2 Road Safety Audit, Revised Drawings, Lighting Design and letter from Traynor Environmental Ltd

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460164

• 14 Mar 2019Conditional

  Proposed development consists of 1- Site Clearance and levelling of soil within the park, 2- Construction of a network of paths within the central green area of the park, 3-Installation of additional seating/picnic benches, public lighting and outdoor gym equipment, 4-Landscaping works to include, Installation of an Open-air Amphitheatre mound with sunken performance area and insitu-concrete seating, a 2.0m high grasses mound and a wetlands/ Sunken Marsh Area, 5-Construction of a pedestrian footbridge over river to adjoining lands, and enabling works to river, 6-Diversion and provision of utilities/services where required to service the site, 7-Drainage and any other site ancillary works required.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 198004

• 24 Aug 2018Conditional

  Permission to upgrade the existing car park facilities at the Community Centre, new vehicular entrance and exit and all associated ancillary works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18402

• 7 Sept 2017N/a

  Permission to upgrade exsting car park facilities at the community centre, new vehicular entrance and exit and all associated ancillary works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17431

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 Aghnahola.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghnahola.

Architectural heritage

• Currin Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey rectory, built c.1880, having full-height pedimented porch projection to front (north) elevation, box-bay window to west end elevation, and recent single-storey extension to rear. Hipped slate roof, with polychrome brick chimneystacks with clay pots, and clay ridge tiles. Replacement rainwater goods, polychrome brick eaves course, under projecting eaves supported on paired moulded timber eaves brackets. Timber bargeboards and finial to projecting porch. Red brick walls, laid in Flemish bond, having red brick plinth course, yellow brick string course over ground floor at sill level to first floor, and at impost level of first floor windows forming base to eaves course. String courses continued in red brick to rear. Yellow brick diamond-shaped recessed panel to apex of porch to front. Square-headed window openings, east and west elevations, and round-headed paired windows to first floor of entrance projection, with gauged yellow brick voussoirs, stone sills, and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Box-bay window has continuous stone lintel and sill, chamfered red brick mullions and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed door opening to porch, having chamfered red brick surround and half-glazed timber panelled door with over-light, set within recessed segmental-headed recess with yellow brick voussoirs and render foliate moulded imposts. Stone platform to front. Four-bay two-storey outbuilding to yard to rear of house, having pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, coursed rubble stone walls having squared block-and-start quoins, square-headed openings with red brick surrounds, stone sills, timber louvered vents and timber windows. Gauged-brick square-headed door openings having timber battened doors, and gauged-brick three-centred door opening with double-leaf timber battened door. Gateway to north-east of house comprising double-leaf wrought-iron gate flanked by cylindrical cast-iron columns. Single-leaf pedestrian matching gate to east, with curved matching railings.

• Saint Andrew's Church (Currin), church/chapel, 1810–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Board of First Fruits Gothic-style Church of Ireland church, built 1812, probably to designs by William Farrell of Dublin, remodelled 1859 and 1866 by Henry Sharpe to designs by Alexander Hardy of Derry, extended and restored 1905 to designs by Samuel Close of Belfast. Consisting of four-bay nave, three-stage tower to east gable, chancel of 1905 with lower ridge to west, and vestry of 1905 to south side of nave. Pitched natural slate roof, angled blue/black terracotta ridge tiles, offset stone verges, terracotta cowl finial to nave apex, cast-iron gutters on sandstone eaves course. Tower has crenellated parapet with elongated pyramidal pinnacles to corners. Roughcast walling to nave and tower with string courses. Squared-and-snecked limestone walling to chancel and vestry. Pointed-arch sandstone Y-tracery diagonally-glazed windows of 1859 with stained margins and flush chamfered surrounds and sills to north elevation (south elevation blank). Lancet to tower base, and loop to second stage. Chancel east gable has intersecting tracery stained-glass window, similarly detailed, stained-glass lancets to chancel cheeks. Tower third (belfry) stage has timber Y-tracery louvered opening to all sides. Square-headed entrance has stained and varnished diagonally-sheeted timber panelled door in dressed sandstone lugged surround, bootscraper visible. Entry via tower. Timber staircase to tower with access to belfry via cast-iron ladder. Smooth rendered walls to interior of nave, with wainscoting to chancel and marble and brass memorials to nave walls. Pointed chancel arch with chamfered dressed sandstone surround. Timber gallery, with panelled balustrade and round-plan Doric-style timber columns. Recessed round-headed panel to centre of rear wall of gallery, with square-headed door timber panelled door to centre. Open hammer-beam timber truss roof, with moulded stone stops. Two rows of timber pews on raised timber platforms, timber pulpit, brass columnar lectern with brass eagle bible-holder, and organ. Set back from road in graveyard with manicured yew trees and nineteenth-century grave monuments. Rubble stone boundary walls, with wrought-iron gate hinged to square rendered piers with pyramidal caps.

• Saint Andrew's Church (Currin), Grave monument, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Moulded granite sarcophagus, carved c.1880, having lion's feet base, set on plain stone slab, marking grave of members of Madden family. Moulded granite lid with bronze soldier's hat and scabbard. Inscriptions to each side of tomb. Set within enclosure bounded by cast-iron spearheaded railings on rendered plinth with dressed sandstone coping, having cast-iron pedestrian gate to front (east) elevation. Other family graves also contained within enclosure, including two cross memorials, and variously-shaped marble and limestone headstones.

• Scotshouse National School, school, 1790–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey school house, built c.1800, having gabled porch to front (east) elevation and external stone steps to north gable. No longer in use. Pitched slate roof, with red brick chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and clay ridge tiles. Roughcast rendered walls, coursed rubble stone visible in areas. Square-headed window openings to front, with painted stone sills, boarded up and some painted. Square-headed window opening to rear, having tooled stone sill and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window. Square-headed timber battened doors to north elevation of porch and to top of steps, latter having rendered parapet.

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 Aghnahola, about 1 in 20 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Aghnahola · Achadh na hAbhla

Area

372,823 m² (37.28 ha, 92.13 acres)

Civil parish

Currin, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Currin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

729 people lived in 255 households in the Currin electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghnaskew, Cavanreagh, Coolnacarte, Drumbure, Dungonnan, Dunsrim, Killyfargy

Placenames

Aghnahola 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.