# Aghadreenan, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clondavaddog, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,174,882 m² (217.49 ha, 537.43 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,216 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 13 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clondavaddog, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/clondavaddog.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Rosnakill, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 264 people lived in 99 households in the Rosnakill electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16070 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50010 - Centre: latitude 55.187847, longitude -7.658195 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghadreenan, from 146 m² to 407,376 m² (40.74 ha, 100.66 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1401185: 407,376 m² (40.74 ha, 100.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1401185.md - Parcel 1367824: 194,751 m² (19.48 ha, 48.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1367824.md - Parcel 1417421: 184,014 m² (18.4 ha, 45.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417421.md - Parcel 1423113: 134,921 m² (13.49 ha, 33.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423113.md - Parcel 1391630: 119,019 m² (11.9 ha, 29.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391630.md - Parcel 1401184: 117,565 m² (11.76 ha, 29.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1401184.md - Parcel 1367829: 106,777 m² (10.68 ha, 26.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1367829.md - Parcel 1329933: 98,440 m² (9.84 ha, 24.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329933.md - Parcel 1400056: 90,809 m² (9.08 ha, 22.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1400056.md - Parcel 1367911: 73,134 m² (7.31 ha, 18.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1367911.md - Parcel 1367828: 70,182 m² (7.02 ha, 17.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1367828.md - Parcel 1367909: 69,396 m² (6.94 ha, 17.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1367909.md - Parcel 1400055: 58,058 m² (5.81 ha, 14.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1400055.md - Parcel 1367910: 48,355 m² (4.84 ha, 11.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1367910.md - Parcel 4816910: 45,069 m² (4.51 ha, 11.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4816910.md - Parcel 1401182: 44,843 m² (4.48 ha, 11.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1401182.md - Parcel 1428913: 39,104 m² (3.91 ha, 9.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1428913.md - Parcel 1401183: 38,999 m² (3.9 ha, 9.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1401183.md - Parcel 5003631: 29,081 m² (2.91 ha, 7.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5003631.md - Parcel 1315468: 25,183 m² (2.52 ha, 6.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315468.md - Parcel 1387078: 23,131 m² (2.31 ha, 5.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387078.md - Parcel 1357399: 18,195 m² (1.82 ha, 4.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357399.md - Parcel 1423111: 15,574 m² (1.56 ha, 3.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423111.md - Parcel 1419321: 15,278 m² (1.53 ha, 3.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419321.md - Parcel 4816907: 13,933 m² (1.39 ha, 3.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4816907.md - Parcel 4816868: 10,012 m² (1 ha, 2.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4816868.md - Parcel 1301859: 9,797 m² (0.98 ha, 2.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301859.md - Parcel 4817024: 6,216 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4817024.md - Parcel 5737795: 5,248 m² (0.52 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5737795.md - Parcel 5620977: 5,131 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5620977.md - Parcel 1402950: 5,049 m² (0.5 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402950.md - Parcel 5660715: 4,863 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5660715.md - Parcel 1409226: 4,698 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409226.md - Parcel 1424274: 4,192 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424274.md - Parcel 1376837: 3,863 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376837.md - Parcel 4816837: 3,322 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4816837.md - Parcel 1398640: 3,164 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1398640.md - Parcel 1398639: 3,162 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1398639.md - Parcel 1366858: 2,895 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1366858.md - Parcel 4816905: 2,881 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4816905.md - Parcel 1366859: 2,672 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1366859.md - Parcel 1380724: 2,632 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380724.md - Parcel 1392349: 2,544 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392349.md - Parcel 4725633: 1,948 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4725633.md - Parcel 3659007: 1,947 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659007.md - Parcel 4864694: 1,852 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4864694.md - Parcel 1401181: 1,638 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1401181.md - Parcel 1373179: 1,385 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373179.md - Parcel 4817065: 898 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4817065.md - Parcel 1321800: 874 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321800.md - Parcel 4910403: 615 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4910403.md - Parcel 4816836: 550 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4816836.md - Parcel 4816845: 536 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4816845.md - Parcel 1332041: 263 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1332041.md - Parcel 1401180: 146 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1401180.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Aghadreenan in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 13 applications, newest first. - 4 Feb 2026, Donegal County Council 2650010: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2650010/0 - 18 Sept 2025, Donegal County Council 2561615: Conditional. Permission. (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING HOUSE DAMAGED DUE TO DEFECTIVE (MICA) PRECAST CONCRETE BLOCKS, (2) RE-CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALTERATIONS FROM THAT OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. THE RELEVANT ASSOCIATED REPLACEMENT WORKS WILL BE CONNECTED TO THE EXISTING SITE SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561615/0 - 10 Jun 2025, Donegal County Council 2560956: Refused. Outline permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF TWO STOREY DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560956/0 - 11 Sept 2024, Donegal County Council 2461407: Refused. Outline permission, 6 homes. CONSTRUCTION OF 6 NO. SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES ALONG WITH ACCESS TO SITE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. SITE WORKS TO INCLUDE THE CREATION OF A BUFFER ZONE FOR PUBLIC USE IN THE FORM OF GREEN LANDSCAPING. