Aghnafarcan

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghnafarcan, from 541 m² to 131,696 m² (13.17 ha, 32.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Aghnafarcan 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.

• 30 Jul 2025Conditional

  planning permission for a development which will consist of a two-storey dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, provision of new entrance and entrance piers, installation of a wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2560298

• 28 May 2025Refused

  permission for development consisting of a single storey pet crematorium building, Installation of a Wastewater Treatment System and associated Raised Mound Percolation Area, Car Parking Spaces, Landscaping, use of existing entrance and exit onto the public road together with all ancillary site development works (Previously Granted under Planning Reference No. 19/320)

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560212

• 2 Oct 2024Refused

  permission for a single storey pet crematorium building, installation of a wastewater treatment system and associated raised mound percolation area, car parking, landscaping, use of existing entrance and exit onto the public road together with all ancillary site development works

  Extension of duration · Monaghan County Council, 249020

• 18 Sept 2020Refused

  Permission to consist of a single storey human crematorium building incorporating a chapel of rest to be provided adjacent to and within the same complex as previously approved pet crematorium building (Planning Reference No. 19/320), connection to proposed wastewater treatment system and associated raised mound percolation area, connection to and upgrade of surface water collection and disposal system as approved under Planning Reference No. 19/320, provision of additional car parking spaces, additional landscaping, use of existing approved vehicular entrance and exit onto the public road together with ancillary site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 20381

• 11 Jul 2019Conditional

  permission for a single storey pet crematorium building, installation of a wastewater treatment system and associated raised mound percolation area, car parking, landscaping, use of existing entrance and exit onto the public road together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 19320

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 Aghnafarcan.

Recorded monuments

• MO025-027 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  Situated on a rise on a NE-facing slope. It is described in gothic lettering only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map as ‘Minnavarmore’. In the folk tradition it is the burial place of a Scandinavian giant called Manowar, who came here to kill Fin McCool. Fearing the foreign visitor, Fin had himself disguised as a baby by his wife and bit Manowar on the finger when the latter attempted to tease him. As this was just the baby Manowar became afraid and attempted to leave but dropped dead mysteriously afterwards (Flanagan 1933; IFC, Schools MSS, (931), 184-88: https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes). A single gallery (L 4.5m; Wth c. 1.7m) is aligned E-W with two jamb stones surviving at the E end. The interior is obscured by spoil. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 27 February 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 Aghnafarcan.

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

Name

Aghnafarcan · Achadh Farcáin

Area

543,483 m² (54.35 ha, 134.3 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Broomfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Broomfield electoral division: 831 people in 264 households; 87% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumhaman, Fincarn, Kednagullion, Lisagore, Lisnamacka, Monyglen, Tusker

Placenames

Aghnafarcan 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.