Aghlem

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghlem, from 1,160 m² to 208,611 m² (20.86 ha, 51.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Aghlem 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.

• 4 Jul 2025Conditional

  (1) RENOVATION OF AN EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING TO INCLUDE CHANGES TO THE ELEVATIONS AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION, (2) WIDENING OF EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO THE PUBLIC ROAD AND (3) INSTALLATION OF NEW SUITABLE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED FACILITIES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561139

• 7 Feb 2025Refused

  INSTALLATION OF NEW SUITABLE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED FACILITIES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560150

• 20 Dec 2024N/a

  INSTALLATION OF NEW SUITABLE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED FACILITIES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2462166

• 15 Mar 2024Conditional

  EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460344

• 9 Dec 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND INSTALLATION OF A SECONDARY AND TERITARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DISCHARGE TO A DISPOSAL/DISTRIBUTION PAD

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951903

• 6 Jun 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW FORESTRY ROAD ENTRANCE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850887

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: Lough Eske and Ardnamona Wood SAC 000163

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghlem.

Architectural heritage

• Aghlem Bridge, bridge, 1850–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arched bridge carrying road over the Drummenny River, built c. 1860, having battered buttresses to either side of arch to both the east and west elevations. Possibly containing fabric of earlier bridge to site. Segmental-headed arch having rock-faced voussoirs to arch having dressed margins; squared and coursed rubble stone construction to arch barrel. Squared and snecked rubble stone construction to parapets and spandrels with rock-faced cut stone coping over parapets. Some modern repairs to parapets. Rubble stone wing walls to either side. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located in the rural landscape to the east of Donegal Town.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, 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 Aghlem.

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 Aghlem with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Aghlem

Area

976,048 m² (97.6 ha, 241.19 acres)

Civil parish

Donegal, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Tullynaught, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tullynaught electoral division: 657 people in 206 households; 90% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnagassan, Copany, Drumadoney, Leghawny, Meenadreen, Straness

Placenames

Aghlem 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.