Aghalust
Aghalust is a townland in the civil parish of Ballymacormick, barony of Moydow, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is Achadh Loiste.
Parcel 56609
- Area
- 10,762 m² (1.08 ha, 2.66 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 19 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
- Aghalust
Planning applications on this parcel
16 Apr 2021Conditional
(a) demolition of existing derelict dwelling house and out-house (b) Removal of existing portacabin with septic tank and percolation area (c) proposed construction of a two storey type dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system with suitable polishing filter together with the reconstruction of existing entrance to service same & all ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Longford County Council, 21109
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
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- LF019-004 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level, low-lying pasture. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. c. 21m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with a shallow external fosse. The original entrance was not recognisable. A short distance to the E of the centre of the interior was a wide, shallow depression of unknown significance. On re-inspection in 1998 the rath was not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 23 November 2011
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 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.
- 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.
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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
- 20.1 ha
- 50 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 9,514 m² (0.95 ha, 2.35 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghalust, from 3,302 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres) to 120,523 m² (12.05 ha, 29.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Aghalust 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
16 Apr 2021Conditional
(a) demolition of existing derelict dwelling house and out-house (b) Removal of existing portacabin with septic tank and percolation area (c) proposed construction of a two storey type dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system with suitable polishing filter together with the reconstruction of existing entrance to service same & all ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Longford County Council, 21109
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 Aghalust.
Recorded monuments
- LF019-004 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level, low-lying pasture. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. c. 21m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with a shallow external fosse. The original entrance was not recognisable. A short distance to the E of the centre of the interior was a wide, shallow depression of unknown significance. On re-inspection in 1998 the rath was not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 23 November 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghalust.
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 Aghalust, 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 Aghalust.
- 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 Aghalust with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Aghalust · Achadh Loiste
- Area
- 201,376 m² (20.14 ha, 49.76 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballymacormick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moydow
- Electoral division
- Ardagh West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 509 people lived in 173 households in the Ardagh West electoral division. 89% 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
- Bawn, Cordivin, Gorteenagloon, Nappagh
- Placenames
- Aghalust 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.