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461407/0 - 5 Sept 2024, Donegal County Council 2461373: N/a. Outline permission, 6 homes. CONSTRUCTION OF 6 NO. SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES ALONG WITH ACCESS TO SITE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. SITE WORKS TO INCLUDE THE CREATION OF A BUFFER ZONE FOR PUBLIC USE IN THE FORM OF GREEN LANDSCAPING. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461373/0 - 5 Jul 2024, Donegal County Council 2461029: Conditional. Permission. ROOFING EXISTING SILAGE PIT TO PROVIDE EXTENSION TO EXISTING SLATTED CATTLE SHED. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461029/0 - 22 Sept 2023, Donegal County Council 2351428: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (1) RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF EXISTING DWELLING, (2) REMOVAL OF EXISTING ENTRANCE AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW ENTRANCE TO SERVE 2 NO. DWELLINGS, AND (3) CONSTRUCTION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, SOIL FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351428/0 - 4 Oct 2021, Donegal County Council 2151965: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2151965/0 - 6 Jul 2021, Donegal County Council 2151351: N/a. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2151351/0 - 19 Jul 2018, Donegal County Council 1851113: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851113/0 - 6 Jul 2018, Donegal County Council 1851052: N/a. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH PACKAGED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851052/0 - 28 Jun 2018, Donegal County Council 1850998: N/a. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850998/0 - 16 Nov 2017, Donegal County Council 1751731: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED AND CONSTRUCTION OF A SILAGE PIT. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1751731/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Aghadreenan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG017-016: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG017-016----. Internal diam. c. 20m ENE-WSW, c. 18m NNW-SSE. A subcircular earthen platform from 1.5m to 2.5m above the surrounding land. A low bank up to 1.5m in height circles the perimeter. There are two gaps in the bank, a 2m gap to the E and a 2m modern gap to the S. There is some modern disturbance in the interior. The site is located in good pasture land on a N-S ridge with wide views. There are steep falls to the E and W. 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 - DG017-017: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG017-017----. A standing stone .8m high × 0.5m wide; NW-SE. The date 1819 is incised on it. It is said locally that it was erected in the 17th century by the Dill family. It is also said to be an ogham stone but there is nothing visible to support this claim. Situated in a prominent position close to the crest of Crockastoller hill. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - House, 1800–1840, Regional interest, registry number 40901716, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40901716. Detached three-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular house with attic level, built c. 1820, having central flat-roofed windbreak porch to the front elevation (south-east), single-storey flat-roofed extension to the north-east, and with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed addition to the rear (north-west). Now out of use. Pitched flax thatch roof having overhanging eaves, metal pegs below eaves level and to gable ends for securing ropes over thatch, and having rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends (north-east and south-west). Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window opening having replacement timber casement windows and painted concrete sills. Square headed door opening to windbreak porch having battened timber door. Set back from road in own grounds to the east of Rosnakill and to the south end of the Fanad Peninsula. Detached four-bay single-storey outbuilding\byre to the north-west having pitched flax thatched roof with pegs below eaves level, rubble stone walls, and square-headed doorways with battened timber doors. Additional single-storey outbuildings to site having pitched corrugated with roof with raised rendered verges to gable ends, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Site approached via narrow tree-lined laneway from the east. Gravel forecourt to south-east. - Ardroe Cottage, house, 1760–1800, Regional interest, registry number 40901770, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40901770. Detached three-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular house with attic level, built c. 1780, having central flat-roofed windbreak porch to the front elevation. Recently restored and now in use as a holiday home\rental property. Pitched thatch roof having pegs below eaves level and to gable ends for securing ropes over thatch, and having rendered chimneystacks and raised rendered verges to the gable ends. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings having six-over-six and six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway to windbreak porch having replacement battened timber door. Set back from road in own grounds to the east of Rosnakill and to the south end of the Fanad Peninsula. House reached by hedgerow-lined avenue from the east. Gardens and gravel forecourt to site. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Aghadreenan, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aghadreenan. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aghadreenan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aghadreenan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aghadreenan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Aghadreenan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghadaghly: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aghadaghly.md - Ballykinard: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballykinard.md - Ballymagahy South: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballymagahy-south.md - Ballymagowan Upper: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballymagowan-upper.md - Ballynashannagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballynashannagh.md - Cloghfin: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cloghfin-50644.md - Duntinny: https://everytownland.com/donegal/duntinny.md - Knockbrack: https://everytownland.com/donegal/knockbrack-51632.md - Rathgory: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rathgory.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aghadreenan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/aghadreenan