Tonagh

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tonagh, from 276 m² to 601,689 m² (60.17 ha, 148.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Tonagh 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.

• 12 Jun 2025Conditional

  GABLE EXTENSION TO A DWELLING AND FRONT ENTRANCE PORCH

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560993

• 27 May 2025N/a

  BUND WALL AND PERMISSION FOR PROPOSED ALTERATIONS TO A CONSTRUCTED ANAEROBIC DIGESTION (“AD”) PLANT (GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 13/51141, PL 05E.242700 AND PLANNING REF. NO. 19/51364 AND NON-MATERIAL DEVIATION) COMPRISING (1) CONSTRUCTION OF RECEPTION HALL EXTENSION, (2) PROPOSED WEIGHBRIDGE AND (3) MINOR RELOCATION OF PASTEURISATION TANKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560848

• 17 Apr 2025N/a

  BUND WALL AND PERMISSION FOR PROPOSED ALTERATIONS TO A CONSTRUCTED ANAEROBIC DIGESTION ("AD") PLANT (GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 19/51141; PL 05E.242700 AND 19/51364 AND NON MATERIAL DEVIATION) COMPRISING AN EXTENSION TO IN SITU RECEPTION HALL (TO ENCLOSE PLANT), MINOR RELOCATION OF PASTEURISATION TANKS, PROPOSED BOUNDARY FENCE AND OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560609

• 15 Aug 2024Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN AND GARAGE DESIGN, TO INCLUDE REPOSITIONING ON THE SITE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 22/51600

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461253

• 23 Oct 2023N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF TWO POULTRY SHEDS INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351608

• 31 Jan 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF A MODULAR PREFABRICATED CLASSROOM WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350107

• 26 Sept 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING MAIN PUBLIC SEWER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251600

• 26 Feb 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING NATIONAL SCHOOL CONSISTING OF A CLASSROOM, STORAGE AREAS AND AN OFFICE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150325

• 26 Jun 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL STORAGE BUILDING AND 5 NO. AGRICULTURAL SILAGE CLAMPS WITH ASSOCIATED HARD STANDING AREA, UNDERGROUND STORM WATER COLLECTION TANK AND SILAGE EFFLUENT COLLECTION TANK, CONSTRUCTION OF NEW AGRICULTURAL ACCESS AND AGRICULTURAL LANEWAY, ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND ADDITIONAL LANDSCAPING, ALL IN ASSOCIATION WITH EXISTING FARMING ENTERPRISE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050840

• 12 Jun 2020N/a

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL STORAGE BUILDING AND 5 NO. AGRICULTURAL SILAGE CLAMPS WITH ASSOCIATED HARD STANDING AREA, UNDERGROUND STORM WATER COLLECTION TANK AND SILAGE EFFLUENT COLLECTION TANK, CONSTRUCTION OF NEW AGRICULTURAL ACCESS AND AGRICULTURAL LANEWAY, ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND ADDITIONAL LANDSCAPING, ALL IN ASSOCIATION WITH EXISTING FARMING ENTERPRISE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050757

• 10 Sept 2019Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN ANAEROBIC DIGESTER FOR THE PRODUCTION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY AND FERTILISER INVOLVING THE CONSTRUCTION OF A PRIMARY AND SECONDARY DIGESTER WITH COLLECTION DOME, A CO-JOINING PUMP, TWO SEPARATE DIGESTATE STORAGE TANKS WITH COLLECTION DOMES AND PUMP ROOMS, AND OTHER STRUCTURES ASSOCIATED WITH THE OPERATION OF AN ANAEROBIC DIGESTER SYSTEM INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING: TWO FEED HOPPERS, PRE PIT, CHP BUILDING,ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION, FLARE AND BIOGAS BOTTLING UNIT. WORKS SHALL INCLUDE THE PROVISION OF A CONCRETE APRON, ALL DRAINAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 1951364

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 Tonagh.

