Aghrafinigan

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghrafinigan, from 35 m² to 123,396 m² (12.34 ha, 30.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P6Zone 2 (Other primary sector uses)
  Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 28 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P6Zone 1A (Other primary sector uses)
  Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Zone 1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

No planning application touches the townland of Aghrafinigan in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Aghrafinigan.

Recorded monuments

• RO003-043 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a SW-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered platform (dims 31m E-W; 26m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.7-0.8m N-E to 1.2m S-W). There is no visible bank, fosse or identifiable original entrance, but the perimeter is truncated by a NNE-SSW field drain at SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO003-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Towards the top of the S-facing slope of a drumlin. Circular overgrown area (diam. c. 28m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3-4m; int. H 0.3-1m; ext. H 0.2-0.6m) NW-NE and a scarp (H 0.4-0.5m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse, but the entrance (Wth 1.5m) is at E (Gannon 1972). Rath (RO003-045----) is c. 150m to the SSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO003-045 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Towards the bottom of the SW-facing slope of a drumlin, c. 70m from the NE shore of rectangular bay (dims. c. 600m NE-SW; c. 350m NW-SE) on the NE shore of Lough Key. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 28m) defined by a scarp down to the interior (H 0.4m) NW-NE and the slope of the drumlin elsewhere. It is truncated by a N-S field bank at E. Rath (RO003-044----) is c. 150m to the NNE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghrafinigan.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Aghrafinigan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Aghrafinigan

Area

1,153,981 m² (115.4 ha, 285.15 acres)

Civil parish

Ardcarn, and its townlands

Barony

Boyle

Electoral division

Kilbryan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilbryan electoral division: 400 people in 144 households; 89% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barcullin, Blackfallow, Bodorragha, Clerragh, Drumcormick, Smutternagh, Woodfield

Placenames

Aghrafinigan 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.