Aghareville Upper

Area

12,865 m² (1.29 ha, 3.18 acres)

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

Aghareville Upper

Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.

• MA091-022 Moated site
  Description

  In damp pasture, located on level slightly wet ground with gently rising ground to SW. Views not extensive, best to NE where ground falls away gradually. Depicted on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an oval embanked enclosure, and on the 1920 edition as a rectangular hachured enclosure bordered at NW by a field boundary. Raised trapezoidal platform (43m NW–SE; 20.5m NE–SW at SE end, 28.4m at NW end) defined by a scarp (Wth slope 2.6m at NE, 0.7m at SW; H 1.6m at NE, 0.65m at SW), which is higher/more substantial on the NE side to compensate for the natural fall of ground. At the base of the scarp, an external fosse (Wth 2.5m at SW) is evident on the SE and SW sides as a shallow depression, marked by a growth of yellow flag irises. At the NW, the fosse has been subsumed into the line of a later field drain (Wth 2.6m, base 1.4m; D 1.3m). Outside the field drain, a low rise in ground level extends to NW for c. 15m. An ephemeral rise bordering the outer edge of the fosse on the SW side may indicate a levelled external bank. The level interior exhibits traces of cultivation ridges on a NNW–SSE axis. The original entrance is unclear. There appears to be a break in the fosse at the SE corner but there is no evidence of a corresponding entrance feature on the platform itself. This monument may be a moated site or form of earthwork castle. Interestingly, a possible castle (MA091-034----) is shown in roughly this area on a 1720 estate map (NLI Ms 2707). Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 February 2022

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

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.