Altaghaderry

308 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Altaghaderry, from 5 m² to 316,766 m² (31.68 ha, 78.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Altaghaderry 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.

• 19 Dec 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562301

• 6 Nov 2025Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED (PLANNING REF. NO. 22/51810 REFERS) COMPRISING A REVISED TWO-STOREY DWELLING AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561933

• 28 Oct 2025N/a

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 22/51810 COMPRISING OF A REVISED TWO STOREY DWELLING AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561870

• 17 Sept 2024Conditional

  (1) ENTRANCE AND ACCESS ROAD, (2) GARDEN ROOM, (3) SUB FLOORS FOR STORAGE SHED AND PERMISSION FOR RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461468

• 22 Jul 2024Unconditional

  COMPLETION OF AN UNFINISHED DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF (A) REMOVAL OF 7 EXISTING FOOTINGS ON SITE, (B) COMPLETION OF 3 DETACHED FOOTINGS, (C) CONSTRUCTION OF 4 SINGLE STOREY DWELLINGS, (D) CONSTRUCTION OF 8 SEMI DETACHED DWELLINGS AND (E) CONSTRUCTION OF 15 DETACHED DWELLINGS AND COMPLETION OF ALL EXISTING UNFINISHED DRIVEWAYS, FOOTPATHS, LAMPSTANDS, SEWER PIPEWORK, SURFACE WATER PIPEWORK AND THE MAINS PIPEWORK AND ALL OTHER ANCILLARY WORK INCLUDING LANDSCAPING OF OPEN SPACES

  Extension of duration, 30 homes · Donegal County Council, 2450183

• 25 Mar 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460382

• 31 May 2023Conditional

  EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSISTING OF THE DEMOLITION OF A SINGLE STOREY REAR EXTENSION, THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY REAR EXTENSION WITH MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND RENOVATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND IMPROVEMENTS TO PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350776

• 2 May 2023N/a

  EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE. THE WORKS WILL CONSIST OF THE DEMOLITION OF A SINGLE STOREY REAR EXTENSION, CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY REAR EXTENSION WITH MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND RENOVATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND IMPROVEMENTS TO PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350577

• 16 Mar 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SMALL EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350339

• 4 Nov 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251810

• 4 Mar 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250385

• 27 Jan 2022Conditional

  EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE COMPRISING OF A GAMES ROOM AND DOMESTIC GAMES

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250090

• 9 Dec 2021N/a

  EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE COMPRISING OF A GAMES ROOM AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2152453

• 14 May 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, INCORPORTATING PART EXISTING DETACHED OUTBUILDING, AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORK

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150920

• 19 Apr 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION ONTO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, INCORPORATING PART EXISTING DETACHED OUTBUILDING AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150689

• 21 Oct 2020Conditional

  EXISTING SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF DWELLING ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2051569

• 22 Jul 2020Conditional

  UPGRADE WORKS AT KILLEA WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AS FOLLOWS: (1) NEW INLET WORKS (2) 2 NO. PRIMARY SETTLEMENT TANKS (3) STORMWATER HOLDING TANK AND STORMWATER RETURN PUMPING STATION (4) ROTATING BIOLOGICAL CONTRACTOR (RBC) UNITS (5) 2 NO. FINAL SETTLEMENT TANKS (6) NEW ADMINISTRATION BUILDING (6) SLUDGE STORAGE TANK (7) NEW SECURITY FENCE (8) SITE ROADS (9) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING ADMINISTRATION BUILDING (10) DECOMMISSIONING OF THE EXISTING SECONDARY TREATMENT UNITS (11) DECOMMISSIONING OF THE EXISTING INLET WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050982

• 25 Jun 2020Unconditional

  REMOVAL OF EXISTING RUIN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC OUTBUILDING TOGETHER WITH AN ON-SITE SEWERAGE SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050830

• 22 Jun 2020N/a

  (1) NEW INLET WORKS (2) 2 NO. PRIMARY SETTLEMENT TANKS (3) STORMWATER HOLDING TANK AND STORMWATER RETURN PUMPING STATION (4) 3 NO. ROTATING BIOLOGICAL CONTACTOR (RBC) UNITS (5) 2 NO. FINAL SETTLEMENT TANKS (6) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ADMINSTRATION BUILDING (7) INSTALLATION OF SLUDGE STORAGE TANK (8)ERECTION OF A NEW SECURITY FENCE (9) DEVELOPMENT OF SITE ROADS (10) DEMOLITION OF THE EXSTING ADMINSTRATION BUILDING (11) DECOMMISSIONING OF THE EXISTING SECONDARY TREATMENT UNITS (12) DECOMMISSIONING OF THE EXSTING INLET WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT WILL ACCOMPANY THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050811

• 12 Apr 2019Conditional

  (1) REMOVAL OF UNAUTHORISED WALL AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE ELEVATION OF EXISTING PREMISES KNOWN AS 'THE ALT BAR', AND (2) RETENTION OF SMOKING AREA

