Aghanursan
Aghanursan is a townland in the civil parish of Tullyfern, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 48.3 ha
- 119 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 2,428 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghanursan, from 167 m² to 176,125 m² (17.61 ha, 43.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Aghanursan 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
16 Mar 2023Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A 20KV OVERHEAD & UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLE TO SERVE APPROVED WINDFARM DEVELOPMENT. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS)
Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2350340
11 Nov 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK WITH DISCHARGE FOUL EFFLUENT INTO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PUMPED TO MAIN PUBLIC SEWER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051704
18 Aug 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051129
12 Jul 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A 20KV OVERHEAD & UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLE TO SERVE APPROVED WINDFARM DEVELOPMENT. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS)
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751115
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 Aghanursan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghanursan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghanursan.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Aghanursan, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aghanursan.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Aghanursan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Aghanursan
- Area
- 482,585 m² (48.26 ha, 119.25 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tullyfern, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Millford, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,633 people lived in 608 households in the Millford electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Aghanursan 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.