Ardmalin

671 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardmalin, from 5 m² to 236,791 m² (23.68 ha, 58.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ardmalin 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.

• 28 Aug 2026N/a

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCK DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING, (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCK GARAGE AND TEMPORARY PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A 2 BED AUXILIARY RESIDENTIAL UNIT AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO EXISTING TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2661594

• 26 Aug 2026N/a

  (1) RETENTION OF MINOR ALTERATION TO EXISTING SHED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 19/51771 AND (2) COMPLETION OF WORKS TO THE SHED, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661579

• 23 Aug 2026N/a

  RENOVATION AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661564

• 27 Apr 2026N/a

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION WITH EXTENSIVE DEMOLITION AND RENOVATIONS TO AN EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DWELLING CONSISTING OF A NEW ENTRANCE HALL WITH AN OPEN PLAN LIVING/KITCHEN/DINING TO THE GROUND FLOOR WITH A UTILITY AND 3 NO. BEDROOMS, ONE WITH EN SUITE AND BATHROOM TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN UPGRADED SITE ENTRANCE, LOCATED AT THE EXISTING ENTRANCE AND (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS NECESSARY TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660738

• 16 Apr 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DWELLING CONSISTING OF A NEW ENTRANCE HALL WITH AN OPEN PLAN LIVING/KITCHEN/DINING TO THE GROUND FLOOR WITH A UTILITY AND 3 NO. BEDROOMS, ONE WITH EN SUITE AND BATHROOM TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, INCLUDING THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN UPGRADED SITE ENTRANCE, LOCATED AT THE EXISTING ENTRANCE, TOGETHER WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS NECESSARY TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660659

• 14 Apr 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING GARAGE AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL AND DEVELOPMENT OF A PLAY AREA TO THE FIRST FLOOR

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660635

• 23 Mar 2026Conditional

  DOMESTIC SHED, EXTENSION TO SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660470

• 20 Mar 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION CONNECTING AN EXISTING DWELLING AND ANCILLARY BUILDING, ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660457

• 17 Feb 2026Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF (A) DEMOLITION AND REBUILD OF COTTAGE, (B) EXTENSION AND MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO EXTENSION PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 98/2874, (C) FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION, (D) PARTIAL DEMOLITION AND EXTENSION TO SHED, (E) TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION IN SHED, (F) ENTRANCE, (G) SHED AND (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND REPLACEMENT WITH A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660214

• 17 Dec 2025N/a

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DWELLING CONSISTING OF A NEW ENTRANCE HALL WITH AN OPEN PLAN LIVING/KITCHEN/DINING TO THE GROUND FLOOR WITH A UTILITY AND 3 NO. BEDROOMS, ONE WITH EN SUITE, AND BATHROOM TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN UPGRADED SITE ENTRANCE, LOCATED AT THE EXISTING ENTRANCE AND (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS NECESSARY TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562260

• 14 Aug 2025Conditional

  (A) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE BLOCKS (PLANNING REF. NO. 97/1172 REFERS) AND (B) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561397

• 3 Jul 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561135

• 16 Jun 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561006

• 3 Mar 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING, DETACHED, DORMER BUNGALOW HOUSE DAMAGED DUE TO DEFECTIVE (MICA) PRECAST CONCRETE BLOCKS AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DETACHED, DORMER BUNGALOW HOUSE WITH ALTERATIONS FROM THAT OF THE EXISTING HOUSE AND THE RELEVANT ASSOCIATED REPLACEMENT WORKS TO BE CONNECTED TO THE EXISTING SITE SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560281

• 20 Feb 2025Conditional

  (1) LOCATION OF DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PERMISSION (PLANNING REF. NO. 03/5681 REFERS) AND (2) GRANNY FLAT

  Retention, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2560218

• 11 Nov 2024Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE TO SOUTH-EAST OF EXISTING HOUSE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE AND HALF STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH-EAST OF THE HOUSE, (3) RENOVATION WORKS TO EXISTING HOUSE INCLUDING ELEVATIONAL CHANGES, (4) UPGRADE OF EXISTING EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461809

