Haw

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Haw, from 379 m² to 245,194 m² (24.52 ha, 60.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Haw 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.

• 2 Apr 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED TREATMENT PLANT AND POLISHING FILTER ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660560

• 1 Apr 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONNECTION TO PROPOSED TREATMENT PLANT AND POLISHING FILTER, ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660534

• 6 Mar 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED TREATMENT PLANT AND POLISHING FILTER, ALONG WITH ALL THE ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660362

• 19 Sept 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH LINKED SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE, TO INCLUDE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461482

• 11 Dec 2023Conditional

  EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A GARAGE FOR STORAGE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351901

• 17 Oct 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351561

• 10 Dec 2018Conditional

  RELOCATION OF EXISTING CONSERVATORY ONTO THE SIDE OF DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1851862

• 6 Jul 2018Conditional

  (I) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER, (II) RETENTION OF MOBILE HOME (UNTIL COMPLETION OF PROPOSED DWELLING HOUSE), AND (III) CONNECTION OF MOBILE HOME INTO NEW TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851037

• 25 Jun 2018N/a

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER, (2) CONNECTION OF MOBILE HOME INTO NEW TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (3) RETENTION OF MOBILE HOME (UNTIL COMPLETION OF PROPOSED DWELLING HOUSE)

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850988

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 Haw.

Recorded monuments

• DG055-015 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  A residential development at Haw, Churchtown, Carrigans, Lifford, was located immediately adjacent to the boundary wall of St Baithín’s/Taughboyne church (DG055-016001-) and graveyard (DG055–016002-), originally dating to the medieval period. The graveyard also contained the site of a holy well (DG055–015----). Testing of the development site by Maurice F. Hurley under licence No. 07E1073 revealed that it was composed of made ground and ground scarped back to bedrock in recent years. A dump of 19th–20th-century building rubble lay alongside the foundation of an 18th/19th-century wall. The artefacts included chinaware and plastic (Bennett 2010, 79). 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. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 18 November 2011

• DG055-016001 Church
  Description

  It is believed that this is the site of the early ecclesiastical foundation of Tech Baithin (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 406). The site at present consists of a modern graveyard (DG055-016002-) inside which is Taughboyne Church of Ireland parish church. Taughboyne Church (DG055-016001-): In 1622, a new parish church was near completion in St. Johnstown. Nonetheless, it was decided to rebuild the old one which was in a more central location (Royal Commission, 213). That this was done in 1627 under the direction of the rector Thomas Bruce, is evident from the inscription on a stone tablet 'Thomas Bruce, aedificavit restoravimus 1627' which was found under the aisle about 1887 (Leslie 1940, 128). Another plaque, now set above the N door, bears the remarkably similar inscription in false relief: AEDIF CVRA/THO BRVCE/RECTOR HVOVS ECCLAESIA/1627. Beside it, a tablet of comparable size bears a false-relief coat-of-arms sur-mounted by the initials TB; presumably those of the rector. The battering of the lower courses of the E gable may be part of the 17th century building. The church was repaired in the earlier 19th century (See Lewis II 1837, 599) and the windows and door are in the Victorian Decorated style. A carved head and two hood-mould stops, comprising relief carvings of lion-like creatures with vine leaf enrichment, are set in the exterior face of the N wall on either side of the door. Opposite it, and forming part of the pathway revetment is a 17th century memorial flanked by two sections of a horizontal hood-mould which as the profiles indicate, belong to the same window as the stops. These fragments are 15th century in character and undoubtedly belonged to the medieval parish church. St. Boyne's Well (DG055-015-) to the N of the graveyard is now filled in. The site is located on excellent land overlooking the River Foyle to the SE. A residential development at Haw, Churchtown, Carrigans, Lifford, was located immediately adjacent to the boundary wall of St Baithín’s/Taughboyne church (DG055-016001-) and graveyard (DG055–016002-), originally dating to the medieval period. The graveyard also contained the site of a holy well (DG055–015----). Testing of the development site by Maurice F. Hurley under licence No. 07E1073 revealed that it was composed of made ground and ground scarped back to bedrock in recent years. A dump of 19th–20th-century building rubble lay alongside the foundation of an 18th/19th-century wall. The artefacts included chinaware and plastic (Bennett 2010, 79). 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. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 18 November 2011

