Aighe

75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aighe, from 392 m² to 303,906 m² (30.39 ha, 75.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Aighe 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.

• 8 Apr 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF A PROPRIETARY SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560526

• 17 Jul 2023N/a

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT HOUSE, PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351048

• 6 Jun 2023N/a

  DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING HOUSE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT HOUSE, PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350800

• 2 Aug 2022N/a

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE & RENOVATIONS TO THE EXISTING HOUSE INCLUDING REPLACEMENT OF THE THATCHED ROOF WITH A SLATE ROOF AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251308

• 8 Jun 2018Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT HOUSE, PROPRIATORY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850908

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Aighe.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aighe.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1860. Pitched rye straw thatched roof with mesh over and tied to stone and timber pegs built into gable walls and to metal rods to long walls, with two rendered chimneystacks. Roughly rendered to front wall, and painted rubble stone to gables and rear wall. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills, and timber battened door. House set on elevated site with rendered rubble stone boundary wall to front and sides. Small lean-to outbuilding to rear with rendered walls, and farm sheds to northeast. Second thatched house adjacent.

• House, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1860. Pitched rye straw thatched roof with mesh over and tied to stone and metal pegs built into walls, with three rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows having painted stone sills, lacking windows to rear wall, and timber battened door. House set on elevated site. Painted rubble stone wall to one side. Single-storey outbuilding to northeast with pitched corrugated-iron roof and rendered walls. Small lean-to outbuilding to southwest with rendered walls. Second thatched house adjacent.

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

At the centre of the townland of Aighe, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

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 Aighe.

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.

No address of the register names Aighe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Aighe · Áighe

Area

3,062,632 m² (306.26 ha, 756.79 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeel, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Glengesh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

694 people lived in 263 households in the Glengesh electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cashel, Common, Common Mountain, Glengesh, Meenakillew, Meenateia

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Aighe 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.