# Aghnakeeragh, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Raphoe, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 312,141 m² (31.21 ha, 77.13 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,207 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Raphoe, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/raphoe.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Raphoe, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,521 people lived in 591 households in the Raphoe electoral division. 59% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16480 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50032 - Centre: latitude 54.866104, longitude -7.617929 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghnakeeragh, from 187 m² to 72,389 m² (7.24 ha, 17.89 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1395237: 72,389 m² (7.24 ha, 17.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395237.md - Parcel 1427811: 43,671 m² (4.37 ha, 10.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427811.md - Parcel 1373973: 39,443 m² (3.94 ha, 9.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373973.md - Parcel 1402586: 29,754 m² (2.98 ha, 7.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402586.md - Parcel 1361995: 22,556 m² (2.26 ha, 5.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361995.md - Parcel 1357691: 17,201 m² (1.72 ha, 4.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357691.md - Parcel 1421734: 14,753 m² (1.48 ha, 3.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1421734.md - Parcel 1348698: 12,699 m² (1.27 ha, 3.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1348698.md - Parcel 3663281: 6,998 m² (0.7 ha, 1.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3663281.md - Parcel 1375003: 5,048 m² (0.5 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1375003.md - Parcel 4242993: 4,174 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4242993.md - Parcel 4269021: 3,926 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4269021.md - Parcel 3904326: 3,478 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3904326.md - Parcel 3663280: 3,339 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3663280.md - Parcel 1372948: 3,266 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372948.md - Parcel 1330347: 3,207 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330347.md - Parcel 1427618: 2,934 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427618.md - Parcel 3831863: 2,834 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3831863.md - Parcel 3033989: 2,820 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3033989.md - Parcel 3663279: 2,742 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3663279.md - Parcel 4242957: 2,138 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4242957.md - Parcel 3831834: 2,097 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3831834.md - Parcel 1378553: 1,983 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378553.md - Parcel 1348699: 1,884 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1348699.md - Parcel 1352851: 1,862 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352851.md - Parcel 1313625: 1,507 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1313625.md - Parcel 4437381: 1,386 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4437381.md - Parcel 4437380: 434 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4437380.md - Parcel 4242966: 412 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4242966.md - Parcel 1405625: 316 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405625.md - Parcel 1417089: 187 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417089.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Aghnakeeragh 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 6 Jun 2024, Donegal County Council 2460844: N/a. Permission, 1 home. AMENDMENT OF DWELLING DESIGN AND LAYOUT OF PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING REFERENCE NO. 22/51619 TO A NEW DESIGN OF A SINGLE ONE AND A HALF STOREY STYLE DETACHED DOMESTIC DWELLING WITH DETACHED GARAGE/STORE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460844/0 - 21 Dec 2020, Donegal County Council 2052027: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING APPROVED KITCHEN MANUFACTURING AND SHOWROOM PREMISES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2052027/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Aghnakeeragh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghnakeeragh. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Bridge, 1900–1910, Regional interest, registry number 40907057, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40907057. Single-arch former railway bridge, built c. 1909, carrying the former Strabane to Letterkenny narrow gauge railway line over road. Railway line now out of use with tracks removed (c. 1960). Squared and mildly rock-faced construction to spandrels, parapets, piers, and abutments; chamfered cut stone coping over parapets. Segmental-headed arch with rock-faced cut stone voussoirs. Squared and coursed rock-faced stone retaining walls to either side of bridge. Deck now overgrown. Located in the rural countryside to the west of Raphoe. ## 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 Aghnakeeragh, about 1 in 10 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 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 Aghnakeeragh. - 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/aghnakeeragh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aghnakeeragh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aghnakeeragh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Aghnakeeragh 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) - Braehead: https://everytownland.com/donegal/braehead.md - Burnside: https://everytownland.com/donegal/burnside.md - Cooladerry: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cooladerry-50695.md - Gort Glebe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gort-glebe-51388.md - Sesnacully: https://everytownland.com/donegal/sesnacully.md - Tullyvinny: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tullyvinny.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. --- 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/aghnakeeragh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/aghnakeeragh