Aghadreenan

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghadreenan, from 146 m² to 407,376 m² (40.74 ha, 100.66 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 Aghadreenan 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.

• 4 Feb 2026Conditional

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2650010

• 18 Sept 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING HOUSE DAMAGED DUE TO DEFECTIVE (MICA) PRECAST CONCRETE BLOCKS, (2) RE-CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALTERATIONS FROM THAT OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. THE RELEVANT ASSOCIATED REPLACEMENT WORKS WILL BE CONNECTED TO THE EXISTING SITE SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561615

• 10 Jun 2025Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF TWO STOREY DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560956

• 11 Sept 2024Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF 6 NO. SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES ALONG WITH ACCESS TO SITE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. SITE WORKS TO INCLUDE THE CREATION OF A BUFFER ZONE FOR PUBLIC USE IN THE FORM OF GREEN LANDSCAPING

  Outline permission, 6 homes · Donegal County Council, 2461407

• 5 Sept 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF 6 NO. SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES ALONG WITH ACCESS TO SITE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. SITE WORKS TO INCLUDE THE CREATION OF A BUFFER ZONE FOR PUBLIC USE IN THE FORM OF GREEN LANDSCAPING

  Outline permission, 6 homes · Donegal County Council, 2461373

• 5 Jul 2024Conditional

  ROOFING EXISTING SILAGE PIT TO PROVIDE EXTENSION TO EXISTING SLATTED CATTLE SHED

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461029

• 22 Sept 2023Conditional

  (1) RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF EXISTING DWELLING, (2) REMOVAL OF EXISTING ENTRANCE AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW ENTRANCE TO SERVE 2 NO. DWELLINGS, AND (3) CONSTRUCTION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, SOIL FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351428

• 4 Oct 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151965

• 6 Jul 2021N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151351

• 19 Jul 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851113

• 6 Jul 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH PACKAGED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851052

• 28 Jun 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850998

• 16 Nov 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED AND CONSTRUCTION OF A SILAGE PIT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751731

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 Aghadreenan.

Recorded monuments

• DG017-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 20m ENE-WSW, c. 18m NNW-SSE. A subcircular earthen platform from 1.5m to 2.5m above the surrounding land. A low bank up to 1.5m in height circles the perimeter. There are two gaps in the bank, a 2m gap to the E and a 2m modern gap to the S. There is some modern disturbance in the interior. The site is located in good pasture land on a N-S ridge with wide views. There are steep falls to the E and W. 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

• DG017-017 Standing stone
  Description

  A standing stone .8m high × 0.5m wide; NW-SE. The date 1819 is incised on it. It is said locally that it was erected in the 17th century by the Dill family. It is also said to be an ogham stone but there is nothing visible to support this claim. Situated in a prominent position close to the crest of Crockastoller hill. 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

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular house with attic level, built c. 1820, having central flat-roofed windbreak porch to the front elevation (south-east), single-storey flat-roofed extension to the north-east, and with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed addition to the rear (north-west). Now out of use. Pitched flax thatch roof having overhanging eaves, metal pegs below eaves level and to gable ends for securing ropes over thatch, and having rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends (north-east and south-west). Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window opening having replacement timber casement windows and painted concrete sills. Square headed door opening to windbreak porch having battened timber door. Set back from road in own grounds to the east of Rosnakill and to the south end of the Fanad Peninsula. Detached four-bay single-storey outbuilding\byre to the north-west having pitched flax thatched roof with pegs below eaves level, rubble stone walls, and square-headed doorways with battened timber doors. Additional single-storey outbuildings to site having pitched corrugated with roof with raised rendered verges to gable ends, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Site approached via narrow tree-lined laneway from the east. Gravel forecourt to south-east.

• Ardroe Cottage, house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular house with attic level, built c. 1780, having central flat-roofed windbreak porch to the front elevation. Recently restored and now in use as a holiday home\rental property. Pitched thatch roof having pegs below eaves level and to gable ends for securing ropes over thatch, and having rendered chimneystacks and raised rendered verges to the gable ends. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings having six-over-six and six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway to windbreak porch having replacement battened timber door. Set back from road in own grounds to the east of Rosnakill and to the south end of the Fanad Peninsula. House reached by hedgerow-lined avenue from the east. Gardens and gravel forecourt to site.

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 Aghadreenan, 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.

No address of the register names Aghadreenan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Aghadreenan

Area

2,174,882 m² (217.49 ha, 537.43 acres)

Civil parish

Clondavaddog, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Rosnakill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

264 people lived in 99 households in the Rosnakill electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghadaghly, Ballykinard, Ballymagahy South, Ballymagowan Upper, Ballynashannagh, Cloghfin, Duntinny, Knockbrack, Rathgory

Placenames

Aghadreenan 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.