Tirargus
Tirargus is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmacrenan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Tír Fhearghasa.
- Area
- 447.5 ha
- 1,106 acres
- Land parcels
- 105
- registered freehold, median 3,937 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 20
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
105 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tirargus, from 9 m² to 339,823 m² (33.98 ha, 83.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Tirargus 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 2026Conditional
ERECTION OF EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661101
16 Apr 2026Conditional
RENOVATION, EXTENSION & INCREASE IN HEIGHT OF EXISTING DERELICT COTTAGE, INSTALLATION OF A SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2650057
17 Oct 2024Conditional
EXISTING ENTRANCE/ACCESS AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ONSITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461644
22 May 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO FRONT ELEVATION OF EXISTING COTTAGE AND INSTALLATION OF NEW SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460747
22 Nov 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351781
31 May 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350772
15 Mar 2023Conditional
TEACH CÓNAITHE AGUS DABHACH SHÉARACHAIS A THÓGÁIL COMH MAITH LE GACH SAOTHAR FORBARTHA LÁITHREÁIN GAOLMHAR EILE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350319
11 Jan 2022Refused
ERECTION OF A ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING, NEW SITE ENTRANCE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250013
21 Apr 2021Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH A SEPARATE DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (3) CONNECTION TO PROPOSED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150711
21 Oct 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051562
7 Aug 2020Conditional
DWELLING HOUSE IN LIEU OF PREVIOUSLY APPROVED REF: 18/51024 AND PERMISSION FOR RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051085
29 Jul 2020N/a
DWELLING HOUSE IN LIEU OF PREVIOUSLY APPROVED REF: 18/51024 AND PERMISSION FOR RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051018
24 May 2020Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH FIRST FLOOR STUDIO; (2) RENOVATION WORKS TO EXISTING DWELLING CONSISTING OF REMOVAL OF FRENCH DOORS AND FORMATION OF A NEW CHIMNEY WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050599
22 Apr 2020N/a
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH FIRST FLOOR STUDIO; (2) RENOVATION WORKS TO EXISTING DWELLING CONSISTING OF REMOVAL OF FRENCH DOORS AND FORMATION OF A NEW CHIMNEY WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050522
27 Jan 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING SCHOOL BUILDING COMPRISING OF A MAINSTREAM CLASSROOM WITH ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050059
19 Mar 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK & DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950391
6 Mar 2019N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DETACHED GARAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950298
29 Jun 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851024
17 Jan 2018Conditional
(1) RETENTION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SLIGHT ALTERATION TO EXISTING ENTRANCE AS CONSTRUCTED AND (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850058
12 Jul 2017N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751107
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: Leannan River SAC 002176
- Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Akibbon And Gartan Lough 000158
Recorded monuments
- DG044-033001 Well
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.
- DG044-033002 Stone head
Description
Changed classification from stone head to redundant record as there is no paper file for this monument. It is not included in the SMR or the RMP or in the Archaeological Survey of Donegal. There is no documentrary evidence to explain why this stone head was entered into the database. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 January 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tirargus.
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 Tirargus, 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 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 Tirargus.
- 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
No address of the register names Tirargus with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Tirargus · Tír Fhearghasa
- Area
- 4,474,833 m² (447.48 ha, 1,105.76 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacrenan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Termon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 568 people lived in 189 households in the Termon electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bellville or Gartan, Boheolan, Carrick, Carrowtrasna, Cloncarney, Glebe, Kilmore, Loughaskerry, Milltown, Tirkillin, Tully Beg, Whitehill
- Placenames
- Tirargus 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.