• 11 Nov 2024Conditional

  DETACHED BASEMENT STRUCTURE CONTAINING A RAINWATER HARVESTING SYSTEM TO THE EAST OF THE HOUSE AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE-STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE OVER THE EXISTING BASE OF THE RAINWATER HARVESTING SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461805

• 8 Nov 2024Conditional

  THE FOLLOWING WORKS TO A PROTECTED STRUCTURE, NO. 40900103: (1) DEMOLITION OF NON-ORIGINAL BEDROOM EXTENSION TO WEST SIDE OF HOUSE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) NEW BEDROOM EXTENSION TO THE WEST SIDE OF HOUSE AND (B) UTILITY/TOILET AREA TO THE NORTH (REAR) SIDE OF THE HOUSE, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED STORE AND GAZEBO TO REAR OF THE HOUSE, (4) RENOVATION WORKS TO HOUSE TO PROVIDE NEW WINDOWS, ROOF WORKS AND MINOR INTERNAL ALTERATIONS, (5) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PROVISION OF A NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND (6) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461795

• 18 Oct 2024N/a

  (1) DEMOLITION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE TO SOUTH-EAST OF EXISTING HOUSE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE AND HALF STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH-EAST OF THE HOUSE, (3) RENOVATION WORKS TO EXISTING HOUSE INCLUDING ELEVATIONAL CHANGES, (4) UPGRADE OF EXISTING EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461661

• 18 Oct 2024N/a

  THE FOLLOWING WORKS TO A PROTECTED STRUCTURE, NO. 40900103: (1) DEMOLITION OF NON-ORIGINAL BEDROOM EXTENSION TO WEST SIDE OF HOUSE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) NEW BEDROOM EXTENSION TO THE WEST SIDE OF HOUSE AND (B) UTILITY/TOILET AREA TO THE NORTH (REAR) SIDE OF THE HOUSE, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED STORE AND GAZEBO TO REAR OF THE HOUSE, (4) RENOVATION WORKS TO HOUSE TO PROVIDE NEW WINDOWS, ROOF WORKS AND MINOR INTERNAL ALTERATIONS, (5) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PROVISION OF A NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND (6) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461663

• 18 Oct 2024N/a

  DETACHED BASEMENT STRUCTURE CONTAINING A RAINWATER HARVESTING SYSTEM TO THE EAST OF THE HOUSE AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE-STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE OVER THE EXISTING BASE OF THE RAINWATER HARVESTING SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461662

• 1 Oct 2024Conditional

  SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461545

• 11 Sept 2024Unconditional

  TEACH CÓNAITHE, CÓRAS CÓIREALA SÉARACHAIS AGUS ITHIR SCAGAIR SNASAITHE, CHOMH MAITH LE HOIBREACHA SÚIOMH A DHÉANAMH. BEIDH RÁITEAS TIONCHAR NÁDÚRTHA (NIS) MAR CHUID DEN IARRATAS SEO

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450204

• 11 Jun 2024Conditional

  EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460874

• 19 Mar 2024Refused

  RENOVATION OF EXISTING DERELICT COTTAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL WORKS RELATING TO SAME, INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460352

The 25 most recent of 79 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
• Special Protection Area: Malin Head SPA 004146
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: North Inishowen Coast 002012

Recorded monuments

• DG001-001001 Hut site
  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.

• DG001-001002 Field boundary
  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.

• DG001-003 Children's burial ground
  Description

  A slightly raised area between a pebble and a sand beach known as a 'Children's Burial Ground'. The site, which formerly had grave markers, has been destroyed by sand quarrying 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

