Aghnaskea

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghnaskea, from 102 m² to 48,758 m² (4.88 ha, 12.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Aghnaskea 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.

• 14 Aug 2024Conditional

  to demolish an existing shed structure, construction of a new two bedroom, single storey guesthouse with associated living facilities on site and to the south of an existing protected structure, 43rd Lock House (RPS no. 55), to provide a new accessible parking space and bike parking while retaining the existing 2 no. parking spaces to the front of the site between the lock house and proposed guesthouse, and all associated site works including a new on site surface water soakaway. The development will provide an accessible approach, entry and circulation to and within the guesthouse

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2460173

• 4 Aug 2023Conditional

  the proposed construction of an extension to the rear of an existing single storey dwelling house which is listed as a protected structure/structures on the protected structures list of the Longford County Development Plan 2021-2027, i.e. RPS no. 55, and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2360100

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghnaskea.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Roman Catholic church on cruciform-plan, dated 1829, having three-bay elevations, single-bay transepts to the north and south and a single-bay chancel to the east end. Rendered bellcote with cross finial over to nave gable (west). Single-storey sacristy added to the east end and single-bay entrance porch to the west gable end. Pitched slate roofs, rendered chimneystack to sacristy. Painted roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course having carved limestone plaque to west elevation. Pointed arch window openings having stained glass windows and painted limestone sills. Pointed arch window opening to porch, west elevation, with lattice glazed stained glass window. Square-headed door openings to north elevation and porch having timber battened double doors. A-frame timber roof with struts to interior having rendered corbels. Gallery with cast-iron railings having quatrefoil motifs to parapet and cast-iron spiral staircase. Set slightly back from the road to the east of Killashee.

• Aghnaskea Bridge, bridge, 1810–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch canal accommodation bridge carrying small road over Royal Canal, built c. 1817. Round/elliptical-headed arch with dressed limestone voussoirs and ashlar limestone walls. Cut limestone string course at road level. Dressed limestone parapets with curving ends terminated in dressed limestone piers (on square-plan). Replacement concrete blocks to south parapet wall, east end. Located to the east of Killashee. Limestone flagging to embankment.

• 43rd Lock, lock, 1810–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Canal lock associated with Royal Canal, built c. 1815, consisting of pair of timber and steel breast gates with timber footboards and balance beams. Set within ashlar limestone lock chamber with ashlar limestone capstones with bevelled edges. Associated lock keeper's house (13311011) to the west. Located to the east of Killashee.

• 43rd Lock, lock keeper's house, 1810–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey lock keeper's house, built 1815, with single-storey flat-roofed extension to rear (west). Now in use as private house. Hipped natural slate roof with central rendered chimneystack and cut stone eaves course. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings, set in recessed segmental-headed arches, with cut stone sills and replacement windows. Central square-headed doorway to main elevation (west), set in recessed segmental-headed arch, having replacement door. Located adjacent to lock 43 (13311007) and to the east of Killashee.

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 Aghnaskea, 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Aghnaskea · Achadh na Sceach

Area

178,695 m² (17.87 ha, 44.16 acres)

Civil parish

Killashee, and its townlands

Barony

Moydow

Electoral division

Killashee, the unit of the census

Census 2022

487 people lived in 185 households in the Killashee electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 55% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyclare, Cloonsheerin, Killashee and Aghakeeran, Moygh

Placenames

Aghnaskea 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.