Aghnashannagh

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghnashannagh, from 917 m² to 334,498 m² (33.45 ha, 82.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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.

• R2Residential (Existing residential)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C1.1Light Industrial/Commercial/Servicing (Commercial, retail)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Recreation/Amenity/Green Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 13 Aug 2026N/a

  the construction of a six bay slatted shed with creep area including all other associated site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2634

• 8 Dec 2025Conditional

  development consists of converting an existing garage into habitable space, block up a kitchen window, a new sliding door to kitchen and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560289

• 5 Jan 2017Conditional

  of previously constructed domestic garage and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 172

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 Aghnashannagh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghnashannagh.

Architectural heritage

• Mill Park House, mill (water), 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Former corn mill complex, built c. 1800 and extended c. 1860, comprising two multiple-bay two-storey rubble limestone mill buildings. Now in use as domestic outbuildings associated with former mill house (Mill Park House). Multiple-bay two-storey mill building to the north with pitched natural slate roof having a rendered chimneystack to the west gable end. Rubble limestone walls with square-headed window and door openings having timber battened doors and cut limestone voussoirs. Flight of stone steps to centre to main elevation (south). Segmental-headed carriage arch opening to north of steps having cobbled floor to interior and exterior. Multiple-bay two-storey mill building to south of complex, built c. 1800 and altered c. 1860, having gabled bay to the center of the north elevation and rubble limestone exterior steps to the west end of north elevation. Pitched natural slate roof with half-hipped natural slate roof to projecting bay. Rubble limestone walls with square-headed openings having red brick surrounds and timber doors. Square-headed window opening to projecting bay at first floor level with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window, limestone sill and red brick surround. Former segmental-arched opening to projecting bay at ground floor level, now partially infilled and having square-headed door opening, with red brick voussoirs and surround. Outbuilding to site with pitched corrugated-metal roof, painted rendered walls, square-headed opening with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window and square-headed opening with timber battened double doors. Detached four-bay two-storey former miller's house to east of site, with gable-fronted porch to front elevation, glass house to southwest elevation and single-bay two-storey return to rear (north). Now in use as private house. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Decorative timber bargeboard to porch. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth render plinth course. Square-headed openings with limestone sills and replacement timber windows. Square-headed opening with timber battened half-door. Set back from road in own grounds to the north of Ballinalee. Rubble limestone boundary walls to road-frontage having cut limestone gate posts to entrance. Rubble limestone walls to river bank (west) with rubble limestone piers having carved limestone cap. Mill stones to site. Former mill pond across road to the east. Millrace ran across south of site from east to west, no longer extant.

• Ballinalee Bridge, bridge, 1850–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over Camlin River, built c. 1865 and possibly incorporating the fabric of an earlier bridge to site c. 1780. Constructed of coursed rock-faced limestone with cut limestone voussoirs having rock-faced finish to segmental-headed arch and with rusticated limestone parapet walls having rock-faced limestone coping over. Extended to northwest with concrete span. Located to the north 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 Aghnashannagh, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Aghnashannagh · Achadh na Seannach

Area

1,568,608 m² (156.86 ha, 387.61 acres)

Civil parish

Clonbroney, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Ballinalee, the unit of the census

Census 2022

648 people lived in 253 households in the Ballinalee electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghaward, Ballinalee or Saintjohnstown, Derryneel, Kilshruley, Kiltyclogh, Leitrim, Soran

Placenames

Aghnashannagh 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.