• DG001-006 Signal tower
  Description

  Situated at the top of a small hill slightly to the E of the Malin Head (69m OD). Located on a rocky outcrop at the top of the hill, with a steep slope to the SE and gentle slopes to the N, W and SW. Atlantic Ocean located 300m to N at nearest point. Located 300m to the SSW of a standing stone (DG001-002002-) located on Dunaldragh, a small barren rocky offshore island. The surrounding area consists of partially enclosed blanket bog, with enclosed pasture to the S. The signal tower has unobstructed views in all directions. The signal tower at Fanad Head (DG009-012----), located 19.6kms to the SW, has been demolished with a later lighthouse constructed on its site. The signal tower has been modified, but many elements of its original form are still recognisable. A nineteenth-century two-storey, square-plan tower, built with roughly coursed rubble stone (ext. dims. 5.9m NW-SE x 5.9m SW-NE). The modified signal tower survives to its full height (c. 11.5m H). The signal tower is positioned with its walls facing NE, SE, SW and NW. The entire exterior of the tower had been covered in smooth cement render, giving it a ‘modern’ appearance. A photograph dated 1902 shows that the render had been applied by that point. The NW wall features at first-floor square-headed doorway originally accessed via a retractable ladder. The doorway is protected by a complete machicolation over, supported on three moulded cut-stone corbels, now rendered. A square-headed ground floor window has been added under the first floor doorway, then subsequently bricked up. The NE and SW walls would originally had pairs of square-headed window openings to the ground floor and the first floors but these have been subsequently blocked up. A narrow damaged square- or shallow-segmental-headed doorway, and a square-headed window opening have been added to the NE wall, now blocked up. An impression in the render suggests a small addition had been built up against the E corner of the NE wall, and subsequently removed. The 1902 photograph of the tower shows a single-storey shed with lean-to roof at this location. An impression in the render on the SE wall suggests that a small centrally located addition was constructed and subsequently removed. A centrally-located ground floor window has been added to the SE elevation. A tall centrally positioned chimneystack extends from the top of the SE wall. A second, tall narrow chimneystack is located at the E edge of the SE wall. Bartizans are located at the E and S corners of the building, each supported by three corbels. The base of all four walls of the signal tower have a pronounced batter. A set of contemporary illustrations of the site by Sir William Smith (dated between 1804 and 1808) show that the signal station consisted of a standard signal tower design, with a single-storey, gable-roofed building to the S of the signal tower, and a signal mast to the W of the signal tower. The building to the S of the signal tower is shown in drawings that pre-dated the construction of the signal tower and may have been used to house the signal crew or builders prior to the completion of the signal tower. The signal tower had a pronounced batter at the base of its walls, a tall chimneystack on top of the SE wall, and gun loops on all four sides of the bartizans, and on all three sides of the machicolation over the door. The signal tower was originally set in a rectangular enclosure, as shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, surveyed 1834-6, but above ground no traces of that enclosure have survived. The signal station seems to have been abandoned at the same time as the other stations in the system (c. 1810). During the 1880s the abandoned site was recommissioned by Lloyds of London as the location of a ship-to-shore semaphore station. In the early 1900s it was home to several sets of experimental radio broadcasting equipment and the site saw service again during World War 2 when a lookout post was constructed c. 60m to the NW. To the NE of the signal tower there is a small stone walled rectangular structure that may not have been roofed. This structure is identified as a 'barometer' on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the Ordnance Survey maps, surveyed 1848 and 1900-5 respectively. To the W of the signal tower there is a poured-concrete single floor structure identified as a ‘semaphore watch house’ on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the Ordnance Survey maps (NIAH 40900113). The structure is shown on the 1902 photograph of the site with a flag signal mast on top of its roof and a larger flag signal mast to the W of the structure. To the W of the semaphore watch house there is a well-preserved World War 2 era Lookout Post (L.O.P. 80; NIAH 40900104). To the N of the signal tower there is a large rectangular enclosure defined by a tall wall. Inside the enclosure there is a small rectangular concrete building that has been identified as a small World War 2 era quarters for the personnel manning the L.O.P. 80 (Horner & Brown 2014). A well preserved ‘Eire Sign 80’ can be seen at the back of the foreshore, 180m NE of the signal station site. The NIAH summarised the complex later history of this site as follows, ‘The tower apparently later served as a weather station during the second half of the nineteenth century. It was subsequently in use as a signal tower for the insurance company Lloyds of London, c. 1890, when information on shipping arriving across the Atlantic (Lloyds of London underwrote the insurance for many transatlantic shipping and mercantile ventures) was passed from a semaphore station on the offshore island of Inishtrahull, and to and from shipping to Malin Head, and eventually on to London. The tower was probably rendered around this time. In 1901, Guglielmo Marconi (1874 - 1930) established a radio signal station adjacent to Lloyd's Tower (see 40900113), and in 1902 succeeded in sending the first commercial radio message from Malin Head to the ship S.S. Lake Ontario. Apparently, the radio station was involved in the sea trials of the radio system on the ill-fated RMS Titanic in April 1912. Later the station was taken over by the Post Office for communication purposes” (NIAH 40900101).’ The signal tower was part of a system of over 80 signal stations constructed by the British Board of Ordnance in the first decade of the 19th century to warn of the approach of a French invasion fleet. Signalling between sites was accomplished using a naval signal post. The system formed a continuous chain from Dublin Bay running clockwise all the way around the coast to Malin Head in County Donegal. It was abandoned by the mid-1810s when the threat of a French invasion diminished (Kerrigan 1995, 157-66). Compiled by: Stuart Rathbone Uploaded on: 13/08/21 Images: DG001-006----.01.jpg Context from WNW DG001-006----.02.jpg N Oblique Exterior DG001-006----.03.jpg NE Exterior 1 DG001-006----.04.jpg NE Exterior 2 DG001-006----.05.jpg NW Exterior DG001-006----.06.jpg S Oblique Exterior DG001-006----.07.jpg SE Exterior DG001-006----.08.jpg SW Exterior DG001-006----.09.jpg W Oblique Exterior DG001-006----.10.jpg E Oblique Exterior DG001-006----.11.jpg Semaphore Station to W, looking N DG001-006----.12.jpg Ancillary building to N, looking NW DG001-006----.13.jpg ‘Eire’ Sign to N DG001-006----.14.jpg Lookout Post to N, looking E

