Ardnagalliagh
Townland in the civil parish of Drumhome, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 33 ha
- 81 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 14,116 m² (1.41 ha, 3.49 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardnagalliagh, from 937 m² to 100,366 m² (10.04 ha, 24.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Ardnagalliagh 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
No planning application touches the townland of Ardnagalliagh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 Ardnagalliagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ardnagalliagh.
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch former railway bridge, built c. 1905, carrying former Donegal Town to Ballyshannon narrow gauge railway line over small unnamed stream/tributary of the Ballintra River. Railway lines now out of use with tracks removed (c. 1960). Squared rock-faced stone construction to spandrels and to parapets with rock-faced coping over parapets; rock-faced buttresses to north and south elevations flanking arch. Segmental-headed arch with mildly rock-faced voussoirs to arch and squared coursed masonry to arch barrel. Deck/former railway line now covered in vegetation. Located a short distance to the south of the site of the former Ballintra Railway Station, and to the south-west of Ballintra.
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 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 Ardnagalliagh.
- 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 Ardnagalliagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Ardnagalliagh
- Area
- 329,705 m² (32.97 ha, 81.47 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
- Ballymagrorty Scotch, Ballynacarrick, Drumoske, Grahamstown, Lacklom, Moneymore
- Placenames
- Ardnagalliagh 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.