Aghalour
Aghalour is a townland in the civil parish of Tibohine, barony of Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 263.4 ha
- 651 acres
- Land parcels
- 85
- registered freehold, median 19,763 m² (1.98 ha, 4.88 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
85 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghalour, from 239 m² to 204,801 m² (20.48 ha, 50.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Aghalour 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
24 Apr 2024Conditional
Planning Permission to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage along with proprietary treatment system and polishing filter and carryout all ancillary site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460186
5 Nov 2021Conditional
Permission to construct new waste water treatment system and percolation area along with associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21628
5 Jul 2021Conditional
Retention Permission to retain site boundaries and associated site works including entrance, driveways and septic tank which differ from those granted under planning reference PD/97/314 at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 21376
2 Jun 2020Conditional
Permission sought to construct extension to dwelling house along with upgrading of septic tank and percolation and associated site-works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20194
18 Dec 2019N/a
to construct extension to dwelling house along with associated siteworks at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19657
20 Nov 2019Conditional
to construct new slatted shed together with all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19604
15 Nov 2019Conditional
for demolition of existing dwelling house (semi derelict) and for erection of new dwelling house with proprietary sewerage treatment plant and percolation area and ancillary site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19596
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Aghalour.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghalour.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghalour.
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 Aghalour, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aghalour.
- 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 Aghalour with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Aghalour
- Area
- 2,633,974 m² (263.4 ha, 650.87 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tibohine, and its townlands
- Barony
- Frenchpark
- Electoral division
- Loughglinn, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 780 people lived in 328 households in the Loughglinn electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annaghmaghera, Cloonard, Cloonbunny, Clooncraffield, Cloonree, Coolagarry, Loughglinn, Tawnyrover
- Placenames
- Aghalour 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.