Architectural heritage

• Malin Signal Tower, watch tower, signal tower, 1800–1900
  Description

  Freestanding three-storey former signal tower on square-plan, built c. 1805, having machicolations to south-east and south-west corners, and to centre of north elevation at parapet level. Subsequently in use as a weather\ meteorological station, c. 1870, later a signal tower\semaphore station associated with Lloyds of London, c. 1890, and later as a post office telegraph station, c. 1910. Now out of use and derelict. Evidence of single-storey addition formerly attached to west and east elevations, now demolished. flat-roof, now collapsed, originally hidden behind raised parapet having two rendered chimneystacks with clay pots over to the south elevation. Rubble stone constructed, cement rendered c. 1900, with pronounced batter to base. Square-headed window openings now mostly blocked with modern blockwork, some surviving stone sills and later concrete sills. Original window fittings now gone. Square-headed doorway to the north elevation, now infilled with modern blockwork. Originally doorway possibly to the centre of the north elevation, now infilled. Located in prominent and elevated location to the north end of Malin Head with cliffs and the Atlantic Ocean to the north. Low rendered rubble stone boundary walls to the north-east of tower. Ruinous detached single-bay single-storey former World War Two watchman's station (see 40900101) to the north-west of site, and probable former radio\telegraph stations (see 40900113) located adjacent to the north-west and north of site.

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1860, with windbreak porch and modern single-bay thatched extension to rear. Round pitched flax roof with latticed restraining wire and timber pegs, iron pegs to extension, limewashed rendered chimneystacks. Limewashed render to walls. Square-headed window openings over painted cut stone sills with timber four-over-four horned sash windows. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door with inset glazed oval panel. Set in own grounds bound by limewashed rubble stone walls, gate piers with decorative concrete ball finials. Detached two-bay two-storey outbuilding to north-east, external steps to first floor south-west gable, pitched artificial slate roof, concrete gable copings, replacement rainwater goods, remnant limewashed render to rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings, timber two-over four sash and fixed frame windows. Square-headed door openings, timber half doors. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding to north, with pitched corrugated-metal roof, remnant limewashed render to rubble stone walls, square-headed door openings, timber half doors.

