Ardnaglass

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardnaglass, from 18 m² to 45,172 m² (4.52 ha, 11.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ardnaglass 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.

• 13 Nov 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A PORTAL FRAMED STABLE BLOCK, DRY FEED STORAGE AREA AND CONCRETE APRON INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561979

• 26 Oct 2025Conditional

  REMOVAL OF EXISTING PORCH AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENDED PORCH WITH RAMPED ACCESS TO THE FRONT ELEVATION, THE INFILL OF THE EXISTING ARCHWAY TO CONSTRUCT AN ENSUITE BEDROOM AND TO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561863

• 20 Jun 2025Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A PORTAL FRAMED STABLE BLOCK, DRY FEED STORAGE AREA AND CONCRETE APRON INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561040

• 10 Feb 2025Conditional

  REDEVELOPMENT OF THE COTTAGE AND SAWMILL COMPLEX TO DELIVER COMMERCIAL AND LEISURE FACILITIES AND DEVELOPMENT OF SITE CAR PARKING (RPS PROTECTED STRUCTURES NO. 40850001)

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560156

• 27 Jan 2025N/a

  REDEVELOPMENT OF THE COTTAGE AND SAWMILL COMPLEX TO DELIVER COMMERCIAL AND LEISURE FACILITIES ALONG WITH DEVELOPMENT OF SITE CAR PARKING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560086

• 5 Dec 2022Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING EXTENSION AND (2) ALTERATIONS TO THE MILL WORKERS COTTAGE (RPS NO. 40850002 REFERS), RAISED VALLEY AND NEW ROOFLIGHTS TO THE CORN MILL ROOF AND NEW ROOFLIGHTS TO THE SAW MILL ROOF (RPS NO. 40850001 REFERS)

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251948

• 21 Jun 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO BAY SLATTED SHED, THE OVER ROOFING OF EXISTING CATTLE PEN AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251075

• 31 Mar 2017Refused

  (1) RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF THE EXISTING OFF STREET PARKING AND SET DOWN AREA (OPPOSITE THE EXISTING GARAGE); (2) EXCAVATION OF AREA TO THE SIDE OF THE EXISTING GARAGE TO PROVIDE AN OFF-STREET PARKING/SET DOWN AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750467

• 17 Jan 2017Conditional

  RE-ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL BUILDING OVER AN EXISTING SLATTED TANK AND FEED PASSAGE, FOLLOWING PREVIOUS DEMOLITION OF STEEL STRUCTURE, FOR PURPOSES OF ACCOMMODATING SHEEP AND FOR LAYING A CONCRETE APRON AROUND SAME

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750040

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ardnaglass.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ardnaglass.

Architectural heritage

• Pettigo Corn and Saw Mill, mill (water), 1810–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of former corn and saw mill buildings, built c. 1820 and extended in 1851, comprising main eight-bay two- and storey building to building to the north and three-bay three-storey building to the south. Later also in use as a power generation station c. 1930 – 1962. Now out of use. Possibly incorporating fabric from earlier corn mill to site in existence in 1756. Brick and stone bridge over basement level to north-east elevation of main building, giving access to entrances to upper storey. Cut stone and brick bridge over basement level to three-storey building to the south. Remains of iron mill wheel with timber paddles and associated machinery to south-east corner of main building; mill wheel set in wheel pit with rubble stone retaining walls. Pitched natural slate roofs with clay ridge tile, projecting stone eaves courses, and some remaining sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed squared rubble stone walls having flush ashlar block-and-start quoins to the corners. Shallow segmental-headed windows having stone sills, red brick voussoirs and with remains of multi-pane timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed door openings having red brick voussoirs and remains of timber sheeted doors and double-doors. Cut stone surrounds and cut stone plinth blocks to a number of doorways. Set back from road in extensive grounds on the west bank of the Termon River. Site slopes from the west to the east towards the river. Located to the north of Pettigoe. Rubble stone walls and remains of buildings, now demolished, to site. Remains of former weir to the north-east of complex. Former offices (see 40850002 located adjacent to the south-west. Rubble stone boundary wall with rounded rock-faced coping over to road-frontage to the west and south-west. Gateways to the north and south ends of boundary wall comprising a pair of ashlar stone gate piers (on square-plan) having cut stone coping over with stone ball finials; wrought-iron flat bar gates.

• Pettigo Corn and Saw Mill, office, outbuilding, mill manager's house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay split level two-storey/single-storey over basement former mill office or offices associated with former corn, flax and saw mill complex adjacent to the north and east (see 40850001). Three-bay single-storey addition to the north-west elevation, c. 1930. Now out of use. Pitched natural slate roof having rendered chimneystacks, projecting stone eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed squared rubble stone walls with ashlar stone quoins to the corners. Segmental-headed window openings having stone sills, red brick voussoirs, and with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows; some windows now blocked. Segmental-headed window opening to the south-east gable end having paired one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Two segmental-headed doorways to the south-east elevation having red brick voussoirs, stone plinth blocks, and timber sheeted doors. Three-bay single-storey porch extension to the north-west having mono-pitched artificial slate roof with alternating courses of slates with chamfered edges and normal slates, cement rendered ruled-and-lined walls, square-headed window openings with timber casement windows, and recessed square-headed doorway with glazed timber door and glazed surrounds. Set back from road in extensive grounds on the west bank of the Termon River to the south-west of former mill complex (see 40850001). Site slopes from the west to the east towards the river. Short gravel and grass laneways to building from the west and from the south-west entrances. Located to the north of Pettigoe. Rubble stone boundary wall with rounded rock-faced coping over to road-frontage to the west and south-west. Gateways to the north and south ends of boundary wall comprising a pair of ashlar stone gate piers (on square-plan) having cut stone coping over with stone ball finials; wrought-iron flat bar gates.

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).

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 Ardnaglass.

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.

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

Name

Ardnaglass

Area

254,692 m² (25.47 ha, 62.94 acres)

Civil parish

Templecarn, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Pettigoe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Pettigoe electoral division: 368 people in 170 households; 76% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghafoy, Bircog, Kimmid, Pettigoe

Placenames

Ardnaglass 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.