Aghinillard

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghinillard, from 88 m² to 122,453 m² (12.25 ha, 30.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Aghinillard 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.

• 25 Jun 2024Conditional

  permission consisting of the demolition of existing dwelling and construction of single storey replacement dwelling, detached domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, entrance off existing lane and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2460224

• 15 May 2024N/a

  permission for a development consisting of single storey replacement dwelling, detached domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, entrance off existing lane and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2460170

• 3 Oct 2018Conditional

  Permission to construct a two storey extension to the side elevation of the existing two storey dwelling along the roofed terrace and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18458

• 15 Aug 2018Conditional

  Permission to construct a single storey extension to the rear of the existing single storey dwelling, alterations and additions to the existing dwelling, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18386

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 Aghinillard.

Recorded monuments

• MO030-032001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a small NW-SE ridge, which is on the NE-facing slope of a drumlin. This is an overgrown circular area (diam. 52m NW-SE; 45m NE-SW) planted with coniferous trees, which is defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at SE: Wth of base c. 5m; Wth of top c. 2m; int. H c. 1m; ext. H c. 3m), with slight traces of an external fosse (at WSW: Wth c. 4m; ext. D 0.2m) SW-N. There is an entrance (Wth of base 1.5m) at WNW. There is local knowledge of a souterrain in the bank at NNE, which is said to have had a lintelled entrance, but it is no longer evident. A NE-SW field bank cuts the monument towards the perimeter at SE. 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: 25 August 2017

• MO030-032002 Souterrain
  Description

  There is local knowledge of a souterrain in the bank of rath (MO030-032001-) at NNE, which is said to have had a lintelled entrance, but it is no longer evident. 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: 25 August 2017

Architectural heritage

• Farmyard complex, 1850–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, comprising five-bay two-storey farm house, built c.1925, with flat-roofed porch to front (north-east) and rear elevations, two-bay two-storey outbuilding, former smithy, to north-west range of front yard, having external staircase to south-west gable, and farmyard with barn and outbuildings to rear. Outbuildings built c.1860. Pitched slate roof to house, with red brick and rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having patent reveals, with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor and bipartite one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor. Square-headed door opening having recent timber door and sidelights. Outbuilding to front having pitched corrugated-iron roof, whitewashed rubble stone walls, square-headed openings and external staircase of cement rendered rubble stone. Two single-storey outbuildings to rear yard having pitched corrugated-iron roofs, whitewashed rubble stone walls and square-headed openings with timber battened fittings. Twentieth-century corrugated-iron barrel-roof barn to rear. Wrought-iron double-leaf gates to north corner of front yard, with single rendered pier, whitewashed rubble stone boundary wall to north and east of yard. Wrought-iron farm gate to rear yard entrance to east.

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

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

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

Name

Aghinillard · Achadh an Iolaird

Area

701,188 m² (70.12 ha, 173.27 acres)

Civil parish

Magheracloone, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Drumcarrow, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumcarrow electoral division: 515 people in 164 households; 90% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cornalaragh, Doagh, Drumcarrow, Lisnaclea

Placenames

Aghinillard 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.