Navenny
Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal; in Irish Neamhnaigh
- Area
- 138.2 ha
- 342 acres
- Land parcels
- 419
- registered freehold, median 511 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 42
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
419 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Navenny, from 6 m² to 89,119 m² (8.91 ha, 22.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 41 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 Navenny 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
20 Apr 2026Conditional
(1) USABLE SPACE AT 2ND FLOOR, PREVIOUSLY GRANTED AS ATTIC SPACE UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 05/9300, (2) INCREASE IN THE EAVES AND RIDGE HEIGHT FOR THE GARAGE TO THE REAR OF THE HOUSE TO FACILITATE ATTIC STORAGE, ORIGINAL GARAGE GRANTED PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 05/9300 AND (3) COVERED CARPORT LINKING THE REAR OF THE MAIN HOUSE TO THE GARAGE BEHIND, ORIGINALLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 05/9300
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660675
21 Jan 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. SEMI DETACHED BLOCK CONTAINING 2 NO. 2 BED DWELLINGS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES
Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2660058
7 Jul 2025Conditional
(1) EXTENSIONS TO THE REAR OF EXISTING COMMERCIAL STORE AND SHOP UNIT COMPRISING OF ADDITIONAL STORAGE SPACE AND (2) DETACHED ANCILLARY STORAGE SHED, AND PERMISSION FOR EXTENSION OF EXISTING CONCRETE YARD AND TURNING / PARKING AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561159
13 Mar 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. TWO STOREY DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND FOUL AND STORM SEWERS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560354
13 Mar 2025Conditional
DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED GARAGE / STORE, VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS (PLANNING REF. NO. 16/51135 REFERS)
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560353
11 Mar 2025N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. TWO STOREY DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND FOUL AND STORM SEWERS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560334
11 Nov 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A FIRST FLOOR SIDE EXTENSION ABOVE EXISTING SINGLE STOREY GARAGE / UTILITY AND CONVERSION OF EXISTING GARAGE TO PLAYROOM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461800
12 Jun 2024Conditional
ALTERATIONS TO EXTERNAL FACADE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460887
30 Jan 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF 8 NO. DWELLINGS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND FOUL AND STORM SEWERS
Permission, 6 homes · Donegal County Council, 2460058
22 Dec 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF 36 NO. DWELLINGS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND FOUL AND STORM SEWERS
Permission, 34 homes · Donegal County Council, 2352015
9 Oct 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A REAR BOUNDARY FENCE REDUCED TO A HEIGHT NOT EXCEEDING 1.2 METRES AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351508
10 Mar 2023Conditional
ATTIC CONVERSION INCORPORATING ROOFLIGHTS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350302
8 Jun 2022Conditional
(A) A RETAINING WALL AND INFILLING WORKS RAISING REAR GARDEN LEVEL TO CREATE A MORE USEABLE AND ENCLOSED AMENITY SPACE FOR DWELLING HOUSE (B) A GARDEN POD INCORPORATING A HOME OFFICE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250998
27 Apr 2022Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SHED (2) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) EXTENSIONS TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, PROPOSED WORKS TO INCLUDE DEVELOPMENT OF AN OPEN CANOPY PORCH TO THE FRONT ELEVATION AND MINOR AMENDMENTS TO EXISTING WINDOW FENESTRATION (B) DETACHED STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250744
30 Aug 2021Conditional
(A) DEMOLITION OF 13 NO. PARTIALLY BUILT DWELLINGS AND 8 NO. PARTIALLY BUILT DETACHED GARAGES (B) CONSTRUCTION OF 24 NO. TWO STOREY DWELLINGS WITHIN 12 NO SEMI-DETACHED BLOCKS (C) CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC FOUL SEWER (D) CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC STORM DRAINAGE (E) PEDESTRIAN ROAD CROSSING ACROSS NAVENNY ST - L-3044-3 (F) ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS INCLUDING FENCING/RAILINGS, PUBLIC LIGHTING, PARKING, PLAYPARK, LANDSCAPING AND ROADSIDE FOOTPATH ALONG NAVENNY STREET.
