Aghnacue

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghnacue, from 334 m² to 84,390 m² (8.44 ha, 20.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Aghnacue 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.

• 11 Aug 2020Conditional

  permission to widen an existing forestry entrance onto public roadway and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 20321

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 Aghnacue.

Recorded monuments

• MO018-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  : Located on a rise at the SW end of a NE-SW ridge. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 38m WNW-ESE; 36m NNE-SSW) defined by a scarp (at SSE: H 1.45m) that is planted with trees except N-SSE. The scarp has been steepened into an almost vertical face with a modern field bank at the base SSE-W-N. There is a slight ramp entrance at E, which might be the original entrance. 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: 18 June 2018

Architectural heritage

• Doupy Mills, mill (water), 1800–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of mill buildings, built c.1820, with additions of c.1910. Now disused. Comprising water-powered corn mill, kiln and store, engine-driven grain mill, engine house, and mill office. Attached multiple-bay two-storey corn kiln and store, comprising five-bay ground floor and three-bay first floor, with one blocked door loading door opening to first floor front (south) elevation. Single-storey to rear (north) due to slope of site. Pitched corrugated-iron roof. Random rubble walls, linked to corn mill to east, with brick eaves course and brick quoins to first floor level to gable walls. Segmental-headed window openings with block-and-start surrounds, and some timber-framed windows. Square-headed loop window openings to ground floor. Segmental-headed door openings with brick surrounds and timber battened doors. Attached two-storey corn mill to south-east, having engine-driven mill, built c.1910, at south-east, and with abutting corrugated-iron-sided grain mill at south-east. Single-storey to north due to slope of site. Pitched corrugated-iron roof, gabled to east and west. Random rubble walls with some cement rebuilt sections. External water-wheel to north-east gable with cast-iron rim and angled wooden buckets and sole-plate. Square-headed window openings with timber-framed windows, with cast-iron lattice-pane window to rear. Gauged-brick door opening with red brick block-and-start surrounds and timber battened door to front. Square-headed door openings with timber battened fittings to rear. Single-bay two-storey grain mill abutting south-east of corn mill. Corrugated-iron flat roof and wall cladding. Cement rendered, breeze-block and corrugated-iron-clad engine house, with flat corrugated-iron roof, attached to south-east of grain mill. Square-headed window opening with timber-framed window. Square-headed door openings. Three-bay single-storey mill office to south-west of corn kiln. Pitched corrugated-asbestos roof, gabled to north and south. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Cement wet-cast rendered walls. Timber name-plate over door, trace of lettering, illegible. Square headed window openings with render sills and corrugated-iron closure. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door. Free-standing tapered square-plan brick chimneystack north of mill complex, built c.1910, on square-plan random rubble walled base, and with dentillated brick cornice. Red brick shaft in English Garden Wall bond with queens closers. Detached two-bay single-storey mill-related house with attic and aligned east-west along south side of road at junction. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles and central brick chimney. Random rubble walls, some remaining lime render, with dressed quoins. Square-headed and gauged brick openings with some timber fittings. Remains of water-powered flax mill to north-east of corn mill, comprising two-bay single-storey mill building and single-bay single-storey shed. Pitched corrugated-asbestos roof to mill, with mono-pitch corrugated-iron roof to shed. Cement wet-dash rendered walls to mill. Coursed rubble and corrugated-iron cladding to shed. Square-headed window and door openings, with timber battened door and timber pivoted and casement windows to mill. Water channel to east of complex, with remains of mill pond and sluices to north-east. Located to north of Ballybay to Newbliss road, north of Dundalk to Enniskillen branch of Great Northern Railway opened in 1855.

• Bridge, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch masonry railway bridge, built c.1855, carrying Dundalk and Enniskillen Branch of former Ulster Railway over road. Segmental arch with rock-faced rusticated sandstone voussoirs and dressed stone soffits. Squared rubble stone parapet walls, with dressed stone copings. Rock-faced rusticated spandrel walls, and squared rubble abutment walls. Wing walls, also of squared rubble, projecting at right angles from north and south elevations, coped with dressed stone blocks and terminating in rusticated and margined piers.

• Bridge, 1845–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch masonry railway bridge, built c.1850, carrying Dundalk to Enniskillen Branch of former Ulster Railway over local access road. Segmental arch with rock-faced rusticated stone voussoirs and random rubble soffit. Squared stone parapet walls, with squared rusticated stone copings. Rock-faced rusticated spandrels and squared random rubble abutment walls. Wing walls, also of squared rubble, project at right angles from north and south elevations, with dressed stone copings and terminating in square-plan piers, some damaged.

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 Aghnacue, about 1 in 20 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aghnacue.

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

Name

Aghnacue · Achadh Mhic Aodha

Area

715,298 m² (71.53 ha, 176.75 acres)

Civil parish

Aghabog, and its townlands

Barony

Dartree

Electoral division

Aghabog, the unit of the census

Census 2022

318 people lived in 113 households in the Aghabog electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghadrumkeen, Corranewy, Dernaroy, Drumbrean, Mullaghgreenan, Rakeevan

Placenames

Aghnacue 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.