• DG055-016002 Graveyard
  Description

  It is believed that this is the site of the early ecclesiastical foundation of Tech Baithin (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 406). The site at present consists of a modern graveyard (DG055-016002-) inside which is Taughboyne Church of Ireland parish church. Taughboyne Church (DG055-016001-): In 1622, a new parish church was near completion in St. Johnstown. Nonetheless, it was decided to rebuild the old one which was in a more central location (Royal Commission, 213). That this was done in 1627 under the direction of the rector Thomas Bruce, is evident from the inscription on a stone tablet 'Thomas Bruce, aedificavit restoravimus 1627' which was found under the aisle about 1887 (Leslie 1940, 128). Another plaque, now set above the N door, bears the remarkably similar inscription in false relief: AEDIF CVRA/THO BRVCE/RECTOR HVOVS ECCLAESIA/1627. Beside it, a tablet of comparable size bears a false-relief coat-of-arms sur-mounted by the initials TB; presumably those of the rector. The battering of the lower courses of the E gable may be part of the 17th century building. The church was repaired in the earlier 19th century (See Lewis II 1837, 599) and the windows and door are in the Victorian Decorated style. A carved head and two hood-mould stops, comprising relief carvings of lion-like creatures with vine leaf enrichment, are set in the exterior face of the N wall on either side of the door. Opposite it, and forming part of the pathway revetment is a 17th century memorial flanked by two sections of a horizontal hood-mould which as the profiles indicate, belong to the same window as the stops. These fragments are 15th century in character and undoubtedly belonged to the medieval parish church. St. Boyne's Well (DG055-015-) to the N of the graveyard is now filled in. The site is located on excellent land overlooking the River Foyle to the SE. A residential development at Haw, Churchtown, Carrigans, Lifford, was located immediately adjacent to the boundary wall of St Baithín’s/Taughboyne church (DG055-016001-) and graveyard (DG055–016002-), originally dating to the medieval period. The graveyard also contained the site of a holy well (DG055–015----). Testing of the development site by Maurice F. Hurley under licence No. 07E1073 revealed that it was composed of made ground and ground scarped back to bedrock in recent years. A dump of 19th–20th-century building rubble lay alongside the foundation of an 18th/19th-century wall. The artefacts included chinaware and plastic (Bennett 2010, 79). 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. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 18 November 2011

Architectural heritage

• Taughboyne Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1620–1630 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding five-bay Church of Ireland church, dated 1627, renovated c. 1830, and containing medieval fabric. Pitched slate roof with projecting ashlar sandstone eaves course, replacement rainwater goods, having ashlar bellcote to west. Roughcast rendered walls with batter to base of east wall, mediaeval fragments above and to both sides of door include a plaque over inscribed ‘AEDIF CVRA/THO BRVCE/RECTOR HVOVS ECCLAESIA/1627,’ and beside it, a tablet of comparable size bearing a false-relief coat-of-arms surmounted by the initials TB. Carved head and two hood-mould stops, comprising relief carvings of lion-like creatures with vine leaf enrichment, set on either side of door. Pointed-arch headed, Y-tracery window openings with ashlar sandstone surrounds, crown glass quarries in cast-iron frames with coloured glass margin lights, three-light Decorated Gothic east window with block-and-start sandstone surrounds and stained glass. Pointed-arch headed door opening with ashlar sandstone block-and-start surrounds, recessed timber sheeted double doors. Interior with timber king post roof trusses, timber boarding to coved ceiling, timber pews, timber panelled reredos, carved limestone pulpit and lectern, marble baptismal font and war memorials. Set in churchyard with memorial stones, rubble stone boundary wall on two sides with wrought-iron gates with ashlar copings, hedging to remainder. Opposite church door, forming part of the pathway revetment, is a “seventeenth century memorial flanked by two sections of a horizontal hood-mould which as the profiles indicate, belong to the same window as the stops. These fragments are fifteenth century in character and undoubtedly belonged to the medieval parish church” (Lacy 1983).

• Corn Mill, mill (water), 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay two-storey former corn mill with external waterwheel to gable, built c. 1830 with two-bay extension to north-east, all now disused. Pitched natural slate roof, heavily overgrown, with stone projecting eaves course, brick eaves course to extension. Rubble stone walls heavily overgrown. Square-headed window openings with rubble stone lintels over, red brick segmental arches over, red brick reveals, timber framed fixed windows and blocked windows. Square-headed door opening, timber framed matchboard door. Detached building immediately adjacent to north-east with pitched corrugated roof, rubble stone walls with concrete block repairs. Detached two-bay two-storey over basement building to north with pitched artificial slate, remnant cast-iron and replacement rainwater goods, rubble stone walls, square-headed window openings, rubble stone lintels, yellow brick reveals, fixed timber framed windows. Square-headed door openings, railway track lintel, iron door. Detached outbuilding to east, monopitch roof, concrete block walls incorporating rubble stone walls of former kiln. Mill race to south.

• Bridge, 1770–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge, built c. 1800, carrying road over small mill stream. Semi-circular arches with rubble stone voussoirs. Random coursed rubble limestone walling with rubble stone on end parapet coping. Single carriageway deck over.

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 Haw, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Haw · An Há

Area

605,063 m² (60.51 ha, 149.51 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

Bready, Castlethird, Cross, Derrymore, Monreagh

Placenames

Haw 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.