Ardchicken

Area

32,801 m² (3.28 ha, 8.11 acres)

Buildings

2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 132 m².

Zoning

No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.

Townland

Ardchicken

Planning applications on this parcel

• 13 May 2026N/a

  WORKS TO PROPERTY, A PROTECTED STRUCTURE, RPS NO: 40909946 KNOWN AS MAGHERABEG HOUSE CONSISTING OF THE FOLLOWING: (1) PROPOSED CHANGE OF USE FROM AN EXISTING PRIVATE DWELLING TO SHORT-TERM GUEST ACCOMMODATION, (2) DEMOLITION OF NON-ORIGINAL EXTENSIONS TO THE REAR (NORTH-WEST) SIDE OF THE HOUSE, (3) ADDITION OF A NEW ORANGERY EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH OF THE HOUSE, (4) INTERIOR ALTERATIONS AND REFURBISHMENT WORKS TO THE MAIN BUILDING, (5) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO NORTH-WEST OF THE HOUSE TO INCLUDE UTILITY AND SERVICE SPACES, (6) ADDITION OF NEW BAY WINDOW TO THE NORTH OF THE HOUSE, (7) PROPOSED CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING OUTBUILDING IN REAR COURTYARD TO ENTERTAINMENT SPACE INCLUDING ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND THE ADDITION OF A NEW STORE TO THE SOUTHWEST, (8) CREATION OF NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE FROM R-267, (9) CREATION OF NEW SELF-CONTAINED RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION WITHIN AN EXISTING DETACHED OUTBUILDING ANCILLARY TO MAGHERABEG HOUSE, (10) REDUCTION IN LEVELS TO EXTEND GARDENS TO THE SOUTH-WEST, (11) WORKS TO THE GROUNDS WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF THE PROTECTED STRUCTURE INCLUDING DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND CONNECTION TO THE PUBLIC SEWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660858

• 11 Jun 2024Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE FROM LOFT STORAGE TO SELF-CONTAINED LIVING ACCOMMODATION ANCILLARY TO THE USE OF THE DWELLING HOUSE, INCLUDING PROVISION OF VELUX TYPE ROOFLIGHTS IN A DETACHED OUTBUILDING TO THE REAR OF MAGHERABEG HOUSE (WHICH IS A PROTECTED STRUCTURE REF NO. 40909946)

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460871

• 13 Jan 2021Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING FACTORY TO PROVIDE FOR ADDITIONAL CLEAN ROOM PRODUCTION/FACTORY AREAS, GENERAL STORAGE AND SERVICES BAYS WITH A TWO STORY ELEMENT CONTAINING ADMINISTRATION OFFICES, LABORATORIES, RECEPTION, TOILETS, PROVISION OF A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE ONTO THE ESTATE ROAD AND PROVISION OF ADDITIONAL CAR PARKING AND A NEW ACCESS ROAD AROUND THE SIDE AND REAR OF THE NEW BUILDING, CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY ESB SUB-STATION, CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING FOUL AND STORM WATER DRAINAGE NETWORKS, PROVISION OF A STORM WATER ATTENUATION UNDERGROUND TANK AND CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING MAINS WATER SUPPLY NETWORK. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL BE PHASED WITH PHASE ONE BEING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE STORAGE AND SERVICE BAY ELEMENT OF THE OVERALL BUILDING EXTENSION PROPOSAL AND STAGE TWO BEING THE COMPLETION OF THE FACTORY/PRODUCTION AREAS AND RECEPTION/OFFICES. ALL TO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED BOUNDARY TREATMENTS AND SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND CONNECTION TO ROADS AND SERVICES ALL AT THE (FORMER IDA) BUSINESS/ INDUSTRIAL PARK

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2150023

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 this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.

• DG099-010001 Religious house - Franciscan Third Order Regular
  Description

  Magherabeg Friary: founded in the 15th century for the Franciscan Third Order Regular by O'Donnell. The friary was occupied in 1601 by the forces of Niall Garbh O'Donnell supporting the English against his cousin, Red Hugh O'Donnell. It was subsequently in the possession of Sir Paul Gore (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 273; Treadwell 1953-5, 513). The ivy-covered ruins consist of a church 28.65m by 6.73m internally and the E range of domestic buildings. The walls are built of roughly-coursed, dressed, blocks with small pinnings; sections of this facing have fallen away, particularly along the interior S wall of the church. The church comprises nave and chancel without structural division. The N and S walls survive to a maximum height of c. 5.2m; most of the E and W gables have fallen. The E window is represented by the N splayed ingoing and a single moulded jamb-and-sill fragment. The window probably had three lights. The SE quoin of the church is obscured by fallen masonry. A large ragged gap about midway along the S wall and a corresponding opening opposite it in the N wall probably indicate the positions of windows. W of the gap in the S wall are the lower jambs, mullion and sill of a blocked-up two-light window with splayed ingoings. The pointed doorway in the S wall has a broach-stop-chamfered W jamb and the E jamb stones are damaged but retain a small bolt-hole in the interior rebate. The cracked lintelled rear-arch has modern iron supports; the fallen ingoings were rebuilt in 1981. The door has a stone sill and inner step; the latter was also partly rebuilt. The W gable has almost completely fallen and the exterior facing only survives on the N. It undoubtedly had a central door, the broken stoup for which remains. Some damaged chamfered fragments lying on the W wall may belong to the door. The doorway at the E end of the N wall is partly blocked-up. The jambs are chamfered but the head has fallen away; the splayed ingoings have a lintelled rear-arch. Beside it is a stoup (the lip is broken) set in a round-headed recess. E of this is a small wall-press. The domestic buildings to the N of the church are represented by fragmentary sections of the E wall, the N return and foundations of the NW corner. The E wall of this range which was two storeys high is continuous with the E gable, and rises from battered lower courses. A number of trees grow in the immediate area of this range, and one has partly dislodged the N section of the E wall. There were probably three rooms on the ground floor. Some 30cms of a vault running E-W projects from the exterior face of the N wall of the church. Below it, two corbels, 1.75m above ground level, and corresponding beam-hole in the interior corner of the E wall indicate the position of the temporary timber supports used in the construction of the vault. This room probably served as a sacristy; there is a wall-press at the S corner of the remaining 1m of E wall. Only the footings of the NE interior corner of the central room remain. The surviving 1.5m corbelled projection at the SE corner of the N room maybe the remains of a vault which ran N-S; the wall is here 3.5m high and has a wall-press on the interior. Beside it to the N are the remains of a splayed window, the N ingoing of which has been dislodged by a tree. (See also Muckross DG099-012-). 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

• DG099-010002 Architectural fragment
  Description

  In the yard at the rear of Magherabeg House is a rectangular scalloped sandstone capital (DG099-010002-) for three engaged columns, 45cms by 51cms by 34cms high. The front of the block is damaged and a basin, 27cms in diameter and 18cms deep, hollowed-out from the top. The capital is probably 12th century in date. It was found at the rear of a premises on the NE of the Diamond in Donegal town and was brought to Magherabeg House in 1980; its original provenance is unknown. 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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).

Ground and risks

Radon

At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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.

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