Recorded monuments

• DG055-020 Standing stone
  Description

  It is thought locally that a stone, c. 6ft × 3ft × 2ft and now buried, may once have been standing. Situated on a shoulder of a low rise which slopes down SE to the River Foyle. 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

• Monreagh Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1700–1730 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Presbyterian church, built 1710, on T- plan, vestry to rear with boiler room below, remodelled c. 1840, renovated internally c. 1880. Pitched slate roof with decorative clayware pierced ridge comb, ashlar dentils to eaves, cast-iron rainwater goods, timber bargeboards to gables. Painted roughcast rendered walls with rendered parallel quoins and battered plinth. Date stone over entrance door reads ‘1644’. Square-headed window openings, label mouldings over, raised render surrounds, with paired ogee-headed timber sashes with crown glass quarries in cast-iron frames; lancet windows with Y-tracery to rear; quatrefoil rose windows to gables. Segmental-arched door openings with hoodmoulding over, with timber sheeted double doors and plain fanlights. Interior with galleries with timber panelled balustrades to each wing on cast-iron and timber columns, timber ribs to coffered ceiling with hammer braces to roof trusses on stone corbels, timber pews, timber boarded and panelled pulpit, memorials plaques to walls. Graveyard surrounding with memorial stones, rubble stone boundary wall with stone on end coping and painted roughcast externally, hoop iron gates, concrete wall to rear.

• Ulster Scots Heritage Centre, manse, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former Presbyterian manse on L-shaped plan, built c. 1880, having advanced gable-fronted bay to the west end of the main elevation (north) with single-storey flat-roofed canted bay window at ground floor level, entrance to central bay having shallow projecting doorcase, and with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed box bay window to the east end of the main elevation having gable-fronted half dormer window opening over. Two-storey and single-storey return to rear (south). Originally associated with Monreagh Presbyterian church\meeting house (see 40905512), now in use as heritage centre. Pitched natural slate roofs, artificial slate to return, having painted rendered chimneystacks to east and west gables with clay pots over, replacement rainwater goods over corbelled eaves course, decorative pierced timber bargeboards and timber finials to gables. Painted smooth rendered walls to front over smooth rendered plinth course having rusticated smooth rendered block-and-start plaster quoins to the corners. Roughcast rendered walls to side gables and rear return, cement rendered walls to rear of main body of building. Square-headed window opening to gable-fronted breakfront at first floor level having paired one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows; square-headed window openings to half-dormer opening and to central window at first floor level having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows; paired square-headed window openings to box bay window having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows; central square-headed window opening to canted bay window having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window. Square-headed window openings to side and rear elevations with two-over-two and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Central round-headed window opening to rear (south) having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Moulded rendered cornice over box bay and canted bay windows. Stone sills throughout. Central square-headed door opening having paired timber panelled doors with bolection mouldings, plain overlight, and with doorcase comprising rendered pilasters with roundel motifs having moulded render console brackets supporting moulded cornice\lintel over. Modern access ramp to doorway. Set back from road in own grounds to the west of Carrigans, and to across the road to the south of former associated church. Garden and lawned areas to site. Roughcast rendered boundary walls to road-frontage to the north. Gateway to the north comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having hooped wrought-iron gates. Yard to rear bound by limewashed rubble stone wall with a crenellated parapet over. Detached four-bay single-storey outbuilding to the west having pitched natural slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, limewashed rubble stone walls, dummy pointed-headed window to north gable end, and square-headed door and window openings to east elevation, set in shallow segmental-headed recesses having timber windows and battened timber doors.

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

At the centre of the townland of Tonagh, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tonagh.

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

Name

Tonagh

Area

1,985,405 m² (198.54 ha, 490.6 acres)

Civil parish

Taughboyne, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Killea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,802 people lived in 681 households in the Killea electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrigans, Cloghfin, Cloon, Dernacally, Derrymore, Glebe, Kildrum Lower, Monreagh, Toberslane

Placenames

Tonagh 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.