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1950515

• 20 Dec 2018Conditional

  COMPLETION OF AN UNFINISHED DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF (A) REMOVAL OF 7 EXISTING FOOTINGS ON SITE, (B) COMPLETION OF 3 DETACHED FOOTINGS ON SITE NO'S 6,7 AND 9, (C) CONSTRUCTION OF 4 SINGLE STOREY DWELLINGS, (D) CONSTRUCTION OF 8 SEMI DETACHED DWELLINGS AND (E) CONSTRUCTION OF 15 DETACHED DWELLINGS AND COMPLETION OF ALL EXISTING UNFINISHED DRIVEWAYS, FOOTPATHS, LAMPSTANDS, SEWER PIPEWORK, SURFACE WATER PIPEWORK AND THE MAINS PIPEWORK AND ALL OTHER ANCILLARY WORK INCLUDING LANDSCAPING OF OPEN SPACES

  Permission, 30 homes · Donegal County Council, 1851931

• 12 Feb 2018Refused

  (A) RETENTION OF EXISTING CONCRETE RETAINING WALL STRUCTURE AND TIMBER FENCE, (B) FILLING IN OF EXISTING EXCAVATED LANDS TO PROVIDE FOR A YARD AND (C) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1850209

• 31 Jan 2018N/a

  (A) RETENTION OF EXISTING CONCRETE RETAINING WALL STRUCTURE AND TIMBER FENCE (B) FILING IN OF EXISTING EXCAVATED LANDS TO PROVIDE FOR A YARD AND (C) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850112

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 Altaghaderry.

Recorded monuments

• DG055-003 Standing stone
  Description

  There is no trace of the 'Standing Stone' marked on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a low rise in good land generally falling to SE. 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

• DG055-011 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  There is no sign of the 'Fort' marked on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. It was situated on a small hillock in excellent land with good views.

• DG055-030 Cist
  Description

  This cist was uncovered during ploughing in 2000 or 2001 and investigated by Halpin and Roche on behalf of the NMI, in 2003. Rectangular short cist (int. dims. 0.85m N-S; 0.625m E-W; D 0.51m) whose sides were defined princiaplly by four main slabs set on edge A number of small slabs were also laid horizontally over the N and S ends to raise the height to that of the long sides. There were three possible shallow cup-marks on the S end stone. The floor of the cist was paved with a number of small slate slabs and sloped from south to north. The cist had originally been sealed by a single subrectangular capstone (dims. 1.11m x 86m; T 0.1m). The contents of the cist had been seriously disturbed upon discovery and much of the fill of the cist proved, on excavation, to have been redeposited. Sherds of four bipartite vessels was uncovered. A substantial part of cremations deposits survived, scattered over most of the floor of the cist, apart from the N end and SW and SE corners. Analysis of the cremated bones reveal the presence of 11 individuals: at least five adults, including two males and one female; at least two juveniles under 7 years old; an infant aged 7-11 months; a neotate and two foetuses, probably under 5 months 'in utero'. The cremated bone yielded a date of c. 2195 to 1768 BC. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol. 1, 98-111). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 12 February 2013

• DG055-031 Fulacht fia
  Description

  The proposed development would involve the construction of 34 houses and include the construction of roadways and footpaths, connection of foul and storm drainage to the existing public drainage system, provision of services, landscaping of open area space and paths and all ancillary site works. The proposed development area measures 24,824m2. The excavation of fourteen test-trenches throughout the proposed development area revealed the presence of a previously unidentified spread of burnt stone in the eastern end of the proposed land-take. The method statement submitted for the testing suggested that this general area, due to its low-lying and slightly waterlogged nature, had the potential to contain previously unrecorded fulachta fiadh. A spread of burnt stone was identified in Trench 9 and three additional trenches, Trenches 9b, 9c and 9d, were excavated to help define its extent, character and condition. Testing suggests that the feature measures c. 13m east–west by 12m and continues to the ditch, which forms the eastern boundary of the proposed development area, and which is also a townland and parish boundary. Limited hand investigation showed the stone spread to have a probable depth of c. 0.15m. Excavation of the remainder of the trenches failed to reveal either archaeological features or artefacts. The burnt spread was preserved in situ under a geotextile layer, which was gradually sealed by broken stone to a height of c. 1.3m. Monitoring of topsoil-stripping across the whole of the site failed to reveal archaeological features or artefacts (Bennett 2010, 79). The NGR given in Excavations 2007 plots the monument in the adjoining townland of Altaghaderry rather than Kildrum Upper as stated in the excavation report. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision : 18 November 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Altaghaderry, about 1 in 10 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 Altaghaderry.

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.

• Altaghaderry, Killea6 sales

Name

Altaghaderry

Area

2,235,640 m² (223.56 ha, 552.44 acres)

Civil parish

Killea, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Killea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,802 people lived in 681 households in the Killea electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboe, Castruse, Kildrum Upper, Legnaduff

Placenames

Altaghaderry 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.