Aghavannan Far
Townland in the civil parish of Killygarvan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
Parcel 1357457
- Area
- 1,025 m²
- 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 Far
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1889 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
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
- 69.9 ha
- 173 acres
- Land parcels
- 44
- registered freehold, median 2,389 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghavannan Far, from 167 m² to 199,997 m² (20 ha, 49.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Aghavannan Far 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
23 Jan 2026Conditional
ERECTION OF NEW AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660078
13 Jan 2026N/a
ERECTION OF NEW AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660029
4 Dec 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562148
31 Aug 2025Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH INSTALLATION OF ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561498
11 Apr 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF SINGLE STOREY GARDEN ROOM AND VERANDAH EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF EXISTING DWELLING
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350467
29 Jun 2022Conditional
(1) SIDE AND REAR EXTENSION TO MAIN DWELLING (2) CONVERSION OF OUTHOUSE TO RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION AND PERMISSION FOR (1) ERECTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO REAR OF HOUSE (2) INSTALLATION OF NEW WINDOWS AND MODIFICATIONS TO EXISTING WINDOW OPENINGS (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK (4) INSTALLATION OF NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251109
21 Jun 2022N/a
(1) SIDE AND REAR EXTENSION TO MAIN DWELLING (2) CONVERSION OF OUTHOUSE TO RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION AND PERMISSION FOR (1) ERECTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO REAR OF HOUSE (2) INSTALLATION OF NEW WINDOWS AND MODIFICATIONS TO EXISTING WINDOW OPENINGS (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK (4) INSTALLATION OF NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251076
28 Apr 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150764
26 Mar 2021Conditional
RELOCATION OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK CURRENTLY SERVING EXISTING NEIGHBOURING DWELLING AND ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150538
24 May 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SPLIT LEVEL TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, ASSOCIATED DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050621
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 Far.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghavannan Far.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Aghavannan Far.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1889 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Far with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Aghavannan Far
- Area
- 698,567 m² (69.86 ha, 172.62 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killygarvan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Rathmullan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rathmullan electoral division: 965 people in 357 households; 75% of households own 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 Near, Carnafeagh, Glencross, Gortcross, Kinnegar, Kintale, Millbrook, Rathmullan and Ballyboe
- Placenames
- Aghavannan Far 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.