Ardagh

250 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardagh, from 27 m² to 287,771 m² (28.78 ha, 71.11 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 Ardagh 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.

• 14 Jul 2026Conditional

  EXTENSIONS BUILT ONTO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661304

• 30 Apr 2026N/a

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660762

• 14 Feb 2026Conditional

  INCREASING THE ROOF PITCH OF EXISTING DWELLING AND CONVERSION OF EXISTING GARAGE TO A LIVING ROOM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660196

• 26 Jan 2026Conditional

  FIRST FLOOR AREA, TOGETHER WITH ROOF LIGHTS TO THE FRONT OF THE PROPERTY

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660089

• 22 Dec 2025Conditional

  FIRST FLOOR CONVERSION AND FRONT PORCH AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCK AFFECTED HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES ON SITE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562327

• 14 Nov 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ON-SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561987

• 8 Nov 2025Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF 1½ STOREY DETACHED DWELLING WITH DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT 2 STOREY DETACHED DWELLING AND SINGLE STOREY DETACHED GARAGE WITH CONNECTION OF WASTEWATER INTO EXISTING ON-SITE PUBLIC SEWER TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561946

• 1 Aug 2025Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ON-SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561327

• 26 Jun 2024Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND DETACHED SHED (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND (3) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT 1½-STOREY DWELLING WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA, DETACHED GARAGE, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION.

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460963

• 23 May 2024Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING, DETACHED, DORMER BUNGALOW DWELLING HOUSE DAMAGED DUE TO DEFECTIVE (MICA) PRECAST CONCRETE BLOCKS, (2) RECONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DETACHED 1.5 STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALTERATIONS FROM THAT OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE. THE RELEVANT ASSOCIATED REPLACEMENT WORKS WILL BE CONNECTED TO THE EXISTING SITE SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460748

• 14 May 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460703

• 9 Apr 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING PROPERTY TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460487

• 24 Jan 2024Conditional

  (A) RELOCATION OF EXISTING ENTRANCE AND ACCESS LANE, (B) ERECTION OF A 2-STOREY DWELLING AND DETACHED GARAGE WITH FAMILY ROOM, (C) INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, INCLUDING CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460034

• 21 Dec 2023N/a

  (1) RELOCATION OF EXISTING ENTRANCE AND ACCESS LANE, (2) ERECTION OF A 2-STOREY DWELLING, DETACHED GARAGE WITH FAMILY ROOM, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351998

• 19 Dec 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351945

• 24 Nov 2022Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING UNFINISHED DWELLING (2) ERECTION OF A DWELLING AND DETACHED GARAGE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251895

• 8 Jul 2022Conditional

  A CONSERVATORY EXTENSION AND ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PERMISSION REF 96/273

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251173

• 11 May 2022Conditional

  (1) RELOCATION OF EXISTING ENTRANCE & ACCESS LANE (2) ERECTION OF A DWELLING, WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250811

• 31 Mar 2022Conditional

  (A) PARTIAL DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING OUTBUILDING AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW CONTAINERISED BIOMASS PLANT ROOM AND FUEL STORE (B) INSTALLATION OF PV ARRAY WITH SUPPORT FRAMING TOGETHER WITH AN ACCESS ROAD TO FACILITATE MAINTENANCE CONNECTED TO AN EXISTING GATE ON THE WESTERN BOUNDARY AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250551

• 2 Mar 2022Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STRUCTURE, ERECTION OF DWELLING, CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250366

• 10 Feb 2022N/a

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STRUCTURE AND (2) ERECTION OF A DWELLING, CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250205

• 4 Feb 2022Conditional

  EXTENSION BUILT ONTO DWELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250154

• 15 Nov 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DETACHED 1 1/2 STOREY DWELLING, NEW DETACHED GARAGE, A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE ALONG WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152263

• 22 Mar 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150494

• 1 Mar 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH ATTACHED GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150361

The 25 most recent of 49 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: North Inishowen Coast SAC 002012
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: North Inishowen Coast 002012

