Ogherbeg
Townland in the civil parish of Killymard, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 279.5 ha
- 691 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 9,022 m² (0.9 ha, 2.23 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ogherbeg, from 20 m² to 156,910 m² (15.69 ha, 38.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Ogherbeg 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
16 Jun 2026N/a
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661103
15 Jun 2026N/a
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661098
29 Jun 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING WITH DETACHED GARAGE, ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561095
14 May 2025N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING WITH DETACHED GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560765
8 Feb 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150174
9 Nov 2018Conditional
DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE. DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING TREATMENT SYSTEM AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851723
24 Nov 2017Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 09/20047 AND 14/50114 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751773
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 Ogherbeg.
Recorded monuments
- DG093-003 Enclosure
Description
There is no trace visible of the single-ringed enclosure shown on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map. The topography on a ENE-WSW running ridge, would suggest an earthen structure. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ogherbeg.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, 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 Ogherbeg.
- 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 Ogherbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Ogherbeg
- Area
- 2,794,501 m² (279.45 ha, 690.54 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killymard, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Haugh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Haugh electoral division: 235 people in 76 households; 93% of households own 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, Lackcrom, Newtowndrumgornan, Tullynagreana, Winterhill
- Placenames
- Ogherbeg 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.