# Aghafoy, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Templecarn, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 490,160 m² (49.02 ha, 121.12 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,979 m² (1.1 ha, 2.71 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Templecarn, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/templecarn.md - Barony: Tirhugh - Electoral division: Pettigoe, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Pettigoe electoral division: 368 people in 170 households; 76% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14174 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50011 - Centre: latitude 54.547566, longitude -7.84873 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghafoy, from 13 m² to 112,471 m² (11.25 ha, 27.79 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1357059: 112,471 m² (11.25 ha, 27.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357059.md - Parcel 1357972: 72,695 m² (7.27 ha, 17.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357972.md - Parcel 1391595: 50,833 m² (5.08 ha, 12.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391595.md - Parcel 1424368: 42,502 m² (4.25 ha, 10.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424368.md - Parcel 1427113: 36,016 m² (3.6 ha, 8.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427113.md - Parcel 1316015: 35,418 m² (3.54 ha, 8.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1316015.md - Parcel 1419405: 33,215 m² (3.32 ha, 8.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419405.md - Parcel 1310677: 32,153 m² (3.22 ha, 7.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310677.md - Parcel 1362180: 17,325 m² (1.73 ha, 4.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362180.md - Parcel 1321209: 4,634 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321209.md - Parcel 1394301: 4,114 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394301.md - Parcel 1314937: 3,938 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1314937.md - Parcel 1353130: 2,773 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1353130.md - Parcel 5609313: 678 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5609313.md - Parcel 5801014: 374 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5801014.md - Parcel 5888488: 287 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5888488.md - Parcel 5609317: 69 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5609317.md - Parcel 5801015: 13 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5801015.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Aghafoy 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) 1 application, newest first. - 4 Jul 2019, Donegal County Council 1951023: N/a. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A PART SINGLE STOREY/PART TWO STOREY DWELLING, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951023/0 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 Aghafoy. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghafoy. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Outbuilding, 1860–1900, Regional interest, registry number 40850032, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40850032. Attached single-storey with attic level outbuilding, built c. 1880, comprising two adjoining parallel gable-fronted single-storey outbuildings. Now in use as agricultural outbuilding. Pitched natural slate and corrugated-metal roofs having cut stone eaves courses and with red brick chimneystacks with ashlar coping over to the south-east gable end. Irregularly-coursed and coursed squared rubble stone walls having flush tooled block-and-start surrounds to the corners. Square-headed window openings with red brick voussoirs, cut stone sills and timber louvered vents. Square-headed door openings having red brick voussoirs and with either sliding timber battened doors or modern sheet metal doors. Square-headed integral carriage-arches to the south-east gable end of both buildings having sliding corrugated-metal clad doors. Set back from main road to the rear of altered house/farmhouse (not in survey) and in a complex of multi-period outbuildings. Located in the rural countryside to the west of Pettigoe, and to the north of Rosefield Cottage (40850033). Single-storey outbuilding to the north/north-east. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 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: Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aghafoy. - 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/aghafoy.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aghafoy.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aghafoy.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) - Aghafoy, Pettigo: 5 sales, https://everytownland.com/donegal/aghafoy-pettigo.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghnahoo Glebe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aghnahoo-glebe.md - Ardnaglass: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardnaglass-50099.md - Billary: https://everytownland.com/donegal/billary.md - Drumgun: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumgun-51057.md - Drumharriff: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumharriff.md - Kimmid: https://everytownland.com/donegal/kimmid.md - Pettigoe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/pettigoe.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/aghafoy - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/aghafoy