Permission, 24 homes · Donegal County Council, 2151716
21 Jun 2021Refused
ERECTION OF A DETACHED STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING AND TREATMENT PLANT
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151217
21 Jun 2021Refused
ERECTION OF A DETACHED STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING AND TREATMENT PLANT
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151155
31 May 2021N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING AND TREATMENT PLANT
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151055
31 May 2021N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING AND TREATMENT PLANT
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151056
4 Feb 2021Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED GARAGE, WITH SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150151
11 Sept 2020Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PUMPING STATION ON THE SITE OF THE EXISTING NAVENNY PUMPING STATION TO INCLUDE NEW PUMP SUMP WET WELL CHAMBER; PROVISION OF NEW 300MM MINIMUM DIAMETER STORMWATER OVERFLOW TO DIVERT ALL OVERFLOWS TO THE BURN DAURNETT, INCLUDING STORMWATER OVERFLOW MEASUREMENT; NEW ELECTRICAL CONTROL KIOSK; EXTENSIVE SITE WORKS INCLUDING FLOOD PROTECTION MEASURES , SCREENING, NEW BOUNDARY WALL WITH RAILINGS, NEW ENTRANCE AND LANDSCAPING; DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING PUMPING STATION ASSETS AND A TEMPORARY WORKING AREA (2) UPSIZING OF APPROXIMATELY 300M OF RISING MAIN FROM 150MM TO 200MM INTERNAL DIAMETER ON NAVENNY STREET, STARTING IN THE ROAD APPROXIMATELY 75M NORTHWEST OF THE PUMPING STATION ENTRANCE, TO THE INTERSECTION OF NAVENNY STREET AND CHESNUT ROAD (3) APPROXIMATELY 150M OF NEW 375MM DIAMETER GRAVITY SEWER FROM THE JUNCTION OF NAVENNY STREET AND CHESNUT ROAD TO AN EXISTING MANHOLE LOCATED ON CHESNUT ROAD. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051276
8 Jul 2020Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DETACHED GARAGE AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS TO THE NORTH EASTERN AND SOUTH WESTERN SIDES OF DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050898
8 Jul 2020Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2050888
18 Feb 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH LOFT STORAGE TO THE REAR OF EXISTING PROPERTY
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050169
9 Dec 2019N/a
(1) REMOVAL OF EXISTING SUBSTRUCTURE PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF 05/60089 AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE (3) DEVELOPMENT OF A VEHICULAR ACCESS ROAD AND CONNECTION INTO MAINS SERVICES AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951910
The 25 most recent of 42 applications.
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC 002301
Recorded monuments
- DG078-045 Kiln - corn-drying
Description
A programme of assessment and testing was carried out at by Eoghan Kieran of Moore Archaeological and Environmental Services under licence No. 06E1116 at Navenny, Ballybofey Co. Donegal. The assessment was designed to fulfil planning conditions attached to two planning applications. The assessment area was divided into four areas, Fields A–D. Testing recorded the presence of significant archaeological deposits in the north-eastern corner of Field B. These deposits consisted of the remains of a corn-drying kiln and a burnt pit. Excavation of foundation trenches for three proposed houses in this area will have the potential to directly and negatively impact on these features and any other as yet undiscovered deposits in the area (Bennett 2009, 100). Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision : 17 November 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Navenny.
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 Navenny.
- 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
- Navenny, Ballybofey9 sales
The townland
- Name
- Navenny · Neamhnaigh
- Area
- 1,382,474 m² (138.25 ha, 341.62 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe South
- Electoral division
- Knock, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Knock electoral division: 1,922 people in 665 households; 76% of households own their home; 53% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybofey, Corgary, Dreenan, Glencovet, Knock, Sessiagh (O'Neill), Stranorlar
- Placenames
- Navenny 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.