Aghnagore
Aghnagore is a townland in the civil parish of Killashee, barony of Longford, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is Áth na nGabhar.
Parcel 84321
- Area
- 480 m²
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Aghnagore
Planning applications on this parcel
23 Mar 2022Conditional
and completion of existing substantially completed garage which is similar in design to what was granted full planning permission under planning reference number PL 21/227 and all ancillary works
Retention · Longford County Council, 2267
30 Jul 2021Conditional
proposed construction of a domestic garage to service existing two storey type dwelling house and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 21227
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1637 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 157.1 ha
- 388 acres
- Land parcels
- 108
- registered freehold, median 3,882 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Residential
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
108 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghnagore, from 13 m² to 490,219 m² (49.02 ha, 121.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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
- R2Residential (Existing residential)
LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 17 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2Town Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Recreation/Amenity/Green Space (Open space, park)
LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M1Canal Redevelopment Area (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 May 2026Conditional
to erect a dwelling house, and to install a treatment unit to provide secondary and tertiary treatment and all associated works
Outline permission · Longford County Council, 2626
22 Feb 2024Conditional
the demolition of an existing single storey derelict property, and the construction of a single storey dwelling with the installation of a sewerage treatment unit and tertiary treatment area, the construction of boundary fences, walls & entrance gates, connection to existing services, and all other associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2460031
13 Feb 2023Conditional
the demolition of an attached outhouse to the north eastern side of an existing dwelling house together with the construction of a single storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling and all other associated site works
Permission · Longford County Council, 2330
23 Mar 2022Conditional
and completion of existing substantially completed garage which is similar in design to what was granted full planning permission under planning reference number PL 21/227 and all ancillary works
Retention · Longford County Council, 2267
30 Jul 2021Conditional
proposed construction of a domestic garage to service existing two storey type dwelling house and all ancillary works
Permission · Longford County Council, 21227
10 Sept 2020Conditional
to construct an extension to an existing 2-bedroomed cottage including the carrying out of ancillary site works & connection to existing services and the retention of works previously carried out to an existing haybarn, consisting of the provision of a ground floor apartment and first floor home office
Permission · Longford County Council, 20200
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Forbes Complex SAC 001818
- Special Protection Area: Ballykenny-Fisherstown Bog SPA 004101
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Forbes Complex 001818
Recorded monuments
- LF013-071 Structure - peatland
Description
Worked wood noted during field survey in 1989 (pers. comm. B. Raftery). The evidence is insufficient to warrant acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF013-072 Structure - peatland
Description
Worked wood noted during field survey in 1989 (pers. comm. B. Raftery). The evidence is insufficient to warrant acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF013-073 Structure - peatland
Description
Worked wood noted during field survey in 1989 (pers. comm. B. Raftery). The evidence is insufficient to warrant acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF013-074 Road - class 3 togher
Description
Noted during field survey in 1989, orientated NE-SW (pers. comm. B. Raftery). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
- Gates/railings/walls, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Gateway, erected c. 1830, comprising a pair of cut limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having moulded limestone capstones with cornice detail and with wrought-iron double-leaf vehicular gates. Roughly dressed limestone boundary walls to either side (east and west) having rubble limestone crenellations over. Located adjacent to main road to the east of Cloondara. Forms rear entrance to two-storey house to the north (13307023).
- House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1890, having single-bay porch with pitched roof to the centre of the front elevation (south), and extension with pitched roof to rear (north). Now disused. Hipped natural slate roof with central rendered brick chimneystack. Pitched slate roof to porch, with timber bargeboards and spear finial. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and painted sills. Square-headed door opening to porch with replacement timber panelled door having plain overlight. Rendered garden walls to garden to front of house. Set back from road in own grounds, with farm buildings to rear. Located to the east of Cloondara. Gateway to the south (13307022).
- Kiln, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding single-bay lime kiln, built c. 1820, on a square-plan and tapers to top. Now out of use. Constructed of coursed limestone rubble. Segmental-headed arch to front (south), the former oven aperture, with dressed limestone voussoirs and cut stone lintel. Former loading bay to top of kiln, now overgrown. Earth embankment to rear (south). Set in a farmyard, with recent boundary walls, to the southeast of Cloondara.
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 Aghnagore, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1637 (ZIP).
- 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 Aghnagore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Aghnagore · Áth na nGabhar
- Area
- 1,570,568 m² (157.06 ha, 388.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killashee, and its townlands
- Barony
- Longford
- Electoral division
- Cloondara, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 718 people lived in 265 households in the Cloondara electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Aghnagore 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.