Adderville
Townland in the civil parish of Clonmany, barony of Inishowen East, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 305.8 ha
- 756 acres
- Land parcels
- 124
- registered freehold, median 5,719 m² (0.57 ha, 1.41 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
124 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Adderville, from 63 m² to 292,767 m² (29.28 ha, 72.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 70 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Adderville 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
8 Jul 2026Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT HOUSE AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF SLATTED CATTLE SHED WITH EFFLUENT STORAGE TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2650097
2 Jun 2026Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE DUE TO DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 02/4081 AND (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661010
5 May 2026N/a
ATTIC CONVERSION AND ROOF LIGHTS TO DWELLING
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660803
17 Feb 2026Conditional
(1) FIRST FLOOR CONVERSION FROM STORAGE TO LIVING SPACE AND ADDITIONAL AREA AT GROUND FLOOR IN EXISTING DWELLING AND (2) ADDTIONAL AREA AT GARAGE, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660215
6 Feb 2026N/a
FIRST FLOOR CONVERSION FROM STORAGE TO LIVING SPACE AND ADDITIONAL AREA AT GROUND FLOOR IN EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660147
8 Jul 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF EXISTING DWELLING TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461037
26 Oct 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351634
7 Feb 2023N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW STORAGE SHED TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350129
5 Aug 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251336
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bulbin Mountain 000120
Recorded monuments
- DG010-033001 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Internal diam. 50m. A modern curving stone wall seems to reflect the single-ringed enclosure shown on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map. A children's burial ground is reported to be in the vicinity and probably at this site (M.R. Calhoun). The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
- DG010-033002 Children's burial ground
Description
A modern curving stone wall seems to reflect the single-ringed enclosure (DG010-033001-) shown on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map. A children's burial ground is reported to be in the vicinity and probably at this site (M.R. Calhoun). The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Adderville.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1978 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Adderville with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Adderville
- Area
- 3,058,217 m² (305.82 ha, 755.7 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonmany, and its townlands
- Barony
- Inishowen East
- Electoral division
- Straid, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Straid electoral division: 1,298 people in 452 households; 80% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clonmany Glebe, Straid
- Placenames
- Adderville 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.