# Tonagh, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Taughboyne, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,985,405 m² (198.54 ha, 490.6 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,267 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 11 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Taughboyne, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/taughboyne.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Killea, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15302 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52534 - Centre: latitude 54.956319, longitude -7.445313 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tonagh, from 276 m² to 601,689 m² (60.17 ha, 148.68 acres); 28 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1403447: 601,689 m² (60.17 ha, 148.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1403447.md - Parcel 5132321: 539,348 m² (53.93 ha, 133.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5132321.md - Parcel 1381804: 205,684 m² (20.57 ha, 50.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1381804.md - Parcel 4991812: 200,052 m² (20.01 ha, 49.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4991812.md - Parcel 1403438: 171,828 m² (17.18 ha, 42.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1403438.md - Parcel 1372079: 120,323 m² (12.03 ha, 29.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372079.md - Parcel 1343738: 44,836 m² (4.48 ha, 11.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1343738.md - Parcel 1335516: 25,719 m² (2.57 ha, 6.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335516.md - Parcel 1406461: 7,685 m² (0.77 ha, 1.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406461.md - Parcel 1369248: 7,473 m² (0.75 ha, 1.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369248.md - Parcel 1324807: 6,918 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1324807.md - Parcel 1393932: 5,173 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393932.md - Parcel 4874740: 3,981 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4874740.md - Parcel 5163171: 3,955 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5163171.md - Parcel 1427988: 3,434 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427988.md - Parcel 1391320: 2,890 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391320.md - Parcel 1343739: 2,567 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1343739.md - Parcel 1339926: 2,551 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339926.md - Parcel 1305455: 2,267 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305455.md - Parcel 1352777: 2,216 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352777.md - Parcel 3848033: 1,966 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3848033.md - Parcel 1311666: 1,812 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1311666.md - Parcel 4616879: 1,809 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4616879.md - Parcel 1334604: 1,509 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1334604.md - Parcel 1346840: 1,386 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346840.md - Parcel 3657300: 1,189 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657300.md - Parcel 4617058: 1,037 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4617058.md - Parcel 4871473: 962 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4871473.md - Parcel 3657299: 953 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657299.md - Parcel 4617064: 883 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4617064.md - Parcel 4787245: 687 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4787245.md - Parcel 1366150: 686 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1366150.md - Parcel 3657298: 596 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657298.md - Parcel 3657301: 573 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657301.md - Parcel 3657302: 523 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657302.md - Parcel 1364455: 424 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1364455.md - Parcel 1364460: 276 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1364460.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 11 applications, newest first. - 12 Jun 2025, Donegal County Council 2560993: Conditional. Retention. GABLE EXTENSION TO A DWELLING AND FRONT ENTRANCE PORCH. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560993/0 - 27 May 2025, Donegal County Council 2560848: N/a. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560848/0 - 17 Apr 2025, Donegal County Council 2560609: N/a. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560609/0 - 15 Aug 2024, Donegal County Council 2461253: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461253/0 - 23 Oct 2023, Donegal County Council 2351608: N/a. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF TWO POULTRY SHEDS INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351608/0 - 31 Jan 2023, Donegal County Council 2350107: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF A MODULAR PREFABRICATED CLASSROOM WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350107/0 - 26 Sept 2022, Donegal County Council 2251600: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING MAIN PUBLIC SEWER. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251600/0 - 26 Feb 2021, Donegal County Council 2150325: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING NATIONAL SCHOOL CONSISTING OF A CLASSROOM, STORAGE AREAS AND AN OFFICE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2150325/0 - 26 Jun 2020, Donegal County Council 2050840: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2050840/0 - 12 Jun 2020, Donegal County Council 2050757: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2050757/0 - 10 Sept 2019, Donegal County Council 1951364: Unconditional. Extension of duration. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951364/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tonagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG055-020: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG055-020----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Monreagh Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1700–1730, Regional interest, registry number 40905512, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40905512. 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, registry number 40905540, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40905540. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tonagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tonagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tonagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Tonagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carrigans: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrigans.md - Cloghfin: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cloghfin-50643.md - Cloon: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cloon.md - Dernacally: https://everytownland.com/donegal/dernacally.md - Derrymore: https://everytownland.com/donegal/derrymore.md - Glebe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glebe-51316.md - Kildrum Lower: https://everytownland.com/donegal/kildrum-lower.md - Monreagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/monreagh.md - Toberslane: https://everytownland.com/donegal/toberslane.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tonagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/tonagh