Aghangaddy Glebe
Townland in the civil parish of Aughnish, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 212.6 ha
- 525 acres
- Land parcels
- 100
- registered freehold, median 3,062 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 33
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
100 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghangaddy Glebe, from 19 m² to 147,641 m² (14.76 ha, 36.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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 Aghangaddy Glebe 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 Jul 2026N/a
(1) RETENTION OF THE CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING BUILDING FROM RETAIL / STORAGE (PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 05/50590) TO RECEPTION, OFFICES, STORAGE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A SEPARATE BUILDING FOR THE PURPOSES OF STORAGE, TO BE ACCESSED VIA A NEW ACCESS ROAD AND (3) INSTALLATION OF A SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM TO INCLUDE SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661384
22 Jul 2026Refused
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL DRY BED STORAGE SHED MEASURING 36M X 18M, INCORPORATING AN INTERNAL CENTRAL DIVIDING WALL TO CREATE TWO SEPARATE STORAGE BAYS FOR STORAGE OF MACHINERY, EQUIPMENT, FODDER AND OTHER FARM RELATED MATERIAL
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2650101
18 May 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING AND SINGLE STOREY GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF A SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Outline permission · Donegal County Council, 2660886
24 Mar 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED CATTLE / CUBICLE SHED WITH INTEGRATED UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANKS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS WITHIN THE EXISTING FARMYARD COMPLEX
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660482
10 Dec 2025Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562185
17 Sept 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE AND AN ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561609
23 Jun 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561047
24 Apr 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460576
10 Aug 2023Conditional
ON-SITE ALTERATIONS TO THAT WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NO. 03/7018 INCLUDING (1) CHANGE OF POSITION OF HOUSE ON THE SITE, (2) RELOCATION OF SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, (3) ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND INCREASE OF FLOOR AREA TO DWELLING AND (4) DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING FIRST FLOOR ACCOMMODATION
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351186
1 Mar 2023Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350250
1 Mar 2023Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350251
27 Jan 2023Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE & WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM PREVIOUSLY APPLIED FOR UNDER PLANNING REF:17/51717
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350075
19 Jan 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350039
20 Jun 2022Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF A BUILDING FOR THE PURPOSES OF SALES AND STORAGE OF AGRICULTURAL SUPPLIES INCORPORATING A VETERINARY CLINIC FOR SMALL ANIMALS (2) REPOSITIONING OF EXISTING ANIMAL FEED SILOS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251066
11 Feb 2022Conditional
(1) REMOVAL OF EXISTING TOILETS TO SOUTHERN ELEVATION (2) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO INCORPORATE A CAFÉ/LOUNGE WITH NEW TOILET FACILITIES TO THE SOUTHERN ELEVATION (3) INSTALL 5 NO ELECTRICAL CHARGING POINTS AND (4) EXTENSION TO ONSITE CAR PARKING PROVISION (5) RELOCATION OF OIL STORAGE TANK (6) DECOMMISSION OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND INSTALLATION OF NEW TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH DRIP DISPERSAL PERCOLATION SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO EXISTING SHOP AND SERVICE STATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250220
13 Sept 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151822
19 May 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150970
16 Mar 2021Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A COACH MAINTENANCE GARAGE WITH ANCILLARY STORAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2150464
18 Nov 2020Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH A DOMESTIC GARAGE & INSTALLATION OF AN ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051743
30 Jan 2019Conditional
(1) EXISTING CONTAINER FOR USE AS A DOMESTIC STORE, (2)REMOVAL OF EXISTING STATIC HOME, (3) REMOVAL OF EXISTING SHIPPING CONTAINER, (4) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND (5) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950108
9 Jul 2018Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND PACKAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851068
21 Mar 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE INCLUDING ATTIC STORAGE AREA TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850402
28 Feb 2018Conditional
(1) CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL BUILDING TO USE AS LIGHT INDUSTRIAL BUILDING (2) CHANGES TO ELEVATIONS OF EXISTING BUILDING TO INCLUDE NEW DOORS AND NEW SIGNAGE (3) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW ENTRANCE ONTO EXISTING ACCESS ROAD AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850291
23 Feb 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE & WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM PREVIOUSLY APPLIED FOR UNDER PLANNING REF:17/51717
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850265
1 Feb 2018Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AS PREVIOUSLY APPLIED FOR UNDER PLANNING REFS: 07/50162, 12/40191 AND 17/50809
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850125
The 25 most recent of 33 applications.
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 Aghangaddy Glebe.
Recorded monuments
- DG045-036 Rock art
Description
A black and white photograph of a stone decorated with a ring and cup motif which was possibly located in the grounds of Aghangaddy House near Ramelton in Co. Donegal. On the back of the photograph there is the name of Mabel Colhun who visited the sie in August 1971 on behalf of the Irish Tourist Board. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: : 30 May 2010
Architectural heritage
- Aghangaddy, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey complex of former outbuildings (front elevation to southeast) associated with former Church of Ireland glebe house (c.1900, now demolished), built 1828, having two-storey wing to the northeast, and with two ranges of two storey outbuildings to northwest and southwest (arranged around courtyard). Now converted to use as private dwelling (after c.1900); renovated c.1992 following fire damage. Single-storey extension and former conservatory to southwest. Hipped natural purple slate roof with roughcast-rendered eaves course (exposed red brick eaves course to rear) with cast-iron rainwater goods and cement-rendered chimneystacks. Lean-to natural slate roof to extension. Roughcast rendered walls; exposed rubble stone walls to rear. Square-headed window openings to front elevation (southeast) having smooth-rendered surrounds and replacement windows. Square-headed window openings to northeast elevation of block to northeast with flush red brick block-and-start surrounds, some stone sills and mainly six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows at first floor level and with three tripartite Wyatt-style timber sliding sash windows at ground floor level. Central square-headed doorway to main elevation with smooth-rendered surround, timber panelled door with bolection mouldings, and with flanking square-headed windows with smooth-rendered surrounds and replacement windows. Two ranges of two-storey outbuildings attached to southwest; hipped natural slate roofs with shallow projecting eaves course and some surviving cast-iron rainwater goods; roughcast-rendered walls; square-headed window openings at first floor level having smooth-rendered surrounds, stone sills and battened timber loading bays and timber louvered fittings; square-headed openings at ground floor level with battened timber doors and square-headed carriage-arches with battened timber double-leaf doors. Section of walling to southwest of main dwelling block having gateway to cobbled yard with pair of roughcast-rendered rubble stone square-plan gate piers with pyramidal caps and having double-leaf wrought-iron flat-bar gate with integral round-headed pedestrian gate. Set back from road in extensive mature landscaped grounds in countryside south of Ramelton. Remains of small sub-pentagonal-plan walled garden to southeast, with rubble stone walls. Former gate lodge to north, recently renovated (2016). Gateway to southeast having pair of monolithic octagonal-plan cut-stone gate posts with pyramidal caps, at start of long approach avenue to house from southeast.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1811 (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 Aghangaddy Glebe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Aghangaddy Glebe
- Area
- 2,125,749 m² (212.57 ha, 525.28 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aughnish, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Rathmelton, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rathmelton electoral division: 2,494 people in 938 households; 71% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Breaghy, Cashelshanaghan, Glenleary, Newmill, Rathmelton, Roughpark
- Placenames
- Aghangaddy Glebe 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.