Aghaboy

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghaboy, from 26 m² to 224,187 m² (22.42 ha, 55.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Aghaboy 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.

• 28 Jun 2019Conditional

  permission to erect a dormer dwelling and detached domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area,new entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19300

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 Aghaboy.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghaboy.

Architectural heritage

• Aghaboy House, house, 1760–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, having porch to front elevation, and earlier three-bay two-storey block of c.1780 to rear (south-east). Hipped slate roofs with yellow brick chimneystacks, timber eaves boards and cast-iron rainwater goods, and with roof-light to rear projection. Coursed rubble limestone walls, render removed to front and south-west elevation, having red brick block-and-start quoins to first floor and dressed limestone rubble quoins to ground floor. Smooth render to north-east elevation of older block and rear of later block. Roughcast render to porch with moulded render platband and cornice, and plain quoins. Half-dormer windows to south-west elevation, having decorative timber bargeboards and dropped finials. Gauged brick square-headed window openings with render reveals, painted masonry sills, red brick surrounds and replacement uPVC windows that mimic one-over-one pane timber sash windows. Shouldered render surround to windows to porch. Render surrounds to windows to north-east elevation of older block. Square-headed door opening to north-east elevation of porch having render surround and replacement timber battened door, with cast-iron boot scraper to front. Square-headed door openings to north-east elevation of older block, with render surrounds, stone steps and replacement timber doors. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding adjoining rear, recently refurbished, having pitched slate roof with recent roof-lights, replacement rainwater goods and yellow brick chimneystack, rubble walls to south-east and south-west, render to other elevations, square-headed window openings with red brick and render surrounds, stone sills, and replacement uPVC windows, square-headed door opening to north-east elevation with render surround and replacement uPVC door, with three stone steps. Square-headed door opening to south-east elevation having replacement uPVC door. Three-bay outbuilding to north-east of rear of house, with pitched slate roof having terracotta ridge tiles, whitewashed coursed rubble limestone walls, square-headed timber doors. Cast-iron railings on coursed rubble limestone plinth walls having render capping surrounding area to front of house. Single-leaf cast-iron pedestrian gate flanked by cast-iron fluted and banded piers to north-west of house. Pair of round-plan rubble limestone piers with render capping flanking single-leaf cast-iron vehicular gate to north of house.

• Bridge, 1760–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch bridge, built c.1770, carrying road over Mountain Water. Arch to north-west is flood arch, lower and currently dry. Segmental arches with roughly dressed limestone voussoirs and V-shaped cut-waters to each elevation having later concrete reinforcements and render capping. Coursed rubble limestone to spandrel and parapet walls, stone coping to parapets. U-shaped buttress to south-west elevation.

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 20 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 Aghaboy.

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

Name

Aghaboy · Achadh Buí

Area

347,180 m² (34.72 ha, 85.79 acres)

Civil parish

Donagh, and its townlands

Barony

Trough

Electoral division

Emyvale, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Emyvale electoral division: 1,158 people in 446 households; 67% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Desert, Killyrean Lower, Knockaphubble, Letloonigan, Mullaliss, Portinaghy, Streanduff

Placenames

Aghaboy 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.