# Aghnahoo Glebe, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning

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

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 940,339 m² (94.03 ha, 232.36 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 12,054 m² (1.21 ha, 2.98 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Templecarn, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/templecarn.md
- Barony: Tirhugh
- Electoral division: Templecarn, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Templecarn electoral division: 105 people in 46 households; 80% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 26% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14250
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50031
- Centre: latitude 54.538964, longitude -7.853255 (WGS 84)

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

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghnahoo Glebe, from 1,868 m² to 124,271 m² (12.43 ha, 30.71 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1391718: 124,271 m² (12.43 ha, 30.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391718.md
- Parcel 1330054: 85,271 m² (8.53 ha, 21.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330054.md
- Parcel 1347188: 70,646 m² (7.06 ha, 17.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1347188.md
- Parcel 2428255: 21,615 m² (2.16 ha, 5.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2428255.md
- Parcel 2428254: 12,054 m² (1.21 ha, 2.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2428254.md
- Parcel 5797205: 5,993 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5797205.md
- Parcel 2428253: 3,487 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2428253.md
- Parcel 1400018: 2,636 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1400018.md
- Parcel 4660838: 1,868 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4660838.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Aghnahoo Glebe 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)

3 applications, newest first.

- 12 Feb 2026, Donegal County Council 2660187: Conditional. Permission. RENOVATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS TO THE FRONT AND REAR OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660187/0
- 16 May 2018, Donegal County Council 1850770: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE SERVICED BY AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE IN LIEU OF THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REF 08/20206 WHICH WAS EXTENDED UNDER PLANNING REF 13/51600. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850770/0
- 14 Mar 2017, Donegal County Council 1750376: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. RETENTION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AS ERECTED AND TO UPGRADE EXISTING WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750376/0

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## 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 Aghnahoo Glebe.

