Aghagower
Aghagower is a townland in the civil parish of Fuerty, barony of Athlone North, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 296.1 ha
- 732 acres
- Land parcels
- 71
- registered freehold, median 19,469 m² (1.95 ha, 4.81 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghagower, from 907 m² to 303,641 m² (30.36 ha, 75.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 52 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
No zone of a development plan covers Aghagower 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 Oct 2024Conditional
Permission to (i) construct a slatted shed and creep in existing farmyard (ii) raise part of roof on existing shed and all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460469
27 Sept 2024N/a
Permission to construct a slatted shed and creep in existing farmyard and all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460458
19 Oct 2018Conditional
Full planning permission to erect 16 No. 100 watt LED lights on 6.0m high lighting standards and associated site works on yet to be constructed walkway previously granted planning permission under planning permission Ref. PD/18/182 at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18529
12 Oct 2018Conditional
to erect a dwelling house and domestic garage/fuel store and construct a septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18516
19 Apr 2018Conditional
Full planning permission to construct a spectator stand and walking track around perimeter of playing pitch and associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18182
23 Jun 2017Conditional
to renovate and extend the existing dwelling house and all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17285
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 Protection Area: River Suck Callows SPA 004097
- Natural Heritage Area: Suck River Callows NHA 000222
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghagower.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghagower.
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
- 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, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1237 (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
- Aghagower, Castlecoote5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Aghagower
- Area
- 2,961,194 m² (296.12 ha, 731.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- Fuerty, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone North
- Electoral division
- Athleague West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 610 people lived in 245 households in the Athleague West electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghagad, Corderryhugh, Creemully and Aghagad Beg, Creggauns (Co. Galway), Farranykelly, Gorteencloogh or Corra More, Muff
- Placenames
- Aghagower 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.