Aghnaskew

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghnaskew, from 250 m² to 84,311 m² (8.43 ha, 20.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Aghnaskew 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 Aghnaskew 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 Aghnaskew.

Recorded monuments

• MO023-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the NW tip of a SE-NW spur. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 38.5m NNW-SSE; 34.5m ENE-WSW) with a NNW-SSE exposed rib of rock outcrop in the interior. The rath is defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (at SW: Wth of base 6.4m; Wth of top 2m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 0.9m) with some bushes separated by a berm (at N: Wth 4.5m; at SW: Wth 1.3m) from an outer earthen bank (at SW: Wth of base 2.5m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 1.1m) that is missing W-NNW where the slope is very steep. There is an entrance through the inner (Wth of base 2.5m) and outer (Wth of base 2.2m) banks at ESE along the spur 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 19 June 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 Aghnaskew, 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 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 Aghnaskew.

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

Name

Aghnaskew · Achadh na Sciadh

Area

654,216 m² (65.42 ha, 161.66 acres)

Civil parish

Aghnamullen, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Creeve, the unit of the census

Census 2022

705 people lived in 230 households in the Creeve electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Anveyerg, Cargaghbane, Garrybane, Garryduff, Lisdrumcleve, Moyle Beg

Placenames

Aghnaskew 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.