Aghnacor

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghnacor, from 2,329 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres) to 88,250 m² (8.83 ha, 21.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Aghnacor 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.

• 26 Jun 2026Conditional

  for a single storey extension and the construction of retaining structures to the rear of an existing dwelling house, landscaping works and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660358

• 28 Jun 2023Conditional

  erect (a) dormer dwelling, new entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area, detached domestic garage and associated site works (b) permission to decommission septic tank to existing dwelling and install wastewater treatment system and percolation area at revised location

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2360071

• 27 Jul 2022Conditional

  to erect fully serviced part two-storey, part single storey dwelling with detached domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment facilities & all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 22305

• 13 Apr 2021Conditional

  construct a three bay slatted shed with slurry holding tank underneath and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 21208

• 2 May 2017Conditional

  to erect single storey extension to side of existing dwelling and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17175

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 Aghnacor.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghnacor.

Architectural heritage

• Derrylane Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built 1833, comprising three-bay nave with bellcote over gabled front elevation, advanced gabled entrance porch, single-bay single-storey lean-to vestry to rear with single-bay extension to west. Pitched slate roof with cut stone barges to gables, sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls with cut stone clasping buttresses surmounted by pinnacles to front elevation and corbelled cut-stone bellcote with chamfered corners surmounted by pinnacle. Cut stone surrounds to slit openings beneath verges of gable apexes. Dressed stone quoins, plinth course and vents surrounds beneath nave windows. Pointed arch dressed stone window surrounds with chamfered reveals and sills, having twin-light metal windows with lattice glazing and cinquefoil marigold roundel over. Red brick relieving arch to chancel window in north gable having stained glass of 1968. Red brick dressings to square-headed vestry windows. Metal lattice window to vestry, with sash window to vestry extension. Square-headed lattice window to side of porch. Pointed arch cut stone door opening with replacement sheeted timber doors to entrance porch, approached by steps. Full-height interior with circle-motif cast-iron roof trusses, timber purlins and rafters, carved timber pews, altar, pulpit and altar screen decorated with trefoil and quatrefoil motifs, organ of 1968. Set back from the road with low rubble stone boundary wall built 2001. Square-profile ashlar limestone gate pier with shallow pyramidal caps, flanking wrought-iron gates. Surrounded by graveyard with cut stone grave markers and grave slabs.

• Rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former rectory, built c.1880, with two-bay side elevations. Now in use as private dwelling. Hipped slate roof with paired rendered chimneystacks, overhanging eaves supported by carved timber eaves brackets. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with smooth render surrounds and chamfered sills, having six-over-one timber sash windows with concave horns. Segmental-headed entrance with chamfer-stop arris, recessed panelled timber door with grooved panels and bolection mouldings, multiple pane segmental-headed overlight, and multiple pane half-sidelights. Opens to flight of cut stone steps. Yard to rear accessed through tall gate piers of dressed stone having pyramidal capstones. Outbuildings having lean-to slate roofs, rubble stone walls, and brick-dressed openings. Low screen walls to entrance flanking earlier roughcast rendered circular-profile piers and wrought-iron gates.

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 Aghnacor, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Aghnacor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Aghnacor

Area

641,894 m² (64.19 ha, 158.62 acres)

Civil parish

Killashandra, and its townlands

Barony

Tullyhunco

Electoral division

Springfield, the unit of the census

Census 2022

173 people lived in 72 households in the Springfield electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bohora, Condry, Corran, Derrylane, Drumbullion, Drumkilroosk, Tully

Placenames

Aghnacor 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.