Ardeelan Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Drumhome, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 52.5 ha
- 130 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 4,869 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardeelan Upper, from 558 m² to 81,097 m² (8.11 ha, 20.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ardeelan Upper 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
10 Sept 2025Conditional
MOBILE HOME ON HARDSTAND ALONG WITH EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM FOR A PERIOD OF 2 YEARS AND PERMISSION FOR (1) ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH INFILTRATION AREA AND (2) ALTERATIONS AND WIDENING OF EXISTING ENTRANCE
Retention, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2561553
1 Jun 2022Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT GRANTED PREVIOUSLY UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 21/51607
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250951
25 Apr 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE & CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250715
10 Aug 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151607
22 Mar 2021Conditional
REVISED LOCATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150491
29 Jan 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150110
24 Apr 2019Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE INCORPORATING THE CREATION OF A NEW ACCESS ROAD AND CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950582
24 Apr 2019Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE INCORPORATING THE CREATION OF A NEW ACCESS ROAD AND CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950583
6 Dec 2017Conditional
THE INCREASE OF RIDGE HEIGHT AND ADDITION OF A MEZZANINE FLOOR TO EXISTING SHED
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1751830
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ardeelan Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ardeelan Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardeelan Upper.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ardeelan Upper.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ardeelan Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Ardeelan Upper
- Area
- 525,034 m² (52.5 ha, 129.74 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumhome, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirhugh
- Electoral division
- Ballintra, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballintra electoral division: 755 people in 290 households; 81% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 41% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardeelan Lower, Cashel, Cool Beg, Rosscat, Rossnowlagh Upper or Crockahany
- Placenames
- Ardeelan Upper 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.