Aghavannan Near
Aghavannan Near is a townland in the civil parish of Killygarvan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal.
Parcel 1330633
- Area
- 159,898 m² (15.99 ha, 39.51 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Aghavannan Near
Planning applications on this parcel
9 Jun 2025Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560952
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1889 (ZIP).
- 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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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 41.1 ha
- 102 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 1,703 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghavannan Near, from 32 m² to 159,898 m² (15.99 ha, 39.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Aghavannan Near 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
8 Aug 2026N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661484
30 Jul 2026N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661438
18 Dec 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DRY BED ANIMAL HOUSE WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562293
1 Oct 2025N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DRY BED ANIMAL HOUSE WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561711
9 Jun 2025Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560952
30 Nov 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351838
23 Oct 2023N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351610
3 Nov 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK WITH PUMP TO DISCHARGE FOUL EFFLUENT INTO EXISTING MAIN PUBLIC SEWER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051640
24 May 2020Conditional
DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING PURAFLO TANK, SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A SEPTIC TANK AND PUMP TO DISCHARGE FOUL EFFLUENT INTO EXISTING MAIN PUBLIC SEWER
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050653
29 Jun 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851003
8 Jun 2018Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850893
6 Jun 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SEPTIC TANK AND DISCHARGE FOUL EFFLUENT INTO EXISTING SEWER
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750867
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Aghavannan Near.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghavannan Near.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghavannan Near.
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, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Aghavannan Near, about 1 in 5 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1889 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Aghavannan Near with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Aghavannan Near
- Area
- 410,957 m² (41.1 ha, 101.55 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killygarvan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Rathmullan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 965 people lived in 357 households in the Rathmullan electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 47% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghavannan Far, Kinnegar, Rathmullan and Ballyboe
- Placenames
- Aghavannan Near 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.