Aghacloghan

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghacloghan, from 19 m² to 120,375 m² (12.04 ha, 29.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Aghacloghan 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.

• 15 May 2026Conditional

  permission for development at Aghacloghan, Carrickmacross, County Monaghan. The development will consist of; Construction of single-storey short-term accommodation extension to existing environmental education and retreat centre, internal and external alterations and additions, connections to existing services and all associated site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660196

• 16 Oct 2020Conditional

  permission for development consisting of a bungalow type dwelling house a waste water treatment system, a new site entrance with all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20431

• 13 Jan 2020Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of the construction of a single storey extension to the front of an existing dwelling house and for associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 206

• 18 Dec 2019Conditional

  erect two storey dwelling house, waste water treatment system and all associated site works.

  Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 199020

• 22 Jul 2019Conditional

  permission for the retention and completion of the front elevational changes to an existing dwelling. These changes include the replacement of the existing brick quoins and detailing on the front porch/projection to a rendered finish to match that of the existing dwelling.

  Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19339

• 14 Jun 2019Conditional

  Permission for development to consist of a change of use from an old unused farm and buildings which will include (1) the hay shed and (2) the stone shed to provide an environmental education and retreat centre (small scale), new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19269

• 24 Jan 2018Conditional

  Permission to develop single storey dwelling, garage, waste water treatment system, associated percolation area, entrance, driveway and all associated siteworks.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 1827

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 Aghacloghan.

Recorded monuments

• MO028-056 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the summit and at the centre of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. Two circular enclosures are depicted at Aghacloghan on McCrea’s map of Coounty Monaghan (1793), and this monument is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’ on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map, with a SSW-NNE lane truncating the perimeter slightly W-NW. Portion of the bank is incorporated into a field bank (at N: int. H 0.5m; ext. H 2m) NW-E (Chord c. 37m), with traces of a fosse at NE. Rath (MO028-057----) is c. 140m to the 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: 6 December 2017

• MO028-057 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the spine of a NW-SE drumlin ridge towards the SE end. Two circular enclosures are depicted at Aghacloghan on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793) and this is the more southerly monument with rath (MO028-056----) is c. 140m to the NW. It is a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 46m NE-SW; 42m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.3-0.4m; ext. H 0.7m at NW to 1.8m at SE) that is reduced to a low scarp N-E. There is an outer fosse (at NW: Wth of top 6m) S-W-NNE, and an outer bank (at NW: Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.3m) SW-N. There is an entrance (Wth of base 2.2m) at SE, and the interior is bisected by a NE-SW field bank (max. ext. diam. 57m NW-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: 6 December 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Aghacloghan, 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 high, 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 Aghacloghan.

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

Name

Aghacloghan · Áth an Chlocháin

Area

951,167 m² (95.12 ha, 235.04 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Bocks, the unit of the census

Census 2022

779 people lived in 246 households in the Bocks electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bocks Upper, Cashlan West, Drumberagh, Killarue, Lisdoonan, Peast

Placenames

Aghacloghan 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.