Veagh

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Veagh, from 171 m² to 596,812 m² (59.68 ha, 147.48 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Veagh 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.

• 19 Mar 2025Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT COTTAGE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560388

• 5 Apr 2017Conditional

  ALTERATIONS MADE DURING THE CONSTRUCTION OF PERMITTED EXTENSION/WORKS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750517

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 Veagh.

Recorded monuments

• DG054-009 Standing stone
  Description

  Marked as 'Standing Stone' on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch map and as 'Standing Stone (site of)' on the 3rd edition. Situated in good land on a NE-SW running ridge. 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

• DG054-010 Standing stone
  Description

  There is no trace of the 'Standing Stone' marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on the side of an NE-SW running ridge. 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

• House, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1890, having two-storey extension to the rear (south-east). Pitched natural slate roof with overhanging eaves with exposed timber purlins to gable ends, and with yellow brick chimneystacks to gable ends with rendered cornice coping over. Roughcast rendered walls over recessed smooth rendered plinth course. Segmental-headed window openings to main elevation (north-west) with painted concrete sills, smooth rendered reveals and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Central segmental-headed door opening with smooth rendered reveals, replacement timber panelled entrance door, and having plain fanlight over. Set back from road in own grounds in an elevated site in the rural countryside to the north-east of Manorcunningham. Complex of single-storey outbuildings to the rear (south-east) having pitched natural slate roofs, roughcast rendered walls, and square-headed openings with timber fittings. House site bounded to the west by roughcast rendered boundary wall with smooth rendered coping over. Gateway to the west having a pair of roughcast rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having projecting smooth rendered plinth to base and with moulded smooth rendered coping over, and with a pair of wrought-iron gates having decorative cast-iron finials. Tree lined avenue to approach.

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 Veagh, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Veagh · An Bheitheach

Area

1,675,865 m² (167.59 ha, 414.12 acres)

Civil parish

Raymoghy, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Manorcunningham, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,314 people lived in 475 households in the Manorcunningham electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 57% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balleeghan, Drean, Drumbarnet Middle, Drumbarnet Upper, Grawky, Highbank, Moneyhaughly, Sharon Glebe, Tirharon

Placenames

Veagh 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.