Ardlougher
Townland in the civil parish of Lower Killybegs, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 74.2 ha
- 183 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 16,694 m² (1.67 ha, 4.13 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardlougher, from 563 m² to 231,690 m² (23.17 ha, 57.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Ardlougher 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
21 Feb 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350200
18 Sept 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951416
21 Nov 2017Conditional
A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH-WEST ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING, WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751743
16 Nov 2017Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751738
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 Ardlougher.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ardlougher.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardlougher.
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 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1180 (ZIP).
- 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 Ardlougher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Ardlougher
- Area
- 742,202 m² (74.22 ha, 183.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lower Killybegs, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Mulmosog, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Mulmosog electoral division: 238 people in 91 households; 80% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardvally, Cronkeeran, Meentanadea, Moy
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Ardlougher 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.