Aghagegna
Aghagegna is a townland in the civil parish of Crosserlough, barony of Castlerahan, Co. Cavan. Its name in Irish is Achadh na gCuigne.
Parcel 454577
- Area
- 5,108 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 294 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
- Aghagegna
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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 5 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.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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.
- Area
- 66.3 ha
- 164 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 9,082 m² (0.91 ha, 2.24 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghagegna, from 208 m² to 139,796 m² (13.98 ha, 34.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Aghagegna 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
24 Jun 2026N/a
for the demolition of an existing dwelling and the construction of a new two-storey detached replacement dwelling. The proposed works also include the upgrade of the existing septic tank to a new mechanical wastewater treatment unit & percolation area (granted under Previous Planning Reg. No. 2560141)
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660347
1 Apr 2025Conditional
for RETENTION of ‘as-built’ two-storey extension to side of existing dwelling house. Planning PERMISSION is also sought to renovate & carry out further extensions & alterations to the existing dwelling, comprising of the following, (1) Demolition and reconstruction of the front porch, (2) Construct new two-storey extensions to the front & rear of the dwelling, (3) To re-form the first floor level windows and other minor alterations to elevations, and (4) to upgrade existing septic tank to new mechanical wastewater treatment unit & percolation area. Together with all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560141
9 May 2022Conditional
to (A) Retain existing underground slatted slurry holding tank, (B) construct an agricultural shed over the existing slatted tank and construct adjoining storage shed, and (C) to construct a machinery shed and all associated works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 22182
10 Mar 2021Conditional
to construct a dormer type dwelling with a sewerage treatment unit, percolation area, erect new entrance walls and piers and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21142
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Aghagegna.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghagegna.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghagegna.
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, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Aghagegna, 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 the townland of Aghagegna.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Aghagegna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Aghagegna · Achadh na gCuigne
- Area
- 663,165 m² (66.32 ha, 163.87 acres)
- Civil parish
- Crosserlough, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlerahan
- Electoral division
- Graddum, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 589 people lived in 206 households in the Graddum electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cullow, Graddum, Latnadronagh, Portan, Rockfield, Sallaghill
- Placenames
- Aghagegna 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.