# Aghlem, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Donegal, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 976,048 m² (97.6 ha, 241.19 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 20,987 m² (2.1 ha, 5.19 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/donegal.md
- Barony: Tirhugh
- Electoral division: Tullynaught, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 657 people lived in 206 households in the Tullynaught electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14271
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50030
- Centre: latitude 54.656108, longitude -8.02233 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghlem, from 1,160 m² to 208,611 m² (20.86 ha, 51.55 acres); 33 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1349603: 208,611 m² (20.86 ha, 51.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1349603.md
- Parcel 4942032: 89,672 m² (8.97 ha, 22.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4942032.md
- Parcel 1316668: 71,665 m² (7.17 ha, 17.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1316668.md
- Parcel 1312841: 67,344 m² (6.73 ha, 16.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1312841.md
- Parcel 1349564: 60,430 m² (6.04 ha, 14.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1349564.md
- Parcel 1349563: 56,645 m² (5.66 ha, 14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1349563.md
- Parcel 1349565: 54,326 m² (5.43 ha, 13.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1349565.md
- Parcel 1305269: 47,529 m² (4.75 ha, 11.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305269.md
- Parcel 3659335: 36,200 m² (3.62 ha, 8.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659335.md
- Parcel 1525142: 27,627 m² (2.76 ha, 6.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1525142.md
- Parcel 1376530: 27,073 m² (2.71 ha, 6.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376530.md
- Parcel 1347143: 26,699 m² (2.67 ha, 6.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1347143.md
- Parcel 1525141: 23,320 m² (2.33 ha, 5.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1525141.md
- Parcel 3659336: 22,474 m² (2.25 ha, 5.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659336.md
- Parcel 1349476: 22,070 m² (2.21 ha, 5.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1349476.md
- Parcel 1525140: 21,255 m² (2.13 ha, 5.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1525140.md
- Parcel 1312842: 20,987 m² (2.1 ha, 5.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1312842.md
- Parcel 1366722: 17,030 m² (1.7 ha, 4.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1366722.md
- Parcel 1340160: 16,587 m² (1.66 ha, 4.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340160.md
- Parcel 1314989: 10,886 m² (1.09 ha, 2.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1314989.md
- Parcel 1312852: 8,585 m² (0.86 ha, 2.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1312852.md
- Parcel 1382415: 8,421 m² (0.84 ha, 2.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382415.md
- Parcel 1525143: 8,132 m² (0.81 ha, 2.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1525143.md
- Parcel 2525938: 5,544 m² (0.55 ha, 1.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2525938.md
- Parcel 1371871: 4,635 m² (0.46 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1371871.md
- Parcel 4268467: 3,889 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4268467.md
- Parcel 1312783: 3,536 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1312783.md
- Parcel 1369020: 3,168 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369020.md
- Parcel 1414808: 2,569 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1414808.md
- Parcel 4942396: 2,531 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4942396.md
- Parcel 4268487: 2,458 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4268487.md
- Parcel 1423862: 2,267 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423862.md
- Parcel 1309655: 1,160 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309655.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

6 applications, newest first.

- 4 Jul 2025, Donegal County Council 2561139: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561139/0
- 7 Feb 2025, Donegal County Council 2560150: Refused. Permission. INSTALLATION OF NEW SUITABLE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED FACILITIES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560150/0
- 20 Dec 2024, Donegal County Council 2462166: N/a. Permission. INSTALLATION OF NEW SUITABLE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED FACILITIES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2462166/0
- 15 Mar 2024, Donegal County Council 2460344: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460344/0
- 9 Dec 2019, Donegal County Council 1951903: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND INSTALLATION OF A SECONDARY AND TERITARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DISCHARGE TO A DISPOSAL/DISTRIBUTION PAD. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951903/0
- 6 Jun 2018, Donegal County Council 1850887: N/a. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW FORESTRY ROAD ENTRANCE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850887/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Eske and Ardnamona Wood SAC, site code 000163, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000163

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghlem.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Aghlem Bridge, bridge, 1850–1880, Regional interest, registry number 40909406, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG&regno=40909406. 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.

## 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 Aghlem, about 1 in 20 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 high, 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 Aghlem.
- 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/aghlem.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aghlem.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aghlem.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Aghlem 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)

- Ardnagassan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardnagassan.md
- Copany: https://everytownland.com/donegal/copany.md
- Drumadoney: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumadoney.md
- Leghawny: https://everytownland.com/donegal/leghawny.md
- Meenadreen: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenadreen-51918.md
- Straness: https://everytownland.com/donegal/straness.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.

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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/aghlem
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/aghlem