Altatraght

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Altatraght, from 99 m² to 417,274 m² (41.73 ha, 103.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Altatraght 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Altatraght in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC 002301

Recorded monuments

• DG067-004 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  An old roadway which can be traced at a number of points over a distance of a little in excess of one mile. The road was originally paved with stone but is now completely overgrown. It is 2.5m to 3m in width. It is located in an area of fairly poor pasture. Some sections of this roadway are shown on the 3rd edition of the OS 6-inch map and other short sections can be traced. Four trenches were opened on the site of a small food-smoking facility (NGR 19896/39699) in the townland of Falgarrow by Mary Henry of Mary Henry Archaeological Services Ltd under licence No. 07E0535. The site is located just to the south of an archaeological monument classified as a road. Both the monument and the development site are set within a coniferous forest. Nothing of archaeological provenance was discovered in any of the test-trenches (Bennett 2010, 78). 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. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 18 November 2011

• DG067-005 Enclosure
  Description

  No trace of the single-ringed enclosure now survives above ground. It is not clear from conflicting local reports as to whether it was an earthen or stone enclosure. It was situated on a grassy hillock N of the Reelan River surrounded by marshy poor land. 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 Altatraght.

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 Altatraght, 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Altatraght.

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 Altatraght with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Altatraght · Ailt an tSneachta

Area

2,622,339 m² (262.23 ha, 647.99 acres)

Civil parish

Kilteevoge, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Cloghan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

935 people lived in 318 households in the Cloghan electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynaman, Cronadun, Drumderrydonan, Falgarrow, Glashagh Beg, Glashagh More

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Altatraght 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.