Aghadachor

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghadachor, from 1,475 m² to 488,076 m² (48.81 ha, 120.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Aghadachor 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.

• 15 Jan 2026N/a

  (1) REMOVAL OF EXISTING 6 NO. INCORRECTLY INSTALLED CONCRETE BASES, (2) REVISION OF THE DESIGN FOR ALL OF THE PODS AND REPOSITIONING OF 6 NO. PODS TO WHAT WAS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 22/51491, (3) OMISSION OF THE TENT CAMPING PITCHES AND CAMPERVAN CAMPING PITCHES PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 22/51491 AND (4) CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. PADDLE TENNIS COURTS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660036

• 1 Aug 2024Refused

  (1) REVISION OF POD DESIGNS TO WHAT WAS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 22/51491 AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. PADDLE TENNIS COURTS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461181

• 2 Jun 2023Conditional

  REVISIONS TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED DEVELOPMENT PLANNING REF NO. 22/51497. THE REVISIONS ARE AS FOLLOWS: (1) CREATION OF A NEW PATHWAY TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED SPA, GYM AND APARTMENTS, (2) CREATION OF A NEW ENTRANCE LOBBY TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED SPA, (3) OMISSION OF CANOPY FOR THE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED OUTDOOR GYM AREA AND OTHER MINOR ALTERATIONS TO ELEVATIONS AND (4) CONVERSION OF ADDITIONAL STORAGE SPACE TO SPA FACILITY TO WHAT WAS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED IN APPLICATION 22/51497. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350789

• 7 Sept 2022Conditional

  (1) CONVERSION OF AN EXISTING GROUND FLOOR SPORTS HALL TO CREATE STAFF FACILITIES, 3 NO. APARTMENTS, A RECEPTION AND A GYM INCLUDING THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO CREATE A COVERED OUTDOOR GYM, (2) CONVERSION OF EXISTING OFFICES AND STAFF FACILITIES AT FIRST FLOOR TO APARTMENTS AND TO PROVIDE AN EXTENSION AT FIRST FLOOR INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF DORMER WINDOWS WITHIN A PROPOSED MEZZANINE LEVEL CONSTRUCTED WITHIN THE EXISTING SPORT HALL TO CREATE 6 NO. APARTMENTS, CREATING A TOTAL OF 9 NO. APARTMENTS BETWEEN FIRST AND GROUND FLOOR, (3) CONVERSION OF EXISTING BASEMENT STORAGE AND EXTENSION OF THE SAME TO CREATE A SPA FACILITY INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION REQUIRED TO OPERATE THE SPA, (4) OTHER ANCILLARY WORKS WITH ALL THE ABOVE CONNECTING TO EXISTING ONSITE SEWAGE TREATMENT THAT WILL BE UPGRADED AS PART OF THE WORKS AT THE DONEGAL BOARDWALK RESORT. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251497

• 7 Sept 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A GLAMPING DEVELOPMENT WITH 10 NO. GLAMPING PODS, 5 NO. PITCHES FOR TENTS, 10 NO. SPACES FOR CAMPERVANS AND A RECEPTION BUILDING WITH SMALL SHOP AND CAFE, SHOWERS, TOILETS AND LAUNDRY FACILITIES AND OTHER ANCILLARY WORKS WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWAGE SYSTEM THAT WILL BE UPGRADED AS PART OF THE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251491

• 6 Feb 2017Conditional

  EXTENSION AND MINOR ALTERATIONS TO DWELLING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750146

• 27 Jan 2017N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION AND CARRY OUT MINOR ALTERATIONS TO DWELLING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750092

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Sheephaven SAC 001190
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Sheephaven 001190

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghadachor.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghadachor.

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).

Radon

The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Aghadachor.

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aghadachor.

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.

No address of the register names Aghadachor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Aghadachor

Area

1,344,494 m² (134.45 ha, 332.23 acres)

Civil parish

Mevagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Glen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glen electoral division: 262 people in 108 households; 83% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 48% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Creevagh, Drumdutton, Drumlackagh, Glenree

Placenames

Aghadachor 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.