Aughagault
Townland in the civil parish of Convoy, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 73.3 ha
- 181 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 59,195 m² (5.92 ha, 14.63 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aughagault, from 254 m² to 172,230 m² (17.22 ha, 42.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Aughagault 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
3 Oct 2025Conditional
(1) EXTENSIONS TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) DETACHED STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561720
2 Mar 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF A KITCHEN AND LIVING AREA EXTENSION AT THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, AND ALL ASSOICATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250373
8 Feb 2022N/a
ERECTION OF A KITCHEN & LIVING AREA EXTENSION AT THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250195
31 Jan 2022N/a
ERECTION OF A KITCHEN & LIVING AREA EXTENSION AT THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250103
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 Aughagault.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aughagault.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aughagault.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Aughagault.
- 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 Aughagault with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Aughagault
- Area
- 732,843 m² (73.28 ha, 181.09 acres)
- Civil parish
- Convoy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe South
- Electoral division
- Convoy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Convoy electoral division: 2,559 people in 926 households; 72% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aughagault Big, Gortadragon, Magheranappan, Treantaboy
- Placenames
- Aughagault 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.