# Veagh, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Raymoghy, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal; in Irish An Bheitheach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,675,865 m² (167.59 ha, 414.12 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,218 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Raymoghy, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/raymoghy.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Manorcunningham, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15656 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52661 - Centre: latitude 54.969905, longitude -7.584981 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Veagh, from 171 m² to 596,812 m² (59.68 ha, 147.48 acres); 31 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1393170: 596,812 m² (59.68 ha, 147.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393170.md - Parcel 1421883: 329,597 m² (32.96 ha, 81.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1421883.md - Parcel 1409817: 162,115 m² (16.21 ha, 40.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409817.md - Parcel 1409683: 151,323 m² (15.13 ha, 37.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409683.md - Parcel 4851586: 117,864 m² (11.79 ha, 29.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4851586.md - Parcel 1414966: 101,834 m² (10.18 ha, 25.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1414966.md - Parcel 1339819: 77,614 m² (7.76 ha, 19.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339819.md - Parcel 1327892: 28,528 m² (2.85 ha, 7.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327892.md - Parcel 1392157: 22,516 m² (2.25 ha, 5.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392157.md - Parcel 1427243: 15,957 m² (1.6 ha, 3.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427243.md - Parcel 1372069: 9,407 m² (0.94 ha, 2.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372069.md - Parcel 1346127: 9,033 m² (0.9 ha, 2.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346127.md - Parcel 1350282: 8,549 m² (0.85 ha, 2.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1350282.md - Parcel 1358507: 7,549 m² (0.75 ha, 1.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1358507.md - Parcel 1343514: 2,959 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1343514.md - Parcel 1305020: 2,676 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305020.md - Parcel 1391410: 2,478 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391410.md - Parcel 1349775: 2,445 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1349775.md - Parcel 1375046: 2,386 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1375046.md - Parcel 1310861: 2,218 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310861.md - Parcel 1311087: 2,090 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1311087.md - Parcel 1356373: 2,065 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1356373.md - Parcel 1402724: 1,870 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402724.md - Parcel 1345972: 1,851 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1345972.md - Parcel 1378698: 1,622 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378698.md - Parcel 1427409: 1,544 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427409.md - Parcel 1334595: 1,374 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1334595.md - Parcel 5030727: 1,315 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5030727.md - Parcel 1427508: 1,231 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427508.md - Parcel 1402301: 1,208 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402301.md - Parcel 1318762: 961 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1318762.md - Parcel 1333779: 930 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333779.md - Parcel 1313828: 796 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1313828.md - Parcel 1358763: 735 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1358763.md - Parcel 1304077: 568 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1304077.md - Parcel 1306534: 538 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1306534.md - Parcel 1376685: 484 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376685.md - Parcel 1359510: 301 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1359510.md - Parcel 1353248: 171 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1353248.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 19 Mar 2025, Donegal County Council 2560388: Conditional. Outline permission, 1 home. DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT COTTAGE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560388/0 - 5 Apr 2017, Donegal County Council 1750517: Conditional. Retention. ALTERATIONS MADE DURING THE CONSTRUCTION OF PERMITTED EXTENSION/WORKS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1750517/0 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 Veagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG054-009: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG054-009----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG054-010----. 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 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) - House, 1880–1900, Regional interest, registry number 40905423, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40905423. 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. ## 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 Veagh, 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 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 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/veagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/veagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/veagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Veagh 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) - Balleeghan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/balleeghan-50137.md - Drean: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drean.md - Drumbarnet Middle: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumbarnet-middle.md - Drumbarnet Upper: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumbarnet-upper.md - Grawky: https://everytownland.com/donegal/grawky.md - Highbank: https://everytownland.com/donegal/highbank.md - Moneyhaughly: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moneyhaughly.md - Sharon Glebe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/sharon-glebe.md - Tirharon: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tirharon.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/veagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/veagh