Annagary

1,066 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Annagary, from 3 m² to 184,029 m² (18.4 ha, 45.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 101 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Annagary 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.

• 10 Sept 2026N/a

  ATTIC DEVELOPMENT AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661682

• 14 Aug 2026N/a

  PARTIAL DEMOLITION AND RENOVATION OF AN EXISTING COTTAGE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE COTTAGE, TOGETHER WITH THE INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661510

• 4 Mar 2026Conditional

  (1) TEACH CÓNAITHE AGUS CÓRAS COIREÁLA SÉARACHAIS AGUS (2) CRÍOCHNÚ AN BHÓTHAIR ROCHTANA AGUS NA N-OIBREACHA LÁITHREÁIN GHAOLMHARA UILIG

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660332

• 23 Feb 2026Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND (2) CONVERSION OF EXISTING GARAGE TO A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SEWER INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660268

• 19 Feb 2026N/a

  (1) RETENTION OF GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND (2) CONVERSION OF EXISTING GARAGE TO A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SEWER INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660243

• 29 Jan 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF (1) DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (2) DOMESTIC GARAGE, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660119

• 8 Dec 2025Conditional

  (1) SINGLE STOREY REAR EXTENSION AND (2) ALL ELEVATIONAL CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS PLANNING REF. NO. 19/51628 AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SHOP FRONT AND SIGNAGE AS PER PREVIOUS PLANNING REF. NO. 19/51628 TO PROPOSED COFFEE HOUSE AND BISTRO

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2562162

• 5 Nov 2025Conditional

  (1) EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE USED AS GENERAL PURPOSE ROOM WITH WC ROOM AND ENTRANCE PORCH, (2) INTEGRATED DOMESTIC GARAGE BUILT TO THE SOUTH-WEST GABLE SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (3) RELOCATION OF THE SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561922

• 27 Aug 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER PLUS DOMESTIC GARAGE AND COMPLETION OF SITE ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550114

• 14 Jul 2025Conditional

  (1) CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN AND REPOSITIONING OF DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 21/51352 AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561193

• 23 May 2025Unconditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550073

• 12 May 2025Conditional

  ALTERATIONS AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560750

• 7 May 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC / GARDEN STORAGE SHED

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2550062

• 16 Apr 2025Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (2) PLACEMENT OF A TEMPORARY MOBILE HOME INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560585

• 11 Apr 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF (1) AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING STORAGE SHED AND (2) A PRIVATE GYMNASIUM AND STORAGE SHED WITH CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560549

• 3 Apr 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550038

• 3 Apr 2025Conditional

  DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK AS BUILT

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550037

• 11 Oct 2024Conditional

  REFURBISHMENT, EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461612

• 20 Sept 2024N/a

  EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461490

• 8 Sept 2024Conditional

  DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461380

• 10 Jul 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE TOGETHER WITH THE INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTE-WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461060

• 29 Feb 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460248

• 29 Aug 2023Conditional

  CAR WASH FACILITY INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351284

• 28 Jun 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350927

• 14 Apr 2023Conditional

  DRY STORAGE SHED INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350500

The 25 most recent of 55 applications.

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: Gweedore Bay and Islands SAC 001141
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gweedore Bay And Islands 001141

Recorded monuments

• DG041-007 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. 17m. A circular area enclosed by a ruined stone wall c. 3.65m in width and 0.6m in height. The interior is level. A number of field boundaries cross the site. It is reputed that there is a souterrain in the cashel. It is situated on high ground overlooking Annagary village and strand to the N in rough grazing, wet and rocky. 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

• Catholic Church of Saint Mary Star of the Sea, church/chapel, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Catholic church, built c.1858, having seven-bay nave, two-bay sacristy to east, three-bay gabled porch to west, and single-bay porch to north. Pitched cement-tile roof on corbels to eaves course, having rendered copings to raised parapets with gablet kneeler stones and stucco cross finials to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched cement-tile roof to sacristy and main porch. Smooth-rendered walls, having raised rendered and painted plinth course with pointed-arch niche over main porch on scrolled pedestal with pediment over and statue inset. Pointed-arch window openings with painted stone sills, raised render surrounds with hood-mouldings and stained-glass windows. Gothic Rose window to west, set within recessed ocular opening with hood-moulding. Square-headed doorways with timber diagonally battened double-leaf door to main entrance, approached by stone steps with rendered flanking walls. Interior has timber panelled balustrade to gallery of c.1903, supported on cast-iron columns with timber panelled balustrade to stairs, timber pews, raised altar with pairs of colonnettes supporting round-headed moulded opening to reredos. Roof has exposed timber trusses with timber sheeted ceiling. Graveyard to site, with formal lawn to north bounded by rubble stone wall.

• House, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey house, built c.1870, apparently originally pair of semi-detached houses, with door and window opening to ground floor of each and window to first floor, with further bay to southwest end (originally outbuilding). Now vacant. Pitched slate roof having rendered copings, raised eaves course with remains of cast-iron brackets and rainwater goods, and smooth-rendered chimneystacks with rendered copings. Lime-rendered walls with limewashed rubble stone to west and south elevations. Square-headed openings with remains of two-over-two-pane timber sliding sash windows with stone sills, and timber doors, one battened and one panelled. Set parallel to road and overlooking Annagary Strand to north.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Annagary with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Annagary · Anagaire

Area

7,539,631 m² (753.96 ha, 1,863.08 acres)

Civil parish

Templecrone, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Annagary, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Annagary electoral division: 2,274 people in 902 households; 83% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Crohyboyle, Drumnacart Mountain Pasture, Loughanure, Meenalecky, Meenbannad, Meenderrynasloe, Meenderryowan, Rinnafarset

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Annagary 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.