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

- DG105-014001: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG105-014001-. Termon McGrath Castle: The lands of Termon McGrath were granted to James, son of Archbishop Myler McGrath in 1610 (Hill 1877, 183-4). In 1611 Carew records that the 'Archbishop of Cashill hath begune a prittie castle at Termon Magragh w'ch he entends speedily to finish, havinge his materials ready at the place wher he meanes to buyld a bawne and finish the castle' (Hunter 1975, 82). In the campaign of 1649-50 Termon McGrath Castle was bombarded by Cromwellian troops and the N wall of the tower-house destroyed; it has remained a ruin ever since (Rowan 1979, 453). The ruins comprise a tower-house and bawn (DG105-014001-) sited where the Waterfoot and Termon rivers enter Lough Erne. The tower-house on the S side of the bawn is built of roughly coursed blocks and split stone rubble laid in mortar, and has ashlar quoins; the walls are battered to first floor-level. The building is of five storeys including attic, a rectangle 11.22m x 9.02m externally, with a circular tower at the NE corner which enclosed a wooden spiral stairs. All storeys were floored with timber, carried on scarcements at first and second-floor levels. The window embrasures on the ground and first floors are lintelled and have relieving arches, and those on the second and third floors have flat arches which were supported by wooden beams (now missing). The entrance is at ground level at the S end of the E wall; it has a pointed head and though the jambs have been partly broken away, sufficient remains to indicate that the entrance was rebated internally for a door and externally for a hinged iron grille, which was secured from within the tower by means of a chain passing through an angled hole in the N jamb. The door was further protected by a gun-loop at the apex of the head, which was served from the room above the entrance at first-floor level. Inside the door is a small mural lobby with remains of a murder-hole. The doorway to the ground-floor chamber has completely fallen and only sections of the W jamb survive. The ground-floor was defended by six rectangular horizontal windows 46cms x 18cms which retain sinkings for two vertical iron bars; the interior sill is sloped to enable access and manoeuvreability. Four survive intact in the S and W walls and the splayed ingoings of those in the N wall remain. The interior face of the E wall has collapsed but the surviving splayed ingoing beside, the NE tower indicates that there was a gun-loop in this position. There are two wall-presses in the angles of the NW and SW corners. There must have been some form of internal wooden stairs providing access to the first-floor, for the spiral stairs in the NE tower only begins at this level. This floor was lighted on three sides by rectangular windows with sinkings for two vertical bars set in embrasures with splayed ingoings; the floors of the embrasures are of large, split stone flags but much of the inner sections have fallen. There are indications for two windows in the N wall, and there was undoubtedly a third between them. The windows had wooden shutters reinforced with drawbars, and the two E windows in the S wall were further protected by gun loops below sill level. The floor of the window embrasure in the E wall, which preserves two sides of the murder-hole, is higher than the others due to the large ground-floor entrance. The stairway is entered by a pointed door; only the N half survives and retains the eye and pivot socket for the door on the inside. There is a mural-passage in the E wall with a wall-press at the S end; most of the inner wall has collapsed and only the relieving arch of the window in the outer wall survives. The bond holes for the treads and risers of the wooden stairs are visible in the wall of the tower. There are three gun-loops beneath the stairs and five others (two sets of two above one another) on the ascent to the upper storey. The stairwell was lighted by two windows with splayed ingoings and segment-headed rear-arches. The entrance to the second-floor was by a lintelled doorway which preserves the upper eye-stone for the door on the chamber side of the N jamb. This chamber was lighted by a three-light window in the W wall and at the W end of the S wall, and by a two-light window at the E end of the S wall and in the E wall; the exteriors have chamfered hood-moulds and the wooden shutters of the two former windows were secured with drawbars. There is a large central fire-place in the S wall which is partly reduced in width by blocking on the E side. Only the E jamb and the two elbow-like projecting stories survive; the latter kept the skew backs of the large mantel (now fallen) in position. There is a stairs built into the thickness of the NE angle. The stairwell entrance was lighted by a small square window in the W wall. The stairs originally had wooden steps but at some stage were partly blocked up. The N wall has completely collapsed; it may have had two windows. The main stairs in the tower has four gun-loops and two windows on the ascent to the upper floor. This third floor (not planned) was entered by a lintelled doorway and the chamber was lighted by two two-light windows in the S wall, a three-light, transomed window in the W wall and a two-light window in the E wall; all have hollow-chamfered hood-moulds. The E wall has a central fireplace which like that in the S wall on the second-floor was also reduced in width by blocking against the N jamb. The lintel and most of the inner wall of the flue have fallen. Beside the fireplace on the N there is a wall-press of equal height. Very little of the fourth or attic-floor remains. It has two fireplaces, one in the S wall and the other in the E gable. Access to the wall-walk was by a door, N of the latter fireplace. The E gable is crowned with a double square stack and there must have been a similar example over the two flues in the S wall. The wall-walk was protected by a battlemented parapet. The parapet is much ruined and oversails the wall faces, where it is provided with a bartizan at the SE corner and a machicolation along the W face with returns about the N and S corners. The machicolation is partly blocked by rainwater spouts. The