Galdonagh
Galdonagh is a townland in the civil parish of Raymoghy, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Gallánach.
- Area
- 219 ha
- 541 acres
- Land parcels
- 103
- registered freehold, median 2,223 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
103 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Galdonagh, from 65 m² to 304,541 m² (30.45 ha, 75.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Galdonagh 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
5 Aug 2026N/a
(1) ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (2) RETENTION OF LOCATION OF THE SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AS CONSTRUCTED INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661466
17 Jun 2026Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSTRUCTED WITH DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED GARAGE / STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661114
20 Dec 2024Conditional
ALTERATIONS TO RAISED PATIO WITH BASEMENT STORAGE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 23/51215 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2462168
4 Jun 2024Conditional
BOARDING KENNELS, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460821
6 Dec 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH FIRST FLOOR STORAGE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351873
6 Nov 2023Conditional
ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351679
16 Aug 2023Conditional
(1) CONVERSION OF EXISTING ATTIC TO LIVING ACCOMMODATION, (2) CREATION OF A RAISED PATIO WITH BASEMENT STORAGE BELOW AND (3) INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351215
15 Nov 2022Conditional
(1) ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251856
9 Jun 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLNGHOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151139
4 Mar 2020N/a
ERECTION OF A LOG CABIN STYLE BUILDING TO PROVIDE SEASONAL ACCOMMODATION ANCILLARY TO EXISTING HORSE RIDING SCHOOL TOGETHER WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050263
12 Sept 2019Conditional
AN AGRICULTURAL SHED, SLATTED ANIMAL HOUSING, HARDCORE YARD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORK
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951384
26 Aug 2019N/a
AN AGRICULTURAL SHED USED FOR STRAW STORE, SLATTED ANIMAL HOUSING, HARDCORE YARD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORK
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951293
8 Apr 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A COVERED STORAGE AREA WHICH IS OPEN SIDED INTO EXISTING EXTERNAL YARD AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN LIEU OF MACHINERY STORAGE BUILDING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF:17/51747
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950474
17 Nov 2017Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF A MACHINERY STORAGE BUILDING LOCATED TO THE REAR OF EXISTING TRACTOR SALES SHOWROOM (2) EXTENSION OF EXISTING YARD TO PROVIDE ON SITE TURNING MANOEUVRES AND (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A BOUNDARY RETAINING WALL AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751747
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 Galdonagh.
Recorded monuments
- DG054-043 Bullaun stone
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.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1780–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached six-bay single-storey with attic level vernacular house, built c. 1800 and extended to the north c. 1870, having single-storey extension to rear (west). Now out of use. Pitched artificial slate roof (fibre cement) with some surviving rainwater goods, cast-iron skylights to west pitch, and with three rendered chimneystacks (one to either gable end and one to the north side of centre). Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings to main elevation (east) with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with margin glazing bars. Square-headed window openings to the north gable end at attic level having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway to the east elevation (offset to the south side of centre) having timber panelled door with bolection mouldings, timber columns supporting moulded timber lintel over, and with overlight. Set back from and parallel to road with remains of rubble stone boundary wall to south-west, grass verge to roadside. Located in the rural countryside to the east of Manorcunningham.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Galdonagh, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Galdonagh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Galdonagh, Manorcunningham11 sales
The townland
- Name
- Galdonagh · Gallánach
- Area
- 2,190,350 m² (219.04 ha, 541.25 acres)
- Civil parish
- Raymoghy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Electoral division
- Treantaghmucklagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 860 people lived in 282 households in the Treantaghmucklagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drumoghill, Dunduffsfort, Galdonagh Glebe, Lismoghry, Monclink, Ryelands
- Placenames
- Galdonagh 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.