Aghragh
Aghragh is a townland in the civil parish of Glencolumbkille, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is An tAtharach.
- Area
- 291.8 ha
- 721 acres
- Land parcels
- 112
- registered freehold, median 3,401 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
112 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghragh, from 58 m² to 969,880 m² (96.99 ha, 239.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Aghragh 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
9 Oct 2026N/a
(1) RETENTION OF SITE CLEARANCE WORKS AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661864
21 Sept 2026N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF PROPRIETARY SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661749
20 Mar 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460364
15 Jun 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350848
11 Oct 2021Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DISTILLERY COMPLEX TO CONSIST OF THE FOLLOWING:- (1) A NEW WHISKEY DISTILLERY FACILITY WITH VISITOR CENTRE AND ASSOCIATED OFFICES, LABORATORY, STAFF & ANCILLARY FACILITIES. (2) EXTERNAL ESB SUB STATION. (3) EXTERNAL COOLING TOWER. (4) A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE WITH ASSOCIATED FILTER LANE OFF THE MAIN COUNTY ROAD, WITH INTERNAL ACCESS ROADS AND INTERNAL FOOTPATHS, CAR AND BUS PARKING AREAS. (5) COOLING AND SURFACE WATER RETENTION PONDS WITHIN THE SITE AREA. (6) FIRE RETENTION POND. (7) A COMMERCIAL BARREL STORE AND PROVIDE A FILLING ROOM WITH BOTTLING AREA. (8) A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT WITH ASSOCIATED PERCOLATION AREAS. (9) ERECTION OF ROAD SIDE SIGNAGE AND ASSOCIATED SIGNAGE TO THE FACTORY BUILDINGS. (10) CONSTRUCTION OF A HELICOPTER PAD. (11) CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING OLD FARM BUILDINGS TO COMMERCIAL USE WITH ELEVATIONAL AMENDMENTS AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS AND ANNEXED ROOF AREAS TO THE OLD FARM BUILDINGS TO PROVIDE FOR A GIN/ POITÍN DISTILLERY AND GIN/POITÍN MUSEUM, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT & LANDSCAPING WORKS
Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2152006
27 Apr 2021Conditional
SUB STRUCTURE OF DOMESTIC GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE & ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2150759
29 Jul 2019Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PERCOLATION AREA & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951157
17 Sept 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO DWELLING
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851417
30 Jul 2018N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO DWELLING
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851162
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Slieve League SAC 000189
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve League 000189
Recorded monuments
- DG096-001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Internal diam. c. 30m. A slightly subcircular area defined for the most part by a silted-up fosse and by a short stretch of earthen bank .4m high on the S side. The fosse is from 1.3m to 2.6m wide. The interior slopes down to ENE. The site is located on a low platform 33.5m NW-SE × 32.6m NE-SW in an area of fair pasture overlooking Teelin Estuary. 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: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghragh.
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
- The EPA radon map did not answer.
- 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 Aghragh.
- 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 Aghragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Aghragh · An tAtharach
- Area
- 2,918,010 m² (291.8 ha, 721.06 acres)
- Civil parish
- Glencolumbkille, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- West Donegal, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 732 people lived in 273 households in the West Donegal electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymore, Carrick Lower, Lergadaghtan Mountain, Roxborough Glebe, Shanbally
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Aghragh 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.