# Ardchicken, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donegal, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 230,661 m² (23.07 ha, 57 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 31,443 m² (3.14 ha, 7.77 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/donegal.md - Barony: Tirhugh - Electoral division: Donegal, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 4,179 people lived in 1,617 households in the Donegal electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14025 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50076 - Centre: latitude 54.643167, longitude -8.112081 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardchicken, from 219 m² to 84,588 m² (8.46 ha, 20.9 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1300642: 84,588 m² (8.46 ha, 20.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1300642.md - Parcel 1333323: 82,304 m² (8.23 ha, 20.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333323.md - Parcel 1330125: 32,801 m² (3.28 ha, 8.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330125.md - Parcel 1357935: 30,086 m² (3.01 ha, 7.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357935.md - Parcel 1426469: 554 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426469.md - Parcel 1369047: 219 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369047.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ardchicken in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 7 applications, newest first. - 13 May 2026, Donegal County Council 2660858: N/a. Permission, 1 home. WORKS TO PROPERTY, A PROTECTED STRUCTURE, RPS NO: 40909946 KNOWN AS MAGHERABEG HOUSE CONSISTING OF THE FOLLOWING: (1) PROPOSED CHANGE OF USE FROM AN EXISTING PRIVATE DWELLING TO SHORT-TERM GUEST ACCOMMODATION, (2) DEMOLITION OF NON-ORIGINAL EXTENSIONS TO THE REAR (NORTH-WEST) SIDE OF THE HOUSE, (3) ADDITION OF A NEW ORANGERY EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH OF THE HOUSE, (4) INTERIOR ALTERATIONS AND REFURBISHMENT WORKS TO THE MAIN BUILDING, (5) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO NORTH-WEST OF THE HOUSE TO INCLUDE UTILITY AND SERVICE SPACES, (6) ADDITION OF NEW BAY WINDOW TO THE NORTH OF THE HOUSE, (7) PROPOSED CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING OUTBUILDING IN REAR COURTYARD TO ENTERTAINMENT SPACE INCLUDING ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND THE ADDITION OF A NEW STORE TO THE SOUTHWEST, (8) CREATION OF NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE FROM R-267, (9) CREATION OF NEW SELF-CONTAINED RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION WITHIN AN EXISTING DETACHED OUTBUILDING ANCILLARY TO MAGHERABEG HOUSE, (10) REDUCTION IN LEVELS TO EXTEND GARDENS TO THE SOUTH-WEST, (11) WORKS TO THE GROUNDS WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF THE PROTECTED STRUCTURE INCLUDING DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND CONNECTION TO THE PUBLIC SEWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660858/0 - 10 Apr 2026, Donegal County Council 2660604: Refused. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING THE INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A SCREENING REPORT FOR APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT HAS BEEN CARRIED OUT IN RESPECT OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660604/0 - 6 Aug 2024, Donegal County Council 2461201: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. RELOCATION OF A DWELLING AND SEPTIC TANK, AMENDMENTS TO THE ELEVATIONS OF THE DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS FROM THAT WHICH WAS GRANTED PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF : 96/236. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461201/0 - 11 Jun 2024, Donegal County Council 2460871: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. CHANGE OF USE FROM LOFT STORAGE TO SELF-CONTAINED LIVING ACCOMMODATION ANCILLARY TO THE USE OF THE DWELLING HOUSE, INCLUDING PROVISION OF VELUX TYPE ROOFLIGHTS IN A DETACHED OUTBUILDING TO THE REAR OF MAGHERABEG HOUSE (WHICH IS A PROTECTED STRUCTURE REF NO. 40909946). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460871/0 - 5 Oct 2022, Donegal County Council 2251660: Conditional. Permission. (1) CHANGE OF USE OF 201 METRES SQ. OF EXISTING WAREHOUSE TO OFFICE SPACE (2) ELEVATIONAL CHANGES INCLUDING NEW FEATURE ENTRANCE TO SIDE OF BUILDING AND NEW WINDOWS (3) PROVISION OF (A) NEW CANOPY TO FRONT OF BUILDING (B) NEW CARPARKING ARRANGEMENTS ON SITE (C) NEW SIGNAGE AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251660/0 - 20 Apr 2022, Donegal County Council 2250689: Conditional. Outline permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING THE INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND FOR ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2250689/0 - 13 Jan 2021, Donegal County Council 2150023: Unconditional. Extension of duration. CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING FACTORY TO PROVIDE FOR ADDITIONAL CLEAN ROOM PRODUCTION/FACTORY AREAS, GENERAL STORAGE AND SERVICES BAYS WITH A TWO STORY ELEMENT CONTAINING ADMINISTRATION OFFICES, LABORATORIES, RECEPTION, TOILETS, PROVISION OF A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE ONTO THE ESTATE ROAD AND PROVISION OF ADDITIONAL CAR PARKING AND A NEW ACCESS ROAD AROUND THE SIDE AND REAR OF THE NEW BUILDING, CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY ESB SUB-STATION, CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING FOUL AND STORM WATER DRAINAGE NETWORKS, PROVISION OF A STORM WATER ATTENUATION UNDERGROUND TANK AND CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING MAINS WATER SUPPLY NETWORK. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL BE PHASED WITH PHASE ONE BEING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE STORAGE AND SERVICE BAY ELEMENT OF THE OVERALL BUILDING EXTENSION PROPOSAL AND STAGE TWO BEING THE COMPLETION OF THE FACTORY/PRODUCTION AREAS AND RECEPTION/OFFICES. ALL TO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED BOUNDARY TREATMENTS AND SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND CONNECTION TO ROADS AND SERVICES ALL AT THE (FORMER IDA) BUSINESS/ INDUSTRIAL PARK. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2150023/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Donegal Bay (Murvagh) SAC, site code 000133, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000133 - Special Protection Area: Donegal Bay SPA, site code 004151, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004151 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Donegal Bay (Murvagh), site code 000133 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ardchicken. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardchicken. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ardchicken, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1435, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1435.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardchicken.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardchicken.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardchicken.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ardchicken with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Lurganboy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lurganboy-51814.md - Raforker: https://everytownland.com/donegal/raforker.md - Rarooey: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rarooey.md - Tullaghcullion: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tullaghcullion.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardchicken - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/ardchicken