Aghnaskea

Area

44,000 m² (4.4 ha, 10.87 acres)

Buildings

3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 269 m².

Zoning

No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.

Townland

Aghnaskea

Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.

• MO012-050 Crannog
  Description

  Located in Roosky Lough, which is a rectangular lake (max. dims c. 370m WNW-ESE; c. 160m NNE-SSW) with a rectangular extension (max. dims c. 350m NNE-SSW; c. 110m WNW-ESE) extending S from its W end. It is suggested that there are three crannogs in the lake (Smyth 1954, 5), and this might be the third. The lake is greatly reduced from its representation on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map, but this feature, depicted as the bulbous end of a promontory (dims c. 25m NE-SW; c. 15m NW-SE) on the 1907 OS 6-inch map appears to be a natural feature. 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: 17 July 2007

• MO012-051 Crannog
  Description

  Located in Roosky Lough, which is a rectangular lake (max. dims c. 370m WNW-ESE; c. 160m NNE-SSW) with a rectangular extension (max. dims c. 350m NNE-SSW; c. 110m WNW-ESE) extending S from its W end. Two crannogs in an L-shaped lake are represented on a Bartlett map of 1602-03, which have been mistaken for the crannog in Monaghan town (MO009-037----) (O’Sullivan 1997, Pl. 58), but the representation corresponds closest to Roosky lake (pers. comm. Grace Moloney 2012). The Bartlett map indicates that these crannogs were occupied or re-occupied in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when Roosky was a power centre of the Dartry Mac Manons (Ó Mórdha 1957, 156-8). The lake is greatly reduced now from its representation on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This W crannog is a circular island (diam. 14m N-S; 13m E-W; H 0.7m over the water) surrounded by reeds, except at S where the water is deep. The matrix is stones and clay, but piles can be seen protruding from the mound at S. 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 See the attached image from Bartlett's map with this crannog at right centre. Date of revision: 29 January 2018

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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).

Ground and risks

Radon

At the centre of this parcel, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.

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.

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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.