Recorded monuments

• DG003-007 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Tobar Muiris (Ó Muirgheasa No. 97). The exact location of this well could not be found. Recorded in 1936 as 'Tobar Muiris, or St. Maurice's Well, in the townland of Ardagh, at western end of Ballyliffin Strand. It is probably one of the most inaccessible wells in the whole country, and the making of the stations is difficult for strangers. It is located in the bed of a rivulet, and the water passes out in the form of a small cascade. There is no Saint Maurice shown in any of the Irish Martyrologies, and the late Monsignor Philip O'Doherty was unable to throw any light on the matter. The late Dr. Maguire, of the Diocese of Raphoe, was inclined to think that as the ancient herenaghs of Clonmany were Ó Muirgheasa, properly O'Morris, but here anglicised Morrison, the well may have some connection with this family. In the immediate neighbourhood are '"'beds" of Diarmuid and Columcille. A station used to be made at the well on the 15th August, but I have seen people also making it on other days during the summer' (Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 158). 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: 02 November 2011

• DG003-008 Souterrain
  Description

  A small drystone lined underground chamber 1.7m long NW-SE apparently flagstone roofed and high enough 'for a man to stand up in'. It is now inaccessible. 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

• DG003-009 Standing stone
  Description

  Located on a gentle E-facing slope, falling from a high rocky ridge at W. There are good views overlooking Pollan Bay which lies 700m to NE, with Malin Head on the distant horizon to N. When recorded by Lacy (1983, 74, no. 336) in the early 1980’s the stone stood on the line of an old field boundary in pastureland. The location has undergone development and is now incorporated into the garden of a modern house within a housing estate on the NW edge of Ballyliffin village. Indicated on the OS 6-inch maps as ‘Standing stone’ in an area named ‘Cloghorna’, this impressive, upright slab (Wth 0.97m E−W; T c. 0.3m) stands to a height of 3m, with its long axis aligned E-W. It has gently convex sides, tapering to a narrow edge at E and W, which gives it a roughly lozenge-shaped cross-section. The stone narrows towards the top, sloping upwards to E. It now leans to N, and its surface is moderately covered by lichen. Attached images: DG003-009----_01.JPG Standing stone viewed from S DG003-009----_02.JPG Standing stone viewed from E Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Revised upload: 27 October 2021

• DG003-022 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1900–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey with half-dormer attic level house, built c. 1920, having single-storey flat-roofed canted bay windows to either end of the front elevation (east), and with single-storey return to the centre of the rear elevation (west). Pitched natural slate roof having rendered eaves course, rendered chimneystacks to gable ends (north and south) with stepped coping, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Decorative coping with cornice to canted bays. Pebbledashed walls to front elevation (east) over smooth rendered eaves course, smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to the corners, lintel course and sill course, and with smooth rendered bands to the corners and mullions\columns to canted bay windows. Cement rendered walls to other elevations. Square-headed window openings to canted bays having, concrete sills, and with timber two-over-two and one-over-one horned sash windows; semi-circular window over doorway to centre at first floor level having timber window with radial glazing bars. Central square-headed door opening with smooth rendered surround, battened timber door with frosted toplights and sidelights, and concrete steps. Set in own grounds bound by roughcast rendered rubble stone wall to front. Lawned garden to the front (east) enclosed by hedging. Located to the north of Ballyliffin and to the south of Pollan Bay. Earlier house (see 40900308) to the rear.

• House, 1800–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1820 and extended c. 1900, having single-bay extension to south-west gable end, bed outshot to rear, single-storey kitchen return, and with windbreak porch to front having segmental head. Pitched corrugated-metal roof with rendered rubble stone chimneystacks to original gable ends, and with replacement rainwater goods. Limewashed rendered rubble stone walls, concrete block construction to extension to the south-west. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, and two-over-two pane horned timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to porch having battened timber door. Set back from road to the rear of later house (see 40903005), built c. 1920. Located to the north of Ballyliffin and to the south of Pollan Bay.

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 Ardagh, 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 Ardagh.

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.

• Ardagh, Ballyliffin6 sales

Name

Ardagh

Area

1,692,095 m² (169.21 ha, 418.13 acres)

Civil parish

Clonmany, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Ballyliffin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,529 people lived in 493 households in the Ballyliffin electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Ballyliffin, Ballymacmoriarty

Placenames

Ardagh 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.