Haugh

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Haugh, from 20 m² to 146,125 m² (14.61 ha, 36.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Haugh 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.

• 11 Sept 2025Conditional

  REFURBISHMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING COTTAGE AS GUEST ACCOMMODATION ANCILLARY TO DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561564

• 2 Jun 2023Conditional

  RESTORATION / RECONSTRUCTION OF DERELICT COTTAGE AS GAMES ROOM AND STORAGE SPACE ANCILLARY TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTED TO THE EXISTING FOUL DRAINAGE SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350792

• 10 Mar 2023Conditional

  (1) REDEVELOPMENT OF EXISTING FOOTBALL PITCH TO PROVIDE NEW SOCCER PLAYING PITCH MEASURING 100 X 64M, (2) PROVISION OF 60 X 45M TRAINING PITCH, (3) PROVISION OF BALLSTOPS TO REAR OF GOALPOSTS AND (4) PROVISION OF FENCING TO EASTERN AND NORTHERN BOUNDARIES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350299

• 28 Mar 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF (1) A SINGLE-STOREY EXTENSION TO EXISTING STOREY AND HALF DWELLING HOUSE (2) A SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250519

• 6 Apr 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150579

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 Haugh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Haugh.

Architectural heritage

• St. Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Catholic church on T-shaped plan, built or rebuilt c. 1858, having five-bay nave to the west, transept to the north, and with two-stage tower to the east (on square-plan) having cut stone corner pinnacles and with slated spire over (added c. 1890). Single-bay gable-fronted entrance porch to the centre of the south elevation of the nave. Now no longer in use (replaced by modern church to the south built in 1984). Possibly containing fabric of earlier church to site (on Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of 1837). Natural slate roofs with moulded stone corbels at eaves levels, and having cast-iron rainwater goods. Cut stone Celtic cross finial to the west gable end of nave; raised verge to the east end of nave. Natural slate covering to spire having courses of fish-scale slates and with lucarnes, wrought-iron cross finial over. Roughcast rendered walls to main body of building having smooth rendered plinth course and smooth rendered eaves course. Ashlar construction to tower over chamfered ashlar plinth. Pointed-arched window openings to south elevation of nave having moulded rendered surrounds, hoodmouldings over, stone sills, and with timber multi-paned timber sliding sash windows with intersecting glazing to head. Square-headed window opening to the east face of tower at ground floor/first stage level having timber sliding sash window with margin glazing bars; pointed-arched window openings to second stage of tower having timber sliding sash windows; pointed-arched lucarnes to slated spire having timber bargeboards and timber louvers. Square-headed window openings the west elevation of nave, to transept, and to the east face of tower at ground floor level having either timber sliding sash windows or replacement windows; some opening s now boarded. Pointed-arched window opening to the south face of porch having moulded rendered surround, hoodmoulding over, stone sill and with four-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway to the east face of porch having render surround and timber door. Square-headed doorway to the south face of tower having timber doors. Set back from road in own grounds to the north of Donegal Town centre. Located adjacent to rural road junction. Site surrounded by rendered boundary wall. Pedestrian gateway to the south-west comprising a pair of chamfered ashlar gate piers/posts (on square-plan) having wrought-iron gate; vehicular gateway to the south-east having rendered gate piers (on square-plan) with mild steel or wrought-iron gates. Graveyard to site having three memorials; main parish graveyard to the west. Marian grotto to the east of tower having rubble stone construction. Post box (see 40909321) set into boundary wall to the west.

• Post box, 1922–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron ‘lamp box’-type post box, erected c. 1930, with curved head and with raised 'P&T' monogram in Gaelic script to base. Still is use. Moulded letter flap with moulded detailing below. Set into pier in rendered boundary wall surrounding St. Mary’s Catholic church (see 40909303) at rural road junction to the north of Donegal 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

About 1 in 5 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1433 (ZIP).

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

Name

Haugh · Haugh

Area

724,596 m² (72.46 ha, 179.05 acres)

Civil parish

Killymard, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Haugh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

235 people lived in 76 households in the Haugh electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumgornan, Drumroosk East, Gortlosky, Heneys, Winterhill

Placenames

Haugh 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.