• Malin Head Watchman's Hut, watch tower, 1939–1945
  Description

  Remains of single-bay single-cell single-storey World War Two-era coastal watchman's hut, in use c. 1939-45, having canted front elevation (north). Now out of use. Flat concrete roof. Mass concrete walls having square-headed window openings, fittings now gone. Square-headed doorway to the north-west elevation, fittings now gone. Located in a prominent location on an elevated site close to the north side of tip of Malin Head, and adjacent to former Napoleonic-era signal tower (see 40900101) and former semaphore and\or telegraph station (see 40900113). 'Eire' sign painted on rocks adjacent to site.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1820, windbreak porch to front, bed outshot to rear. Pitched artificial slate roof, limewashed rendered chimneystacks, replacement rainwater goods. Limewashed render to rubble stone walls, painted render to plinth and wall corners. Square-headed window openings over painted cut stone sills, replacement timber four-over-four horned sash windows. Square-headed door opening, timber panelled door to porch. Set in own grounds bound by limewashed rubble stone walls with cast-iron gate. Ruined formerly thatched two-bay single-storey house across yard to east, single-bay byre to either end, remnant limewashed render to rubble stone walls.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house with modern dormer to rear, built c. 1820, windbreak porch to front, two-bay extension to north with single-bay shed attached. Round pitched flax thatched roof with latticed wire and timber pegs, corrugated-metal to extension, corrugated-metal mono-pitch roof to shed, timber framed five-panelled dormer window to rear, limewashed rendered chimneystacks to gables, concrete gable copings. Limewashed render to rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings over painted cut stone sills, and with six-over-six and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening having timber panelled door to windbreak porch. Set in own grounds bound by hedge; outbuilding to east with rounded pitched flax thatched roof with latticed wire and timber pegs, limewashed rubble stone walls.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1820, incorporating byre to south gable, with windbreak porch to front and modern thatched extension to rear. Rounded pitched flax thatched roof with latticed wire, iron rods and timber pegs, and with chimneystacks to gable ends. Limewashed render to rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings over painted cut stone sills, and with six-over-six pane horned timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door openings with timber glazed and panelled half-door to windbreak porch and half door to incorporated byre. Set in own grounds adjacent road with modern rubble stone wall to rear. Two ruined outbuildings to north and north-west, formerly thatched with rubble stone walls.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1820, with windbreak porch to front. Rounded pitched flax thatched roof with latticed wire and timber pegs, chimneystacks to gable ends. Limewashed render to rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with painted cut stone sills, and with six-over-six pane horned timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening with timber matchboard door. Set in own grounds adjacent road with two-bay single-storey outbuilding to north having pitched corrugated-metal roof and limewashed rubble stone walls.

• House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1840, with windbreak porch to front and bed outshot to rear. Now no longer inhabited. Modern house to east gable. Rounded pitched flax thatched roof with latticed wire, iron rod and timber pegs to eaves, and with chimneystacks to west gable end and to the centre. Limewashed rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with painted cut stone sills, and with remains of six-over-six pane horned timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door. Set back from road in own grounds. Site bounded to road-frontage by rubble stone wall with detached two-bay single-storey byre to rear having pitched corrugated-metal roof and rubble stone walls.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1820 and extended c. 1860, having windbreak porch to front (east), and two single-bay single-storey outbuildings attached to the north gable end. Pitched artificial slate roof with three limewashed rendered chimneystacks, and with replacement rainwater goods. Formerly thatched. Corrugated-metal roof to attached outbuildings. Cement rendered rubble stone walls to dwelling, limewashed rubble stone walls to outbuildings. Irregularly-spaced square-headed window openings with stone sills, smooth rendered reveals, and with six-over-six and four-over-four pane horned timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to windbreak porch having battened timber door. Square-headed doorways to outbuildings having battened timber doors. Set in own grounds bounded by limewashed rubble stone walls, gate piers with decorative concrete ball finials over. Detached outbuilding to south having pitched corrugated-metal roof, rubble stone walls with concrete block extension to south, and square-headed doorways with battened timber doors; detached single-bay single-storey outbuilding to the south-west having mono-pitched corrugated-metal roof, limewashed rubble stone walls, and square-headed doorway.