defensive character of the tower-house is amply demonstrated by the iron grille, the entrance lobby with murder-hole, the numerous gun-loops and the way in which the stairway was capable of being sealed off from the inside at first-floor level and from the chamber side at second-floor level. The bawn (DG105-014002-) is roughly L-shaped in plan, the maximum dimensions being c. 27m x 27m; it is enclosed by a wall of roughly-coursed blocks and split stone rubble laid in mortar, and abuts the NE and SW corners of the tower-house. It was protected by two circular two-storey towers at the NE and NW corners; these were entered from the bawn by lintelled doorways with drawbar holes. They were fitted with gun-loops on both levels. Only the lower courses of the SE corner of the bawn wall remain. The E wall is c. 3m-4m in height and preserves indications for seven gun-loops. There is a splayed opening at ground level at the N end of this wall; its function is unclear. At the S end of the wall, opposite the tower, the wall is off-set 2.1m above present ground level which together with a corbel-like projection of mortared stones indicates a possible wall-walk or super-structure in this area. There are traces of a shallow fosse outside the E and SE bawn wall. The SW section of bawn wall is represented by footings. The W wall c. 2.5m-3.5min height has five gun-loops and had a small contemporary building near its S end; no visible trace of the E extent of this structure survives. The foundations of the N wall remain with traces of a central gate. A road, c. 4.3m wide and delineated by rubble blocks, leads N from the gate for c. 100m. 'Tarmon McGragh Castle & Towne' is marked on the Down Survey (1655-6) map of the Parish of Cam, Barony of Tyrehugh (1654-56). It appears that a small villag
- DG105-014002: Settlement cluster, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG105-014002-. 'The lands of Termon McGrath were granted to James, son of Archbishop Myler McGrath in 1610 (Hill 1877, 183-4). In 1611 Carew records that the 'Archbishop of Cashill hath begune a prittie castle at Termon Magragh w'ch he entends speedily to finish, havinge his materials ready at the place wher he meanes to buyld a bawne and finish the castle' (Hunter 1975, 82). In the campaign of 1649-50 Termon McGrath Castle was bombarded by Cromwellian troops and the N wall of the tower-house destroyed; it has remained a ruin ever since (Rowan 1979, 453)'. 'Tarmon McGragh Castle & Towne' is marked on the Down Survey (1655-6) map of the Parish of Cam, Barony of Tyrehugh. It appears that a small village grew up around the castle [DG105-014001- and DG105-014003-] (Ó Gallachair n.d. 17). A number of drains (DG105-014003-) criss-cross the area to the E and W of the roadway leading to the castle entrance and the aerial photograph (St. Joseph AJT 52) seems to show additional evidence of the layout of the 'town' or possibly of a garden. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 08 December 2011
- DG105-014003: Bawn, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG105-014003-. Located on the NW side of a tower house (DG105-014001-) and associated with a settlement cluster (DG105-014002-). The lands of Termon McGrath were granted to James, son of Archbishop Myler McGrath in 1610 (Hill 1877, 183-4). In 1611 Carew records that the 'Archbishop of Cashill hath begune a prittie castle at Termon Magragh w'ch he entends speedily to finish, havinge his materials ready at the place wher he meanes to buyld a bawne and finish the castle' (Hunter 1975, 82). In the campaign of 1649-50 Termon McGrath Castle was bombarded by Cromwellian troops and the N wall of the tower-house destroyed; it has remained a ruin ever since (Rowan 1979, 453). The ruins comprise a tower-house (DG105-001-) and bawn (DG105-014003-) sited where the Waterfoot and Termon rivers enter Lough Erne. The bawn (DG105-014003-) is roughly L-shaped in plan, the maximum dimensions being c. 27m x 27m; it is enclosed by a wall of roughly-coursed blocks and split stone rubble laid in mortar, and abuts the NE and SW corners of the tower-house. It was protected by two circular two-storey towers at the NE and NW corners; these were entered from the bawn by lintelled doorways with drawbar holes. They were fitted with gun-loops on both levels. Only the lower courses of the SE corner of the bawn wall remain. The E wall is c. 3m-4m in height and preserves indications for seven gun-loops. There is a splayed opening at ground level at the N end of this wall; its function is unclear. At the S end of the wall, opposite the tower, the wall is off-set 2.1m above present ground level which together with a corbel-like projection of mortared stones indicates a possible wall-walk or super-structure in this area. There are traces of a shallow fosse outside the E and SE bawn wall. The SW section of bawn wall is represented by footings. The W wall c. 2.5m-3.5min height has five gun-loops and had a small contemporary building near its S end; no visible trace of the E extent of this structure survives. The foundations of the N wall remain with traces of a central gate. A road, c. 4.3m wide and delineated by rubble blocks, leads N from the gate for c. 100m. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 08 December 2011

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghnahoo Glebe.

## 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 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 Aghnahoo Glebe.
- 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/aghnahoo-glebe.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aghnahoo-glebe.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aghnahoo-glebe.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Aghnahoo Glebe 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)

- Aghafoy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aghafoy.md
- Drumgun: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumgun-51057.md
- Drumharriff: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumharriff.md
- Mulnagoad: https://everytownland.com/donegal/mulnagoad.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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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.

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