Dunagard

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunagard, from 5 m² to 73,600 m² (7.36 ha, 18.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Dunagard 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Dunagard 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.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: North Inishowen Coast SAC 002012
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: North Inishowen Coast 002012

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dunagard.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1860, having flat-roofed windbreak porch to front (south), single-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to the west gable end. Round pitched flax thatched roof with chicken wire lattice and iron pegs, corrugated roof to byre, limewashed brick chimneystacks to gable ends and to the east side of centre. Limewashed rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane horned timber sliding sash windows; original four-light small window to rear with hinged wood panel to upper light. Square-headed door opening to porch having timber sheeted door with central light. Set in own grounds off road. Multi-bay single-storey outbuilding to the west having pitched corrugated roof, limewashed rendered rubble stone walls, and square-headed window and door openings. Located in the rural countryside to the north of Malin town.

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

At the centre of the townland of Dunagard, about 1 in 20 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 water.

Terrain model

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

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 Dunagard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Dunagard · Dún na gCeard

Area

1,182,885 m² (118.29 ha, 292.3 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

Ballykenny, Bree, Meedanmore, Urbalreagh

Placenames

Dunagard 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.