• Marconi Telegraph Station, semaphore station, telegraph station, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay single-storey former semaphore and\or telegraph station, built c. 1900, having projecting single-bay single-storey porches to the north and south elevations. Now ruinous and out of use. Flat reinforced concrete roof with concrete base of former radio mast to centre. Reinforced concrete walls having square-headed window openings, fittings now gone. Square-headed doorway to the east elevation of porch to the south, fittings now gone. Detached two-bay single-storey structure to the east having flat reinforced concrete roof and walls, and square-headed door and window openings (fittings now gone). Located in a prominent elevated location on an elevated site close to the north end of Malin Head, and adjacent to the former Napoleonic-era signal tower (see 40900101) and a World War Two-era watchman’s hut (see 40900104).

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1820 and extended c. 1870, having projecting gable-fronted porch, two-bay extension to north gable, two-bay outbuilding to the south gable. Pitched natural slate roof with concrete gable coping to south gable, rendered corbelled chimneystacks to gables and to extension gable, decorative timber bargeboard to gable-fronted porch, and replacement rainwater goods. Painted render to rubble stone walls, painted pilaster quoins and plinth. Square-headed window openings with stone sills six-over-six pane horned timber sash windows. Recessed square-headed door opening, toplight, painted rectangular timber side panels, plinth blocks and concrete step, timber sheeted door. Fronts directly onto lane sloping to sea.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1820 and altered c. 1900, with projecting windbreak porch to front elevation (east), extended to rear and by incorporating five-bay formerly separate dwelling to the south. Pitched corrugated roof having rendered brick chimneystacks to gables, roughcast chimneystack to extension, replacement rainwater goods. Painted render over rubble stone walls, and with block-and-start quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, and with two-over-two pane horned timber sliding sash windows, replacement windows to rear and gable, one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows formerly separate dwelling to the south. Square-headed door opening having timber panelled door, half-door to formerly separate dwelling to the south. Fronts directly onto lane sloping to sea. Located to the extreme north end of Malin Head.

• Post box, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c. 1905, with 'ER VII' royal cipher and raised crown motif. Raised 'Post Office' lettering to letter flap and foundry name to the base reading .W T ALLEN & Co. LONDON'. Mounted in painted rendered gate pier to wall surrounding Crossroads Inn, adjacent to road, and just to the south of Malin Head.

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey house, built c. 1880, having projecting gable-fronted porch, and single-storey extension to rear (north-east). Pitched natural slate roof with thin cement copings to gable ends (north-west and south-east), corbelled chimneystacks to gable ends (yellow brick to north-west gable and cement rendered to south-east gable), and with remnant cast-iron rainwater goods. Possibly original a schoolmaster's house, now unoccupied. Painted smooth rendered lined-and-ruled rendered walls to front elevation (south-west), porch and south-east gable having raised smooth rendered block-and-start quoins and smooth rendered sill course; painted roughcast rendered walls to the north-west gable end to other gable. Segmental-headed window openings with painted sills, decorative smooth render surrounds, and with two-over-two pane horned timber sliding sash windows; smooth rendered hoodmoulding over window opening to porch having decorative label stops. Square-headed door opening to south-east elevation of projecting porch with battened timber door. Set back from road in own grounds to the south of Malin Head. Bounded on road-frontage to the south-west by rendered rubble stone wall; yard to rear with two attached outbuildings.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, having central windbreak porch to front, and bed outshot to rear. Round pitched flax thatch roof with latticed restraining wire, iron rod and iron pegs, limewashed rendered chimneystacks to gables. Limewashed render over rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, and four-over-four pane horned timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to windbreak porch having replacement glazed timber door. Set in own grounds off road bound by hedge.

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Radon

At the centre of the townland of Ardmalin, about 1 in 5 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. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Ardmalin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Ardmalin · Ard Mhálanna

Area

8,267,113 m² (826.71 ha, 2,042.85 acres)

Civil parish

Clonca, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Ardmalin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

673 people lived in 237 households in the Ardmalin electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 43% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygorman, Bree, Culoort, Keenagh

Placenames

Ardmalin 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.