Aghaboy

136 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghaboy, from 249 m² to 130,473 m² (13.05 ha, 32.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 54 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 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.

• 21 Nov 2025N/a

  the proposed construction of two single-storey extensions to the rear of an existing single-storey dwelling house, together with all associated and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560273

• 12 May 2025Conditional

  proposed construction of a two story type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560090

• 12 Apr 2024Conditional

  the proposed renovation of existing dwelling to demolish single storey attached shed, front porch and reinstated with new porch to front inclusive of single storey extension to side and single storey extension to rear. New boundary fence to be erected as per accompanying drawings. Installation of a proprietary treatment system with polishing filter and raised percolation area inclusive of all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460070

• 15 Nov 2023Conditional

  proposed demolition of existing derelict single storey type dwelling house together with the proposed construction of a residential development of 12 no. dwelling houses consisting of 8 no. three bedroom two storey semi-detached type dwelling houses of which there are two different types, 4 no. two bedroom two storey terraced type dwelling houses, proposed entrance, access road, green open space, boundary fences/walls, proposed connections to the existing foul sewer & surface water networks and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 12 homes · Longford County Council, 2360209

• 21 Jul 2023Conditional

  proposed change of use of existing domestic garage into a food preparation outlet and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2360090

• 1 Jun 2023Conditional

  re-construct and extend dwelling house and to upgrade existing septic tank with a new sewerage system and a treatment plant, to provide secondary and tertiary treatment, provide new entrance, and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2388

• 14 Dec 2022Conditional

  the proposed construction of a two storey extension to the rear of existing two storey type dwelling house previously granted full planning permission under planning reference number PL04/544 and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 22283

• 16 Sept 2020N/a

  proposed construction of a two storey type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable wastewater treatment system with polishing filter area & all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 20207

• 20 Aug 2020Conditional

  proposed demolition of existing derelict single storey type dwelling house with outhouse buildings together with the proposed construction of 4 No two bedroom single storey semi-detached type dwelling houses, entrance access road, green open space, boundary fences/walls, proposed connections to the existing foul sewer & surface water networks and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 4 homes · Longford County Council, 20186

• 31 Oct 2018Conditional

  erect an extension to dwelling house including all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18244

• 17 May 2018Conditional

  proposed stables, sand arena, new agricultural entrance and ancillary site where it is now proposed to relocate and retain one single entrance to the site, amendments to stables layout and elevations, relocation of sand arena and provision of hard surface area to include bedding/manure storage and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18101

• 1 May 2018Conditional

  of a single storey living room extension built onto the south elevation of an existing dwelling house and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 1890

• 30 Nov 2017Refused

  for the proposed Retention of Existing Agricultural Entrance and all ancillary works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 17298

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

• LF009-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 42.5m) enclosed by a very wide bank of earth and stone (Wth c. 9m; H 0.5-0.9m) and a wide external fosse (Wth 3-6m; D 0.4-1.5m). A report in 1990 (SMR file) recorded two more banks and a second fosse, all of which have since been levelled. It suggested that the original entrance may have been at E. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 22 November 2011

• LF009-019001 Enclosure
  Description

  In level pasture. A large oval area (84m NW–SE; 75.5 NE–SW) enclosed at NW and from N–E–SSE by a much-denuded bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.2-7m; H 0.3-1m). From S–W–WNW the bank has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary. At its external base at E is a shallow fosse (Wth 4.3m; D 0.2m). The original entrance is not recognisable. Within the SE quadrant of the interior are the remains of a rectangular house site (LF009-019002-). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 22 November 2011

• LF009-019002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Within the SE quadrant of the interior of an enclosure (LF009-019001-) are the remains of a rectangular house site (ext. dims. 15.5m E-W; 5.5m N-S) defined by the grassed-over foundation courses of stone walls (H 0.2-0.3m; wall T 2m). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 15 June 2012

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over tributary of the Camlin River, built c. 1860. Constructed of coursed rock-faced limestone with rounded dressed limestone coping over parapet walls. Segmental-headed arch with rock-faced limestone voussoirs. Rock-faced string course at road level. Terminating piers to either side of arch having rock-faced coping over with stepped dressed edges. Located to the west/southwest of Ballinalee.

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 Aghaboy, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Aghaboy · Achadh Buí

Area

1,796,199 m² (179.62 ha, 443.85 acres)

Civil parish

Killoe, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Aghaboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

687 people lived in 243 households in the Aghaboy electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clontumpher, Enybegs, Esker South, Killeter, Kilnacarrow, Oghil, Rhine

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.