Aghantrah

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghantrah, from 10 m² to 272,354 m² (27.24 ha, 67.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Aghantrah 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.

• 1 Sept 2021Conditional

  construction of a 107 Sq.M 2 storey, 3 bedroomed house, installation of new waste water treatment system, use of existing vehicular access and extension of same and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21255

• 14 Jul 2020Conditional

  to dispose of materials which will be inert materials, soils & subsoil on the lands to which this application relates so as to raise the existing ground level by a maximum of two meters, creation of entrance with access road all associated ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 20152

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

• LF018-008 Enclosure
  Description

  In wet, low-lying pasture immediately S of a NW-flowing stream. Not indicated on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a largely levelled, raised circular area (diam. c. 20m), which was delimited by a fosse. The original entrance was not recognisable. Further levelling has occurred and the monument is no longer visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Aghantrah Bridge, bridge, 1820–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch humpbacked canal accommodation bridge carrying road over Royal Canal (Longford Branch), built c. 1829. Round/elliptical-headed arch with dressed ashlar limestone voussoirs and dressed limestone masonry to barrel. Dressed limestone spandrel walls with cut limestone string course at road/deck level. Dressed ashlar limestone parapets with curving ends terminated in dressed ashlar limestone piers (on square-plan). Dressed ashlar limestone coping over parapet walls. Rubble stone construction to inner faces of parapet walls. Towpath to east bank of canal. Dressed limestone retaining walls to canal banks (north and south). Located to the east of Killashee.

• Bridge, aqueduct, 1825–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch canal bridge/aqueduct carrying Royal Canal (Longford Branch) over tributary of the Fallan River, built c. 1829. Canal now dry and in use as a footpath/road for farm access. Round/elliptical-headed arch with dressed ashlar limestone voussoirs and dressed limestone masonry to barrel. Squared and coursed limestone rubble spandrel walls. Spandrel walls curves outward to the base in concave curve. Projecting rock-faced limestone walls with dressed limestone coping to abutments, forming ledges, to either side of arch (running along arch). Modern timber fences to parapets. Located to the southwest of Longford Town.

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 Aghantrah, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Aghantrah · Achadh an tSratha

Area

722,420 m² (72.24 ha, 178.51 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacormick, and its townlands

Barony

Moydow

Electoral division

Moydow, the unit of the census

Census 2022

802 people lived in 268 households in the Moydow electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyclare, Carrowmanagh, Cloonsheerin, Gorteenboy, Gowlan, Newtown, Sharvoge

Placenames

Aghantrah 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.